What did you do with your truck/shop today

[RyanbabZ71]

drive up to chicago. Rolled over 75K miles

[smcgillis10]

drive up to chicago. Rolled over 75K miles

I just got 70k today.

 

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[Silver16]

 

Removed that damn air dam. Now to configure a shield for the belly of the beast.

[NEFisher11]

Changed the oil in my wife's equinox and fixed my window switches so they work now. Just had to clean the contacts.

[ducklawyer]

Cleaned her up today with meguiars wash&wax, followed up with the spray wax-as-you-dry.

 

 

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[sdeeter19555]

Not my happiest moment...

 

Cleaned out my grandfather's shop on Saturday. He passed away recently at 90 and I was promised his tools. Being he was a retired auto mechanic (a real mechanic, not a technician), you can imagine the tools he had from being in that profession for nearly 50 years...he owned his own repair garage for nearly 40 years.

 

I would guess most of his tools were older than me, some have his name stamped on them, likely from the days before he had his garage.

 

Was pretty surreal since I helped him build that shop as a kid, and used most of those tools at one point or another on some fixit project or wild fabrication project.

 

 

 

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[Jsdirt]

Sorry to hear that, Steve. I went through the exact same thing 23 years ago. May he rest in peace.

 

I hung my grandfather's Champion plastic display spark plug & sign in my barn, along with his metal name plate off his toolbox. I have his toolbox still loaded with all his machining tools from when he worked at Norton Co. as a machinist. He retired from there, and worked as a mechanic out of his garage until the day he died. Prior to Norton, he worked at a Buick dealer as a mechanic for a time, flew bi-planes for fun, hunted skunks during the depression for pelts, and also repaired oil burners (heating units) to get by. A true jack of all trades. He used to run an ad in Hemmings Motor News, and would get Model T parts from all over the world that he'd rebuild, restore, and ship back. I remember seeing a package from Hawaii on his desk as a kid - a Model T distributor he rebuilt & sent back to the guy.

 

When the bank wouldn't give him a loan, he built his house himself out of lumber leftover from the Hurricane of '38. I always loved the story he told of when the same banker that turned him down happened to be driving by as he was building the house - the banker recognized him, stopped, saw what he had accomplished, and suddenly decided he "had made a mistake". Well, my grandfather told him he can stick the loan right up his ass, and get the hell off his property, HAHAHAHA! A proud moment! Loved that, lol.

 

That's what made things a little easier to handle - remembering the good times. The stories of his youth, and all the times as a young kid that he attempted to teach me about auto repair as we leaned over the core support of various different cars that would come in. I still have and use alot of his tools that are older than my dad and I combined! I use his pneumatic grease gun daily - that thing is at least 40 years old - probably more. I also still have his 100+ year old Model T ignition coil from his garage.

 

 

 

Well ... so much for Photobucket ....

 

Edited July 10, 2017 by Jsdirt

[RyanbabZ71]

Found out today my wife volunteered my truck for parade duty in September

 

 

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[Colossus]

Found out today my wife volunteered my truck for parade duty in September

 

 

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Time to have a talk with her.

[Ravenkeeper]

Found out today my wife volunteered my truck for parade duty in September

 

 

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You too?

 

Time to have a talk with her.

 

I have, still get volunteered for parades. Told her one time that I'm working that day, "well, you can take my car." HELL NO!!!!

[RyanbabZ71]

I am not to worried about it, truck is almost 8 yrs old. It was funny she said what are your thoughts about hanging signs. I said depends what kind (can I out them on). She said well I already told them no. She was shocked at my answer

 

 

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[StinkyCheese]

Picked up my buddy from fleet and drove him home because he had to turn in his pool car. How the heck does all that, plus a large bag in my bed, fit in a tiny impala and still have room for him. Besides his height no wonder he can't wait until he gets whatever the Ford suvs are, Explorers I think? Then he had to drive most of the way back in his POV to attend training.

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Edited July 13, 2017 by Chevyguy85

[Kentucky22]

Took it to the garage and clear it well. Because next month we are going for a long time journey.

[SuperSierra]

Started a new project truck, well my first truck my dad gave me years back.

 

2005 avalanche, took the fender flares off, going to get a fresh coat of paint and going to add some color, paint the grill smoke the headlights and tail lights, then worry about the shocks.

 

Shockingly no lights on the dash only really driven 1 or 2 a month

 

 

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[Colossus]

Picked up my buddy from fleet and drove him home because he had to turn in his pool car. How the heck does all that, plus a large bag in my bed, fit in a tiny impala and still have room for him. Besides his height no wonder he can't wait until he gets whatever the Ford suvs are, Explorers I think? Then he had to drive most of the way back in his POV to attend training.

 

 

My 2013 Impala had TONS of trunk room.