Recent content by Hemihead2

Beautiful craftsmanship and attention to detail. You never fail to impress.

Great video, Jack. Your vision of what a work space should mean resonated with me. When I bought a property with a 1200 sq. ft detached garage, it was with the same thoughts I had in making it the place to work on projects. No way is mine as nice or well thought out as yours, but your video...

Thomas - I seem to remember back when you started the construction of this amazing home, you set up a camera to eventually have a time lapse video of the process. Am I remembering correctly?

Congrats, Jack! Looking forward to the stories of the weekend.

Changing the plugs in a Sunbeam Tiger (Ford 260 V8 in an Alpine, if you're not familiar with it), while not as difficult as described on some of the other cars mentioned here, it had an access hole in the driver side foot well to get at the rear plug on that side of the engine. Remove the rubber...

(Or the one "Once the pilot has finished carving his initials in the runway...") Or "Please remain seated until Captain Kangaroo in the cockpit hops us the rest of the way to the gate"

Holy ****. Just got back from a holiday vacation to read about this whole episode. So glad for you, Jack, that it didn't have a worse outcome. I'm missing the first joint of my right index finger and a shaved tip of the right middle finger due to moving faster than I was thinking. Not from a...

Don't know if anyone else has used this, but I found that a small drop of 3 in 1 oil on the final step of the double flare could guarantee a successful result.

Happy New Year Thomas and Chris. Looking forward to following your endeavors in 2015.

Happy Anniversary, you two!

About time you showed up on here, mate!

Congrats, Thomas, on the retirement. I pulled the plug 5 years ago and never looked back. I joke with friends who ask me how I like retirement by telling them "You wake up in the morning with nothing to do and when you go to bed at night, you're not done". a never ending list of projects that a...

Enjoyed the ultimately successful fight with bureaucracy story (sadly all too frequent) and, better, was seeing the build move forward. Looking forward to the updates.

The only sad part of the weekend at that Smokers meet was when the Alcohol and Beverage Control folks (no longer in existence) caught us minors with some beers in the parking lot between rounds, made us pour them out and left, telling us to "have a good time". Today, we'd have been hustled off...

The circled LP album cover is titled Bakersfield '64 which a recording of the 1964 Fuel and Gas Championships drag race meet held in..........Bakersfield, California. Yes, it's just a recording of the sounds of the cars and dragsters at the drag strip as they ran down the track. A friend of mine...