A nice Saturday morning drive

hiball3985 · 2013-06-22 15:33

The wife and I took a little drive two towns over to go to their car show that is held every Saturday morning. This was my first time there and there was about 50 cars. I was looking to catch a guy who runs around locally with a black custom 300 but he wasn't there. After looking at all the cars we continued to another location that the wife wanted to go and when we parked I decided to try to lock the doors for the first time only to discover the locks are in upside down

, it never ends, another thing to add to the list. The wife wanted to take a picture and insisted I be in it, something I usually try to avoid

57 Ford Kustom · 2013-06-22 16:14

Nice! Tim

BWhitmore · 2013-06-22 22:28

Jim -nice to see you enjoying your Ranchero. I took mine on a 100 mile trip today when it was about 85 degrees (freeway driving). The car ran cool and the A/C worked great.

hiball3985 · 2013-06-22 22:40

Thanks guys, as much as I enjoy working on it, it was nice to spend some time with the steering wheel in hand rather then a wrench.

Bill, that air must be nice on these warm days that will soon be getting warmer. I put a Vintage Air system in my '60 panel years ago but I doubt I'll ever get one in the Ranchero.

RICH MUISE · 2013-06-23 08:17

Now that's a great pic! Ranchero looks awesome. I for one like seeing a face and a name tied to a forumn "handle".....wish more of the guys would do it. I just got back last night from a car show also...only mine was two states over rather than 2 towns...and unfortunatly not in my '57. I met Al (57dohc) at the NSRA show in Pueblo, Co. I carried my camera around for 5 hours and hardly took any pics!

hiball3985 · 2013-06-23 08:28

Now that I think about it Rich, it is nice to see a face and name. At one time another forum for one of my hobbies had a section for members to post their picture, it started out great but then seemed to fade away. I've only met one member here, BWhitmore, and a fine gentleman he is.
We had the camera with us at the car show but didn't take any pictures, there was a good variety of cars but nothing that really interested me enough to take any shots.

LAUDY57 · 2013-06-23 10:34

Hiball, it's nice to know someone else's locks were upside down! I agree with the face thing, I've seen Rich's mug a few times and now yours, so here's a pic yesterday with my "new friend" (hint; I don't have a mustache). I'm kind of hesitating about posting this but maybe this forum could have a separate section for mugshots with their cars, I'm sure others have opinions.
This was at the 1st Vancouver Classic Car auction which was a great show and shine but not so good auction, I guess in order to get the auction car count up they had to allow too many reserves which made for not many cars sold. We left a little early to catch a ferry but they were running late and hadn't got through the day's allotment of half the cars (approx. 120), did get to see a rare Dodge Hemi Charger go for 100K though. The money crowd wasn't there, they'll have trouble convincing owners to consign next year -if they have it. Lots of older clubs showing which was nice but only a few 57's.

hiball3985 · 2013-06-23 11:26

Excellent picture, thanks for posting it, it is good to see a face. I haven't looked into the lock situation yet but I'm guessing they have the left and right sides reversed? I can't think of any reason to do this.

LAUDY57 · 2013-06-23 11:51

Yup, they're reversed, the actuating lever on them can also be reversed so that if someone didn't know which side was up they will still work. Rich had a good idea and there were some posts in the tech section, "springs again".

rmk57 · 2013-06-23 13:19

The money crowd wasn't there, they'll have trouble convincing owners to consign next year -if they have it.

I heard the PNE signed a three year contract with Dueck Chevrolet, so at least two more. I think the green on green color was holding the price down on that Charger. Beautifully restored though.

Randy

LAUDY57 · 2013-06-23 14:07

Contract is good to know, I'm sure they'll work things out better. Hard the first time.

JPotter57 · 2013-06-28 08:58

That is a cool Ranchero...love the red/black combo.

RICH MUISE · 2013-06-28 10:44

Great pic Lorne...Is that Dennis or a Dennis-look-alike?
Rich

LAUDY57 · 2013-06-28 12:10

He's the real deal Rich. He was just wandering around looking at cars so I asked if I could get a picture with him. Seems like a nice guy. Of course, giving the camera to my wife means I now have a 1 second movie of him and me as well (at about 45 degrees LOL).

hiball3985 · 2013-06-28 12:24

Quote from: JPotter57 on 2013-06-28 08:58
That is a cool Ranchero...love the red/black combo.

Thank you. The body work and paint was done by the previous owner, I wasn't that crazy about the combo but it's growing on me, I would have preferred all black. I'm slowly chipping away on the mechanical work which it need badly. It's no show car but it is making a good daily driver.

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