Had a great visit with Jay Arrow on Monday. Thanks for the excellent hospitality in your beautiful state. Lots of interesting and historical things to see, not to mention his super fine collection of old Fords. As much as I love 57 Fords, I have to admit, my favorite of all of them was the black Thunder Road 40 Ford. Such an awesome old car. Dont get me wrong now, the 57 e code business coupe is right there with it. We took some photos and I tried to upload them here but they were too big. I don't have a way to resize them here so I will do it this evening when I get home. Again, thank you for your hospitality during my visit. Made a working trip into a really good time.
That is great! I hope to meet Jay if I ever get back up in those woods...he's not too far from my home area., and my sister lives just a few towns over.
A Southerner and a New Englander, hmmm....any problems communicating? It's almost like two different languages....I haven't talked to you, James, but I have talked to Jay..he sounds like I did 40 years ago.
Jay Arrow is a straight shooter James! A super great guy! I have really enjoyed my visit with him as well and really want to meet again!
I have never met Jay but he helped me with a trunk lock part and I won't forget to pay it forward when I can. I really appreciate all on this forum.
I've had the pleasure of dealing a few parts back and forth and some nice phone conversations and emails, he's a super guy. I think about him everyday when I grab my steering wheel :003:
careful guys..don't be too nice, he's liable to be reading this.
budding bromance.....
lol..The language thing is funny..The waitress at the restaurant asked me, "You're not from Massachusetts are you?".I just grinned and said, naw, lol...It was fun. She was from "Baston", she said anyway, that I was to pack my cah out front. I told her Jay was driving, so it was all good, lol.
At the beginning of December, James came to Mass. on business. After renting a car and getting settled in, he made the long drive over 200 miles round trip to visit me and see my junk collection. In the very few hours that we had, we did manage to drive around a little in a couple of the cars. I took him for a drive along Savery Avenue, America's first divided highway. We finished the evening off by visiting Dave's Diner. It's one of those old stainless steel diners from the 50's. James was the one that the waitress kept picking on about talking with an accent, not me. Around here , I talk normal. HA HA. We had a great time. It's too bad that we had less than an hour of daylight. Jay
I talked with Jay on the phone once....if that counts! LOL!
Quote from: hotroddonnie on 2014-12-08 18:13
I talked with Jay on the phone once....if that counts! LOL!
Did you try to talk him into a straight axle? LOL
No! He would have probably hung up on me.
Quote from: hiball3985 on 2014-12-08 18:29
Did you try to talk him into a straight axle? LOL
Did you need an interpreter Donnie?
LOL!
Quote from: hotroddonnie on 2014-12-08 19:24
No! He would have probably hung up on me.
Jeff...I think that it was Donnie who talked me into making my car into a gasser. It took me a long time to find a big enough tire to lay against the quarters so I could scribe a line for torching out the the radii.
Jay!Watch out for that Hotroddonnie,He is T R O U B L E !
Jay's THE man, guys !
He was kind enough to send me a part I didn't even ask for :003:.... ;)
Well I start wondering if I'll ever understand a word, when we will meet ?
I think we'll use our own language, that even the waitress won't get....except for if she's Bavarian ;)
I keep asking for his 57, He has not sent that part yet.
NOW THATS A GASser!
Quote from: lalessi1 on 2014-12-09 21:23
NOW THATS A GASser!
I helped Jay build that one :003:
Quote from: hiball3985 on 2014-12-09 22:13
I helped Jay build that one :003:
Jim
That's right. Jim is the guilty party who did that conversion.. I hope that you saved the pieces off the car I might want to put it back to as original again. Jay
Fianlly was able to find and resize the pic of me and Jay's fine 57 on the first divided highway...cool photo, thanks for that Jay.
Cool Photo. A little fuzzy but.....
Are you back home James? I'm curious what part of my home state you were working in.
I was actually working in Westfield, at Barnes ANGB. It was only an hour and a half or so drive over to Carver. Too bad it was already 345 when I got there, only had less than an hour of daylight left. Yeah, it is a cellphone photo with minimal lighting, couldn't be helped. With good light, my phone takes great pics, when starting to get dark, or inside, not so much. Gonna get a Note 4 soon, see if it improves.
that pic is way cool. we can see it all, Ford friends, a terrific scenery and Jay's E code business sedan. that is more than anybody could ask for !
