 usmile4
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06-17-12 07:09 PM - Post#2238456
I know one of you out there is sneaking into my shop and stealing my parts. The latest is the bumpers from the lip of the hood. I had them installed to set the gaps and then I removed them in order to prime and paint and today I looked all over and can't find them. 
So whoever is sneaking into the shop and stealing my parts...cut it out! 
Bill Gommel
49 chevy Styleline (Sold), 51 Styleline 2 dr Special, 235 (from a 61 truck) bored .060 over, Dual Carter/Webers, Fenton Headers, T5- 5 speed with a 56 rear end. |
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2ndtime50guy
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06-17-12 07:33 PM - Post#2238468
In response to usmile4
I've been carrying around the tiny bent link and hair pin clip for my rochester carb in the cup holder of my car for 3 days. I finally went out and reinstalled it today so I wouldn't lose it! Now I can't seem to find my brass ID tag from the carb. I removed it to clean it and do some research and now someone has snuck in and stolen it too!
| I drove a '50 from the day I got my license thru college! Sadly, we sold it when I got married. I recently got the chance to buy the same car back from the man I sold it to; but the deal fell through and now I own a nicer one: 4 Dr Styleline Deluxe! |
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Happy Belair
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06-17-12 07:35 PM - Post#2238470
In response to usmile4
any you guys see or find my left side windshield pillar trim piece,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.  Tell it it needs to come on home, this hide and seek stuff is gettin mighty tiresome 
54 Belair 1067DTX, Roman red 327 Turbo350
54 Belair Hardtop, just bod off frame,work in progress
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 Cruzin Okie
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06-17-12 07:41 PM - Post#2238476
In response to usmile4
I told my wife the other day "I can't get anything done, I spend half of my time loosing stuff and the other half looking for it.
Maybe that's my problem, someone is steeling my stuff. I just thought it was my age.
Johnnie
Johnnie
1950 styleline deluxe sports coupe, 350 cid, TH 400, nova rear end. Gen IV Vintage air.
John 3:16
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fbama73
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06-17-12 08:03 PM - Post#2238493
In response to Cruzin Okie
Someone stole the whole bottom of my car! But it wasn't any of you guys, it was that b***h Mother Nature!
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 davidchristopher
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06-17-12 08:11 PM - Post#2238499
In response to fbama73
LOL! Read my last post on "No Turning Back Now"...
It must be something in the air. Or water. Or in the beer.
1951 Chevrolet Styleline Special. (350 4 Muncie '55 Driveshaft CE crossmember Heidts Mustang II front suspension, 3:10 Posi)
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Cruzin Okie
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06-17-12 08:13 PM - Post#2238500
In response to davidchristopher
David, it sounds like you've been working in my garage.
Johnnie
Johnnie
1950 styleline deluxe sports coupe, 350 cid, TH 400, nova rear end. Gen IV Vintage air.
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 motthollow
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06-17-12 08:27 PM - Post#2238507
In response to Cruzin Okie
Just came up from the garage after painting my firewall. Which one of you came over last night and took my stainless firewall mount bolts that I had stored in one of my dozens of yogurt cups? I know they were here last month!
"None of my cars will ever be finished... just that some are further along than others."
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brokenhead
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06-18-12 03:49 AM - Post#2238569
In response to motthollow
I only have a 2 car garage, and I swear I have walked 113 miles around and around looking for every single item I need next.
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old51sedan
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06-18-12 04:25 AM - Post#2238576
In response to brokenhead
Gosh it's good to read this post, I thought I was the only one who was losing there mind. Some little dude is staying awake nights traveling around the country screwing with us, he must have enought parts by now to build a few cars of his own. 
1951 styleline 2dr deluxe
Original 51 plate, Dealer Tag, Documents
58,000 original miles, second owner
1954 PG 235, rear axle, Power Steering
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arnieg141
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 06-18-12 04:49 AM - Post#2238581
In response to old51sedan
seems like ALOT OF OLD TIMERS DIEASE SETTING IN
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gjwach
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06-18-12 05:32 AM - Post#2238594
In response to arnieg141
Parts sneaking away aren't my problem. It is the tools. And Im not even talking about you guys sneaking in during the night to wisk them away. You are doing it while I am in the garage and actually working on the car. I will gather everything I think I need, place it all on my rolling work cart. I will get to work with one tool and pop it off the airline to grab another and it ain't there. Waste a half an hour looking for it and then the cycle repeats throughout the day.
Stop moving my tools around!
| Greg: 54 Red & White (well will be someday) Hardtop being done as original (except 12 volt and disc brakes) and loaded with options (i.e. original pwr steering, pwr seats, autronic eye, sunvisor, spot light, acc lighting and a continental kit) |
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Happy Belair
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06-18-12 06:29 AM - Post#2238613
In response to old51sedan
Gosh it's good to read this post, I thought I was the only one who was losing there mind. Some little dude is staying awake nights traveling around the country screwing with us, he must have enought parts by now to build a few cars of his own.
Yeah, didnt Johnny Cash mention this oncet?
54 Belair 1067DTX, Roman red 327 Turbo350
54 Belair Hardtop, just bod off frame,work in progress
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cederholm
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06-18-12 06:33 AM - Post#2238614
In response to gjwach
When I was doing the 12v conversion on my car I bought the two resistors and DA plug from Speedway. Knowing that I wouldn't be getting to the conversion right away I put everything on my bench for safe keeping. A month goes by and I'm ready - no parts!  Kids did you see these parts? no!  Wife?? NO! WIFE WIFE WIFE??? NO! NO! NO! (she has a history of moving my stuff)
Fuming and blaming the wife I reorder the parts. Get them installed and two day after find the Homedepot bag with the home suplies for a project I was avoiding. ...and there were my electrical parts. 
