Show off yer Vintage thingy with wheels

[Mitty38]

Sorry it is a 1937 Silver King. So not technically vintage according to the tractor show guys for another 5 years. So just an antique.
Had to take a pick of an old pick. So excuse the poor quality.
The tractor is under construction, so the only recent photo I could have taken would be of a pile of half restored parts.
Motor does run and is finished now. Rims and tires are done.

This old girl was a large part of my childhood. It helped teach me to work, maintain equiptment, and drive.
The last of the Hercules crank model engines. Every single part of this tractor except for the electrical system was 100% Ohio made.

 

[Snakeoil]

Our 24' get-outta'-Dodgemobile, and no illegal fireworks and dog soothing abode till the 6th.
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IT'S COUSIN EDDIE!!!

I'd wondered where you'd gone to.

 

[Snakeoil]

Sorry it is a 1937 Silver King. So not technically vintage according to the tractor show guys for another 5 years. So just an antique.
Had to take a pick of an old pick. So excuse the poor quality.
The tractor is under construction, so the only recent photo I could have taken would be of a pile of half restored parts.
Motor does run and is finished now. Rims and tires are done.
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This old girl was a large part of my childhood. It helped teach me to work, maintain equiptment, and drive.
The last of the Hercules crank model engines. Every single part of this tractor except for the electrical system was 100% Ohio made.

Here is the rest of the story. http://www.silverkingtractors.com/Articles/History1.htm

 

[richhodg66]

Had a very nice 55 Chevy 2 door. 327 Vette engine. Painted Vette metal flake gold. Big tires in back. Craiger spoke mags.....
While I was in the Green Machine a friend and is BIL changed registration tag on it. Faked a bill of sale and off it went.

Is this person still alive?

You are most definitely a better man than I. Had that happenned to me, I would have obsessively devoted every waking moment to making his life miserable and terrifying until he was on the other side of the grass.

 

[Maven]

I have two friends who are "motörhead's," One is a professional mechanic; the other is a now retired (just the other day in fact) math teacher. Either one can take a junker, rebuild it, and make it run to say the least. The math teacher used to convert 1966 - 68 Camaros into Firebirds,and my mechanic friend has been working on a 1957 Belair (?) "gasser" that he rebuilt from the ground up (chassis). He also rebuilt and upgraded the engine so that it now puts out something like 550 hp. It will be worth fortune when he completes it.

On another note, I saw a 1951 Studebaker convertible in mint condition when going and returning from the range this afternoon.

 

[Bret4207]

Just an Epi L.P. copy and ESP bass. They work fine, nothing fancy. Fingers pretty worn/sore after todays practice play along. Gotta keep arthritis away.

I stunk pretty bad BEFORE the arthritis came along, now I'm just pathetic, but I find it relaxing and I'm still learning new stuff, so I keep at it.

 

[Bret4207]

Sorry it is a 1937 Silver King. So not technically vintage according to the tractor show guys for another 5 years. So just an antique.
Had to take a pick of an old pick. So excuse the poor quality.
The tractor is under construction, so the only recent photo I could have taken would be of a pile of half restored parts.
Motor does run and is finished now. Rims and tires are done.
View attachment 28199
This old girl was a large part of my childhood. It helped teach me to work, maintain equiptment, and drive.
The last of the Hercules crank model engines. Every single part of this tractor except for the electrical system was 100% Ohio made.

Nice! There's one Silver King up this way I know of, but it's a tricycle front end. Was restored back in the 90's and is due for fresh paint these days. Not a lot of them around anymore.

 

[Bret4207]

This is the extent of my vintage things with tires lately. I added some bearing supports to the pto drive on my 1937 (or so I'm told) dump box.

 

[RicinYakima]

I found this one in a little museum in Ohio, Ford's original "A" from 1903. One of four known to exist and one of the three that runs. The weekend before I got there they started it up and ran it up and down the farm road around the museum.

 

[462]

IT'S COUSIN EDDIE!!!

I'd wondered where you'd gone to.

I've no idea who Cousin Eddie is.

 

[Mitty38]

I've no idea who Cousin Eddie is.

Took me a moment
. Reference to thee National Lampoon Vacation movies.
Cousin Eddie, and his dysfunctional family, always lived in a camper or a motor home after the first movie. Came visiting in one during Christmas vacation. Chevy Chase was about to snap, mentally go off the deep end, with a shouting mad man rant. Then his cousin, who always caused him extra stress, pulled up in a motor home. Blew his Air horn, then stepped out the door. Chevy looked up, gave that totally off the deep end look and said," Hey look it's cousin Eddie!".

 

[Winelover]

I was thinking more along the lines of the little boy in The Munsters.

 

[Snakeoil]

Mitty nailed it. I thought everyone knew who cousin Eddie is just because they play Christmas Vacation non-stop around Christmas time. Eddie is a classic character played by Randy Quaid. As I understand it, he really did not want to play the part again in Christmas Vacation, but Chase talked him into it. He is probably one if not the best character in the entire movie. Here he is pumping out the gray water tank on his motorhome while visiting the Griswolds in Christmas Vacation.

I don't have a motorhome. But if I ever did, I think I'd frame this photo and hang it on the wall as a conversation piece.

 

[462]

Okay, got it. In real life, Quaid is as weird as Cousin Eddie.

 

[Winelover]

Motorhome is like a boat..................big hole you throw money into. Had 24 foot 93 Tioga, C-Class, that I order new. Kept that til right before we moved. Donated it to a Veterans' Charity. We dry camped on property leased for hunting, all year round.



Before that we had a 80 Trans Van, B-Class that we used as a second vehicle, in addition to traveling and hunting. We kept that till we ordered the Tioga. I prefer the maneuverability and ease of finding a place to park it. Being only a little larger than a full size van.

 

[Snakeoil]

Well, we have seem to have lost our momentum for wheeled thingies. I have a few more to share. Here is my '65 BSA A65C. This was a weak moment on CL in December several years ago. Boredom drives purchases and I really just went to look at the bike for something to do. Then I saw it and realized I was leaving with it. Well, not exactly. But left a deposit and picked it up later that week.

Very rare BSA. It is a Rocket with a Rev Counter or tachometer in Yankee terms. I only found it listed in one book on BSAs and it was just a single line item in a long list of models. By pure coincidence, a friend by my camp has exactly the same model. He thought it was a Thunderbolt, but the C suffix would be a T for a T-bolt. He has a tach, too. Probably one of my favorite bikes to ride.