Morning coffee

[RICH MUISE]

All the rainy weather we had in spring and early summer here actually helped my frame of mind when my car was down for the better part of 4 months. The temps are going to be in the low-mid 90's for our cruise later today. I'm sure I'll make use of that new switch I installed to run the cooling fans whenever I chose.

[mustang6984]

I was trying to say, that when you get the clearance, I believe you will not find many problems of keeping her over here. I notice that many resorts or even smaller pensions allow for pets and I can often spot dogdishes with water at cafes, restaurants downtown aso. I mean REAL dog dishes. not hubcaps...

I have no idea what will be required to get clearance for her. With multiple countries, I wonder if there will be a spaghetti plate full of regulations. Once I get moved to my new place here, and the car is finished, I can start thinking about when I want to come over, and begin the processes for the car and Sasha.
She is pretty mellow, and would see any other dog as a potential playmate. LOL!!!
I have noticed in pictures of places in several countries that there are water dishes around...had forgotten that until you just mentioned it. That is cool.

[djfordmanjack]

Hugh, in any case, when you are planning to do the trip, you need to get a membership of one of the big Euro Auto clubs, like ADAC in Germany or their British equivalent RAC. They will have most any information that you will ever need  ( concerning having and bringing a dog to the countries you want to go to and what is needed in case). I would think that you can take her anywhere, at least within the European Union and their Schengen states ( open borders like in the US). Careful with the UK, as we still have no plan when they will be obviously leaving the EU.
Your most important question is how to bring her from the USA into Europe.

[mustang6984]

Hugh, in any case, when you are planning to do the trip, you need to get a membership of one of the big Euro Auto clubs, like ADAC in Germany or their British equivalent RAC. They will have most any information that you will ever need  ( concerning having and bringing a dog to the countries you want to go to and what is needed in case). I would think that you can take her anywhere, at least within the European Union and their Schengen states ( open borders like in the US). Careful with the UK, as we still have no plan when they will be obviously leaving the EU.
Your most important question is how to bring her from the USA into Europe.

Good information to have. I will store that away to use as a reference. I am really thinking this would be a ton of fun to be able to come over with the car and cruise around the places I have read about and studied as a kid in school. Making those contacts you mentioned will probably make this venture a lot easier! Thanks!

[RICH MUISE]

Did the annual Polk street cruise last Saturday. Good day except a little warm at 91ish. I did about 6 loops for about 1 1/2  hours of driving. Car never got over 195 even when I had the  the A/C on, so I didn't have to engage my new fan switch. Spent the rest of the time just watching.......very cool!
There were 4 '57's there and a parked '58. Amazingly, there was only one '57 Chev there that I noticed!!!  Two of the other '57's, both Ranchwagons, are forum members here...Pat Fleishman (Suede57) and his brother from Amarillo who is not a forum member, but bought his from their brother James from Austin who is a forum member(Iamflashman). I pulled off to the side when I was passing where they were parked just to say hi, and got to meet James/Iamflashman for the first time. So I got to shake hands with the 14th(?) forum member, albeit very briefly.
Pat, if you're reading this.....when I saw youriding shotgun in a black Mustang, was that James'? I assumed it was since I saw your dad in his Mustang convert.
Sorry, I never took pics.

I want to mention the Vernon Cruise (summer's last blast) is coming up this weekend.Friday and Saturday. If anybody's looking for something to do this weekend, it's a great cruise / weekend of small shows throughout the town. Friday for shows and burnout contest....... Saturday for show and cruise.

[hiball3985]

So good to hear you are back on the road again and the cars is running fine. No pictures, OK, we will let you slide this time  My last trip I didn't take any of the car either.

[suede57ford]

Rich,

We had 11 Fleischman Family members there.

The all black '69 Mustang Fastback is brother Dan's.  He also had his black '57 RanchWagon which he let James drive since it was James's old car.   Maybe next year we will drive my 69 Boss 429 mustang up for the event.  No AC in a Boss9 so it might not be as comfortable as our Ranchwagons.