Speedway was nice enough to issue credit for the return and it only cost me a dinner out with the wife. 
...but if you guys see my carburetor linkage clip I'd appreciate getting it back.
~ Carl
Carl E. Cederholm
Brooklyn NYC
'53 Deluxe MoreDoor, triPPPle Rochesters, Fenton exhaust, dual Porter mufflers, 3" drop, 12v, and Offenhauser shinny bits! |
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davidchristopher
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06-18-12 06:42 AM - Post#2238618
In response to cederholm
A couple of weeks ago, I spent a solid hour looking for the 9/16 box wrench I had in my hand...
1951 Chevrolet Styleline Special. (350 4 Muncie '55 Driveshaft CE crossmember Heidts Mustang II front suspension, 3:10 Posi)
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 62chevy427
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06-18-12 06:58 AM - Post#2238623
In response to usmile4
happens all the time. once you lay a part down and go back to get it,it is gone. may take days for someone to bring it back.
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Mike JW
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06-18-12 07:01 AM - Post#2238624
In response to 62chevy427
Usually its the Not Me who took it.
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 2blu52
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06-18-12 08:26 AM - Post#2238662
In response to davidchristopher
A couple of weeks ago, I spent a solid hour looking for the 9/16 box wrench I had in my hand...
I do that with my glasses!! 
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itsa56
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06-18-12 09:07 AM - Post#2238679
In response to 2blu52
I was going to post something here but I forgot what it was!!! It'll come to me in awhile.
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VANDENPLAS
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06-18-12 09:53 AM - Post#2238695
In response to itsa56
Maybe it's an Italian thing, but when I buy a new tool I brake it's legs so it can't run away
And when I get a new part I bring it peacefully into the garage and show it the old rusted, dented and mangled
Part and tell it " of it knows what's good for it it will stay on the shelf were I put it"
The one the one thing I always run out of and never have enough of is hardware ..... Nuts, bolts, clips etc always go missing or I'm always short just one!
Every mother on Earth gave birth to a child.Except my mother,she gave birth to a legend .
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56sedandelivery
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06-18-12 09:59 AM - Post#2238698
In response to VANDENPLAS
My problem? I can't find my nephew! He has to change the fuel filter on the 51 Bus Coupe, and do some carb work.  Butch/56sedandelivery.
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davidchristopher
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06-18-12 12:13 PM - Post#2238769
In response to 56sedandelivery
Lost a 5/16ths fine thread set screw for the steering. On a whim I went into the hardware store 25 yards from my house, and bless their inventory-loving hearts, he had some.
Now if only I could find a 1/4" fine thread shoulder bolt. Worst case, I'll grab a 1/4" coarse, cut it down and re-thread it.
1951 Chevrolet Styleline Special. (350 4 Muncie '55 Driveshaft CE crossmember Heidts Mustang II front suspension, 3:10 Posi)
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one4dad
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06-18-12 03:34 PM - Post#2238851
In response to usmile4
You know I have bought the same brass fitting at least three times and........well you know the rest of the story.
Oh by the way I cleaned up my shop saturday and they still didn't show up
Bill
Bill Wilson - 51 styleline Deluxe 2 door three speed , fentons and offy 2 carb manifold - is now a 235
Also a 1950 Chevy 2 door styleline deluxe, great patina , no running gear |
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2blu52
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06-19-12 05:42 AM - Post#2239035
In response to one4dad
One last comment, a couple of years ago I needed my hacksaw, spent the entire morning (seemed like it)looking for it. Finally jumped in the car and headed 10 miles into town and purchased a new one. Got home walked into the garage and there was my old one laying right there in plain sight. Had to be gremilins.
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gjwach
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06-19-12 05:54 AM - Post#2239043
In response to 2blu52
Gremlins = Wives With Honey Do Lists? You be the judge.
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OLD CAR
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06-19-12 10:04 AM - Post#2239123
In response to usmile4
I know where my tools and parts go when I do a test drive on the freeway I hear my tools and parts slide out the bottom of the car and then I see them in my rear view on the freeway but there is to much traffic for me to stop and pick them up because I don't want to get killed for a few tools and parts. I just go home and drink a beer or two and look at my 1959 high school year book that I bought 53 years late on E-Bay.
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OLD CAR
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06-19-12 10:08 AM - Post#2239125
In response to usmile4
I find my Christmas tree light bulbs when I hear them crunch when I steep on them on the floor and thats when I learn that the bulb does not work anymore.
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motthollow
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06-19-12 08:49 PM - Post#2239319
In response to motthollow
Just came up from the garage after painting my firewall. Which one of you came over last night and took my stainless firewall mount bolts that I had stored in one of my dozens of yogurt cups? I know they were here last month!
The above was posted 6-17-12. You guys are off the hook. I took off the tarp that I wrapped the car up in while I painted the firewall and the yogurt cup with the missing bolts was on the front floorboard... just where I left them!! Photos on my website will be updated soon. Next: front floor repair and 4 wheel disc brake installation. Lots more after that: new wiring, front core support, interior, cut the roof off. (whaaaat?)
"None of my cars will ever be finished... just that some are further along than others."
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swbatt
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06-20-12 06:41 AM - Post#2239396
In response to arnieg141
OLD TIMERS DIEASE
Alchoheimers
Junior
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 Belair54HT
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06-20-12 09:48 AM - Post#2239448
In response to swbatt
When I am looking for that item, tool, or part that someone took, this happens to me,
AAADD!
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=6oHBG3A BUJU&a...
lol
I don't like beer, I LOVE BEER!
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