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Doodlebugs. My dad talked about one that a local farmer had (in western Oklahoma). They had connected a second transmission behind the first one, only reversed. That gave them (if I'm not confusing myself, with what little I can remember of it) some really low range gearing, in both forward...

Paint it yellow with Photoshop??

I skipped ahead bit by bit in places, but this was an interesting video. Maybe especially about the shrinking disk, because that's something of a more recent development, something I've heard of, but hadn't ever seen used. When I was working on the dents in the roof of my 46 Plymouth (someone...

I grew up in Oklahoma, but in the humid north east part (north of Tulsa). These deals down work there - just makes it than much more humid. But out in central-west Oklahoma (like Enid area, on west) they work very well. On a trip out to California in around 1960, my Dad bought one for the...

More like a carousel pony.

If you want it done right, either do it yourself, or watch it being done. One thing is, if you do it yourself, then don't like the way it turned out, there are two main advantages: You didn't pay to have it done, and if you want to kick the rear end of the guy who done it, he's right handy.

People often say that it's cheaper to buy a vehicle that has already had the work done, because "You can never get your money back, and forget about your time." But a lot of the cars that look great on the outside are actually ones that should have a sign on them that says "Whatever you do...

The real news story in this case was that this pickup was sitting in backed up traffic, between two tractor trailer rigs. A third semi plowed into the back of the one behind him, and so hard that it compacted the full-sized pickup, and still shoved the front semi so hard that it crashed into...

I had high PSA reading for years, till the Doc finally stated right out that I needed to do the TURP surgery. (TransUrethral Resection of the Prostate) I was getting up MULTIPLE times during the night, with desperate need to urinate. (One night it was around a dozen times, and no matter how...

Reminds me of an old post card I have with the three monkeys on it - Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. (Did I get the last one right?) Anyway, I saw a 'meme' recently that had it all rolled into one - a monkey looking at a smart phone. (I have one, but use it mainly for business, and...

I wasn't clear in my comments - I took that guy to be talking about annual mileage - from one year to the next, after initial registration of the vehicle. And I didn't know that you could do anything with the computerized odometers. But I remember from back before drill motors had a reverse in...

I watched the video from this link earlier today. (It has already been locked out for comment on another old car forum - too much politics, they say.) But my impression of the video is that it's got a lot of scare tactics in it. Sure, all this might happen someday, but the part about not...

That reminds me of what my Uncle said after going through an Oklahoma tornado. (It destroyed the entire farm except the ground cellar they were all hiding out in.) He & my aunt were just visiting from California for my sister's wedding, and he said he prefers earthquakes, because while they...

For awhile there was an agricultural development mission organization right next to our missionary center in Brazil, just a stone's throw from the banks of the Rio Madeira (outside Porto Velho, Rondonia). An anaconda swallowed a calf whole once, and dogs more than once, too. Out in the...

Black round fire starters. (Our county has an "amnesty day" once a year, too, but tires are not accepted.)

I've often wondered how that was done. (I was imagining cutting and welding the axles while in a lathe.)

Someone could buy up some land right across the state line along the major highways, and open warehousing operations. The out-of-state trucks could unload there, then the businesses in California could come get their stuff in their "electric golf carts" (like that one.... :D). Warehousing...

There's a guy around here that set a (I think) 37 Dodge on a 4 X 4 frame. It sets up so high that when you first see it, it looks like a car sitting on a trailer. (I haven't looked at it up close, but I don't think he cut the floor at all - just built a frame to fit between it and the donor...

Couple of years ago my wife gave me a Kobalt rolling tool box for Christmas, also bent & dent. It's obviously not a Snap-On, but their boxes are pretty sturdy. (The drawers are even soft-close, as if that really matters out in the shop.)

I am from Dutch ancestry, but my people (Mennonites) left there in the 1600's already (due to religious persecution), settling in the Danzig area of Prussia, which is now part of Poland. There are also surviving windmills there, as they settled in a swampy flood plain, developing it into farm land.