Actually it was very close to dark out and when I took the same picture with my camera, it was all dark when I downloaded it onto the computer so I deleted it. When I took that picture of James, his camera made everything nice and bright. These new toys are very confusing to me. James set it and all I did was push the button. That visit from James sure was nice.
This is the other car that James and I took for a drive that night.
Beatiful car, Jay. What's the drivetrain?
Jay,Does that car run on "White Lighting"?
Quote from: RICH MUISE on 2014-12-19 00:25
Beatiful car, Jay. What's the drivetrain?
Rich
The car is an old survivor with a stock rebuilt 59Ab flathead and is mostly in as original condition with matching serial no./v.i.n. Usually the transmission gets changed at some point and that's the end of the matching number and who even cared about that back in the day. It was owned by one of my customers and I did the repairs and serviced it for him for years. I always had a struggle with him to leave the car as it is. He was always wanted me to change the engine to a later model Ford and even wanted me at one time to put one of those horrible off shore things into it. He also wanted me to change the interior to something modern and I refused.. It still has the original mohair with no rips in it. So this one managed to not get hot rodded.
Quote from: Jeff Norwell on 2014-12-19 05:39
Jay,Does that car run on "White Lighting"?
No Jeff.
It's retired from the moonshine business. I need to have the History Detectives document that story.
Here it is driving to the the most recent movie in Cohasset last year. I couldnt drive both cars to the site so they transported the convertible and I followed it in the 40. During the movie I drove the 40.
Jay...that's awesome...I didn't know you were a movie star, sir.
Quote from: RICH MUISE on 2014-12-19 19:15
Jay...that's awesome...I didn't know you were a movie star, sir.
No Rich... All I did was drive it up and down the street for them while they were filming.
Jay we want you to be a movie star.
Quote from: 57redwhitered on 2014-12-22 20:29
Jay we want you to be a movie star.
HA HA That's not about to happen but it's kinda nice when they ask to put our cars in movies.
It's a WWII submarine movie. The captain of the American sub would have had a 40 Ford. I know the German speaking captain of the German Sub. When he came for the 40, he saw the 34 they wanted that one also. They changed the script to include the 34 cabriolet and that was the American captain's wife's car. The house in the picture would have been the American captain's house.
( In real life, that house is the home of the grandmother of American who played the part of the German captain.)
During WWII cars in Mass. had to have their headlights blackened out with just a little slit for light. I blackened out the 40 lights but with the short notice I didn't do the 34.
So when did the filming take place, and what was the name of the movie?
I have a friend out here in Texas that had two '57 4 dr customs in a Walt Disney movie as police cars. That was years ago, but he still has those two cars as they were painted black for the movie.
I hope when somebody meets me it hits 33 posts!!!! LOL!
Rich
The filming took place last August.
Some of the scenes were done in Cohassett Ma. and and some in Battleship Cove in Fall River Ma. Do you remember those places?
The name of the movie is Subconscious.
I don't know how to make a hyperlink but you should be able to find it by typing in
Battle Ship Cove Fall River Mass. and Subconscious movie by Georgia Hilton.
glimpse of both cars in TRAILER
http://subconsciousfilm.com/
I thought you were talking about a car trailer! Sometimes there is just no accounting for my literal acuity.... :iamwithstupid:
Quote from: gasman826 on 2014-12-23 10:39
glimpse of both cars in TRAILER
http://subconsciousfilm.com/
WOW!!! Thanks a lot I never saw that.. Jay
that "trailer" is Hollywood lingo. I bought a 51 Chevy Belair HT 2 years ago that was a former movie car. It was used is a Kevin Kostner movie "THE WAR" it was also used in another movie and a TV series. The car was parked out side the owners home when the home cought on fire and burned . The paint on one side and the back were bubbled up from the heat and the curved back window shattered. He drove the car to his farm and parked it behind the barn where I bought it 10 years later.
Barry