Morning coffee

[lalessi1]

My wife and I along with two, possibly three, other couples are planning a trip next September to see LSU play Wisconsin at Lambeau Field. We are looking to rent a house in the general vicinity possibly on a lake for a few days. Any leads would be greatly appreciated.

[RICH MUISE]

Sounds like a neat trip. Any luck on finding your house on a lake?
Connie and I are leaving for Phoenix this afternoon. It's a day earlier than planned. Looking forward to a big cruise/show on Central on Saturday, and the always good pavilion cruise in Scottsdale Sat. night. I think this trip we'll get to spend a few hours around Flagstaff and take a few day trips out of Phoenix. I've always wanted to see Sedona.

[hiball3985]

We went through Sedona a few years ago. We enjoyed the scenery but as far as Sedona its self it is just a high $$$ tourist trap, not our cup of tea  We did enjoy the fish hatchery in that area but we are a strange pair  Either way, have a great trip..

[RICH MUISE]

Different strokes for different folks I guess...we just got back from Sedona a short while ago and the 4 of us were totally in awe of the place. I've been in touristy spots all over the country, and I'd be hard pressed to come up with another spot as beautiful and enjoyable as this was for us. I think my wife and I will be doing Sedona a lot.
Yesterday was pretty neat also. Woke up at 5:30, left for N. Phoenix and the second Saturday swap meet at the Socal speed shop. Met Chip ("need louvers?)from the Hamb...recognized his t-bucket from the long going "bucket of ugly" thread. Nice to put a face with a name. From there I went over to the Central Cruise and spent a good 3 or 4 hours there. Did meet a '57 Ford owner. I had seen the car before, but this was the first time they were with the car. From there I went to a speed shop in N Phoenix I just found out about while at Central, then killed a few hours around Scottsdale and then did the Pavillion Cruise until about 8pm..long day, enjoyed the heck out of everything.

[RICH MUISE]

It's a different world here in Phoenix from what most of us are use to. I was reading an editorial in a Socal/Arizona car oriented newspaper, and the editorial began....."Finally!!! Summer is over and the really good car events are finally starting to happen"

[RICH MUISE]

Passing some info read on the Hamb today......Napa has come out with a new line of motor mounts using "virgin rubber" instead of recycled rubber. I don't know what their initial offerings are, but hopefully will include some of the stuff us Ford guys use. I hope this results in longer lasting mounts than what alot of guys have been dealing with in recent years.
That's the good news...now some not so good....
Antique Auto Supply in Arlington, Tx. is no longer. Apparently the owner got sick and is confined to a wheelchair, forcing the sale of the inventory. The really disheartning part of the sale is the way it happened. Apparently some guys from Nebraska bought the whole lot of mostly NOS stuff. That's 6 warehouses.....I've been there on several occasions. They reportedly had a number of dumpsters brought in and literally filled them numerous times only saving what they wanted to keep. The rest got sent to the dump. Apparently as word got out locally, at least some of the stuff was saved by dumpster divers. Rather sickening I think.
Also a back east place for oddball stuff popular with many hotrodders called "Joblots" is closing it's doors. I don't know much about them, but a number of Hamb members were very upset at their closing.

[Zapato]

sending that stuff to the dump proves you can't fix stupid.

Zap-

[Ford Blue blood]

As my dad used to say "the almighty green back"......

[Limey57]

Seems to be happening more & more, the old-time specialists close down & folks can't be bothered to sort through the stock.  Some gets saved and sold on EBay but the amount of rare stuff that ends up dumped is unreal.  The problem is that when it gets put on EBay it's usually at a price no-one can afford so those parts just sit around unused and unsold.......  I'd sooner move them on for a realistic price rather than have them collecting dust.

[57 imposter]

Sounds like a neat trip. Any luck on finding your house on a lake?
Connie and I are leaving for Phoenix this afternoon. It's a day earlier than planned. Looking forward to a big cruise/show on Central on Saturday, and the always good pavilion cruise in Scottsdale Sat. night. I think this trip we'll get to spend a few hours around Flagstaff and take a few day trips out of Phoenix. I've always wanted to see Sedona.

Don't rub it in Rich! I am  jealous already. starting to get cold here. I think you will really like Sedona. We went up from Wickenberg on highway 89 excellent road with lots of neat towns along the way. It goes thru Sedona and comes out just south of Flagstaff. If you have the time to do your return trip that way, you won't regret it..We had planned to do our next trip south with at least a couple days in Sedona but it looks like we are going to try and go further east this year so will save that stop for next time.   

[RICH MUISE]

We absolutly loved Sedona!! Connie and I have a new favorite place to visit. The scenery was incredible, as was the outdoor artwork and architecture. We had her cousin and 85ish year old aunt with us, so we we not able to spend as much time there as we would have liked. On our next spring trip we're going to plan on staying there for a night. There is no skiing in the area, so the place "is like a ghost town" in the winter we were told by a waitress. Unlike Flaggstaf, however, I don't think I'd want to live there...Too tourist oriented, and no way to avoid the traffic bottlenecks.

[hiball3985]

I have to admit that I have been lazy and haven't been turning any wrenches and just driving it while ignoring many little things I need to still fix. Saturday we made our annual trek to the beach, wife likes the beach, I can do without  A few miles north of Ventura at Rincon.

[hiball3985]

Our little local group does little shows for various organizations, schools etc. Last week we did one for the Fire Fighters Association, Yesterday we did one of several convalescent hospitals we do during the year. Not a great turn out yesterday but at least there were 10 Fords and only 2 Chevys and one Goat. One black 57 Fairlane was MIA so we only had two.

[Ecode70D]

  Have any of you guys ever  met Ernie Adams the  man who drives his miniature cars to the Pavilion cruise in Az.?   I know that he built a miniature 34 Ford sedan and a miniature 49 Mercury.  He generally used the sheet metal from refrigerators . I have seen his cars when I was in Phoenix and went to his house.  He operates in his back yard between two houses under a home made canopy for shade from the hot sun.   This guy absolutely has some talent. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfQ3PTOOFOM

[Jeff Norwell]

I never have Jay. but that sure is neat!