Thanks Pat
I zone out when I'm doing rails, doing a gazebo next.
I love driving through there they have 1930s stock cars sitting around downtown there is a moonshine festival there every year with a huge car show. I saw a 63 Galaxy with a 427 nascar motor, street legal Amazing cars.
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You're very-productive! The railing will look great in white, good going on the fabrication.
That was a good turn by the p-u truck prior owner giving you a call on the remaining parts. I doubt many people would bother with that. You made a good impression on him. Also when you beat someone up on buying the truck, in this 'last remaining parts' instance, I bet a lot of guys holding those parts would say, 'F__'em!'
There is a guy here in south Florida who is a $$$$ attorney, he had a couple of urban warehouses filled with his hobby collection of cars and motorcycles. As-in, 'red cars with two-seats from Maranello,' vintage English-framed motorcycles with Japanese 1 liter inline-4's, a set of every-year Bonnevilles and I ain't talkin' Pontiacs; Bimota's, and a couple of this century NASCAR cars for track days. He had two guys I know who are retired Yamaha dealership mechanics maintaining all this for him.
As I understand it, his new wife wanted to go in a different direction, as-in one-horsepower kind, and he liquidated everything, buildings too.
The '63 Galaxie sounds like a fun car, but I suspect to make it live in the street, it would need some attention to the running gear, as-in lower C.R. pistons and a softer cam, etc.
I had an acquaintance here in the Ft. Lauderdale area who used to run his own automotive shop, I stopped-in one day to see what was going on, and he had a Ford Starliner with a SOHC 427 in the engine bay! I always liked that auto design, it was very-clean in appearance, I liked it better without the chrome & black-ribbed rear quarterpanel and just a 3/4-length from the rear narrow chrome spearwhich ran horizontally at the height of the top of the rear wheelwell. This is a Starliner, but not that exact car.
