Great looking twin carb set up.
Thank you
Simon! Here's to hot showers and cool hot rod parts.
Oh...heavenly memories of the past. I had a twin Offenhousen manifold with Stromberg's on it for my blue flame 235. But it wasn't as shiny as yours.
Terrick, I can still remember thinking "if only it was an Offenhauser" when I bought that Edmunds Custom manifold.
You're very welcome Bob, and thank
you for sharing you're world with us (and putting a smile on our faces that must make co-workers or family wonder what we're up to).
Mark, thank you for your many kind remarks!
Very nice job on the twin carb setup too.
And that one as well
Mark.
Bob,
Can't say it any better.
You did an excellent job!
Thank you
Jon!
Thanks Bob on the info on the roll of sandpaper. After DAing the hood of the SL, I ordered the same sanding block kit as yours along with a roll of paper. I may have to bring my cart down so you can work your magic.
Nice resto on the carb/manifold setup. I'm sure it's cruising the highways and byways.
Stewart, glad the sanding info was useful and bring that cart on down -- can't promise it will be exactly the same as mine because I always seem to second-guess my decisions.
Not sure what happened to the carb setup. The guy on the H.A.M.B. who bought it for his '59 Chevy stopped posting so I never saw it installed.
Bob
No thanks required. Your posts are jewels of wit and information, and it buoys my day just reading them, even if I don't post all the time.
Lyndon
I agree with the sentiment, and appreciate the candour.
Lyndon, we may not have great minds but we do kinda think alike!
Well that drags me out of lurk mode. I actually have to thank you.
Have to confess I often just scan through the odd thread sometimes reading a bit but mostly just seeing what people get up to. Looking for inspiration and sometimes stopping to share some. Enjoying the scenery as life rushes by.
First time through I must've thought, "just another car guy" till I stopped and read the backstory and discovered the context. I had to go back and start from the beginning. It wasn't about what was missing but more about everything that wasn't. I never felt like I could contribute to this thread. Yes, I went through some dark places in my life but you remind me that sometimes I wish I could do it again just so I could do it a little better, forgetting about what's lost and focus on what I still had.
However as Lyndon puts it, don't give up that candour or your refreshing perspective on the human condition.
Like that! Sums it up. The great equaliser - I could be an astronaut, a rocket scientist and that look just brings me right back to earth! Secretly I high five my son when he gets that look even though he did great, just to keep the recognition and the high going a little longer. Boys like that sort of thing!
Guster, thank you so much for the kind words and for taking the time to comment!
I am happy to say I have been to New Zealand but sad to say it was only twice and only a week each time. I could easily spend a couple of years. Most of my time in Auckland was spent inside a building listening to and giving speeches at a conference but I did get to walk around downtown.
Our week using Christchurch as home base on the south island was all tourist time and I have to say we met the kindest and friendliest people imaginable. We arrived the night before our four friends and the room we booked wasn't available. The motel clerk arranged a room in the motel next door for the night. The next morning the owner of the first motel apologized and insisted he drive us to the airport in his van to pick up our friends. When we later mentioned wanting to go see the snow fields, he suggested Mount Hutt -- his good friend owned the ski resort and could set us up. We decided not to tempt the plaster-cast sport but had fun consuming hot drinks and making friends with a flesh-eating parrot. The snow was a big deal to one of our friends who grew up in Puerto Rico and Florida and had only seen snow a couple of times. On the way to Mount Hutt we stopped to verify directions at a petrol station and the attendant offered to lead us there in his car! I think he just wanted to see the bloke with no left arm shift gears in the van -- my friend from the US rode in the passenger seat and shifted while I pedaled and steered -- it was definitely Bob's yer Uncle.
When we mentioned whale watching the next day, the owner said he's like to arrange it because he knew a Māori guide who could take us much closer to the whales so we had an experience like none other -- up close and personal with teenage Sperm whales that were bigger than the boat -- all six of us said "We need a bigger boat!" at the same time.
Back in Christchurch we walked to a restaurant near our motel and passed a used car lot. The owner of the lot was closing up but spent more than 20 minutes with us discussing some of the neat cars he had that weren't available in the US. He even answered my wife's question about the lack of window drapes or blinds in the homes along the highway -- he pointed to the snow-capped mountains and green valley behind us and said no one would want to block those views.
Although I was used to not tipping for service at every meal while living in Australia, our guests were not. They couldn't get over the sign in the Christchurch airport that read something like: "In New Zealand we are paid to do our jobs so please don't tip."
I almost didn't dare to stop over to catch up on your thread after being over on Lyndon's and taking several minutes to recover from your post.
You're one of the great ones here and it's us that need to thank you for sharing your life. Not the other way around
Dan, I'm trying to behave.
You are one of the great ones yourself and thanks for all the visits to my tower-climbing-free thread.
Bob, that set of carbs are to die for. Well done.
Regards
Steve, it was hard to let it go but my wife rejected my decorating suggestion -- my train clock stayed but the carbs had to go.
Glad to have you back
Lyndon! Like I told Dan, I'm trying to behave.
Nice job and profit on the carbs and intake
Thank you
BF!
FYI... Count me firmly in the Bob's stories "makes you smile" crowd. 