Dad and Mom brought the '66 Mustang Ragtop out. My sister and her son rode with them.  My two kids. Paxton( and Piper(7) rode home with their grandparents in the Mustang conv.

James was in town to get the short block 390/428crank (410cube FE) assembled for the '58 Edsel Bermuda Wagon he is building. 

[KYBlueOval]

Pat..........tell your brother James to check his wanted ad, as I think I found a source for the "buttons" he needs.
John

[RICH MUISE]

yahoo....good to go for this weekend. My favorite hotel/casino where I get free rooms was booked for Friday night, so last week I put my name on a waiting list in case of cancellations. They just called and I've got reservations for Friday night and Saturday night if I want it. It's about a 45 minute drive from Vernon in Oklahoma. show, cruise, casino, cool!
When I originally called for the 9th, they told me it was the only day in August that they were booked. One of the few casinos I can usually manage to break even after 5 or 6 hours, so throw in a free room, and it's a heck of a deal.

Oh crap...........the ups and downs, highs and lows of the car show thing..........I just did a weather check hoping it wasn't going to rain this weekend. It's not, but wishing it was. Friday temps are going to be 106, and Saturday 107. 0% chance of rain. Too hot for this old dude. I'm sure glad I'm not one of the guys who volunteered to be a traffic director standing in the middle of the road for hours.
I wonder if that had anything to do with the casino suddenly having vacancies for the weekend.

[Ford Blue blood]

Hey, we are back up!  Was having serious withdrawal......thanks James!

[RICH MUISE]

Yahoo!!!

[djfordmanjack]

yes, happy to be here again !
got my 57CS out for a short cruise yesterday, took it to home improvement store and for some more groceries. now that I have the actual oil pressure gauge hooked up again, I am more confident. Surely my old 292 is worn out, but she still has 40 psi cold and anywhere above 20 psi except for idle, when she drops low. not going to pull the engine for now. I just have to stay from (being) idle. 

[RICH MUISE]

decided to brave the heat and do the Vernon show/cruise.....or at least try, lol. Oh well, worst case is I've got a few days away from laundry room remodel. Had the car out yesterday for a short drive and it was running really great, I think that's what changed my mind.

[FiveSevenLiter]

From Hemmings this morning.

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2019/08/08/when-axles-were-straight-and-fenders-were-bare/

[RICH MUISE]

My Summer's Last Blast adventure.....drove down the 175 miles early friday and did a small show at the Ford Dealer. Hot, but the sky was totally overcast for the first few hours, so not too bad. After the show, I drove around town a little. Hundreds of street rods, classics, hot rods, racecars, model T's, old firetrucks,etc. Folks setting up bar b ques all over town. I discovered there is absolutely NO shade in that town to park under. It was getting very hot, and I decided I'd rather be sitting in an air conditioned casino than waiting around in heat (106) for the burn out contest, which I'm not real big on anyway. Makes no sense to me why folks are competing to see who has the worst traction.
Got back in to town about 9am, getting hot already. Not a cloud in the sky. Had breakfast and headed off to the bigger car show, really expecting to see attendance down from last year because of the forcasted heat. To my surprise it seemed to be as many if not more than last year. I'm figuring out heat seems to affect me more than most people. I was totally wasted by the end of the show. What to do for 5 hours til the main event started. Drove around the town for an hour or so looking at tons more cars arriving. Couldn't handle any more heat. Thought about killing 4 hours at the casino, but actually had a rare good night Friday night, so thought better of going back. Said the heck with it, heat got the best of me, my A/C needs some work, decided to just forgo the main event as much as I wanted to particpate, and came home. The first hour's drive was literally almost a killer. On the verge of passing out from the heat,but nowhere to pull over with shade. I was really struggling to keep my eyes open. Seems like forever to get to the first town where I could pull into a dairy queen and get inside to cool air. Best ice cream cone I ever had I think. I did think about just splating it on my forehead, lol. Anyway, temps started dropping into the mid 90's when I left there, so everything was ok the rest of the way. Last time I'll plan on a show when I know the temps are going to be anywhere near that high, and for sure need to get busy on my A/C (mostly ducting issues I've come to discover).