Recent content by DustyMojave

I tried to repair a couple of Craftsman floor jacks for a friend who uses them in his race car restoration shop. I found that Sears does NOT handle any repair parts for them and I didn't find anyone else who had any either. Out of the 4 jacks he had bought, only 2 are still working after less...

Sylmar...Where I grew up! The name means "Sea of trees". That refers to the olive trees. Sylmar during the 1st half of the 20th Century was the World's Capitol of Olives. You would think that would have been somewhere in Greece or Italy. But no! Right here in the San Fernando Valley of SoCal...

"You can't have too much money." "You can't have too much fun." "You can't have too many toys." And you can't have too big of a garage! (Until it comes to paying for it, paying for heating/cooling it, sweeping it, and paying taxes on it.

An old friend of mine is a machinist. He had a 2,000 square foot shop in Burbank, California. He lived about 5 miles away in an apartment. California's taxes and other business costs were killing him financially. So he bought land next to the airport in Carson City Nevada, built a new 2-story...

30 x 40 is a good size of shop. I suggest you look into steel buildings. A buddy of mine bought a 30 x 50 steel building fro $1,000. He just had to go 80 miles and dismantle it and haul it home. $6K worth of slab and footings, electrical by a friend and a building permit later and he had a 30 x...

Welcome from the other side of the planet...The right-side up side that is... I love GT40s.

What's really rather odd is that the 1st 2 responses to my thread are both from OZ! I had a brother-in-law from NZed and have another from Perth. HOTFR8T We DO have Falcons in common. And I could have had a 49 F1 heirloom from my grandfather, but had way too many projects already, including...

Thanks guys! HOTFR8T I like that list in your sig. Mine looks more like: - 61 F100 Integral Cab LongBed - 428CJ/C6 - Close to 700K Miles - 61 Falcon 4-Door Wagon - 1 Owner - 170" 6 - C4 - Plans for V8/8"/Granada Discs - 58 VW Baja Bug - Known it since the day bought new, My 1st car - Full Cage...

Hello! I'm a guy who has been involved in motorsports all of his life. My parents met at a sports car race in 1953. I started working on race cars as a small child. And started helping my folks work as race officials around the same time. My occupation is Fabricator. And no, that doesn't mean...