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No Arctic travel plans in the works — as a matter of fact, they replaced that 112-mile ice road from Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk this year with some new-fangled all-weather gravel job. Very glad we drove the ice when we had the chance. Anyway, I put the studded knobbies on the Dodge every winter — the Dodge, the T, and my bike are my winter transportation since I sold my modern a couple years ago (we usually drive Michelle's PT Cruiser when we travel together). The bike has studded winter tires and I have chains for the Model T, although deep enough snowfall to use them is increasingly-rare.

I don't post often anymore, but still pop by a few times a week for a look-see. Merry Christmas to you all!

Hi Everyone, Thought I'd start a thread on the old girl I recently picked up. The car is an Australian P25 and put together less than 30km from where I live. It has a full history and from what I can tell was last registered in 1993 and then stored after the owner passed away. It's a good honest car in good original condition - I also collect old BMX's too so I know the line "It's only original once" but I'd like to help the old girl out a bit with a freshen up. It won't be a massive makeover just some engine work (it doesn't currently turnover - close but not quite), get the rear wheels engineered to take a wider tyre and lower it a inch or two all the way around, perhaps a retrim - the old vinyl is a bit beat up and quite brittle on the door trims, some bodywork to get the paint back in order - the roof is the main concern and the lef t rear quarter panel needs attention, and then polish up all the stainless stell and chrome trim. Once I get balls deep into it I'll probably say "Oh and I'll just do this or that" but for now I just need to get it running and registered so I can drive her around a bit. Here's some pics of her current stae - any advice or tips would are welcomed as this is my first car resto Cheers and thanks Kurt

From Tim & Lori.

Insert 6 quarters and you could have a look at the engine.

LOL....that would show an incredible amount of dedication to a truck! I'm curious of the motivation, as I would want to lock the whole truck up at night. I imagine yours is outside? Or are you concerned about the hood wings opening up during driving..... I have said that if you drill a hole at the rear of the lids, you could put a cylinder type lock based to the firewall. 48D

Move to a safer community would work.

Maybe that headlight knob price includes personal delivery, fitment and another car with it........lol.............andyd

I left the water heater off my offy intake . Been in below freezing temps just have to let engine warm up a little . There's plenty of heat from the exhaust manifolds hate all that extra plumbing

As teens we rode our Honda 50's, 70's & 90s etc with furnace damper chain on both front and rear, on road, off road, frozen streams, and swamps. Even pulled other kids on skates like water skiers.

Merry Chistmas to all the members and there family Ray

Merry Christmas to all. Just got my eighth grand child. Kayla had a boy yesterday. Happy new year also, Todd B

This Different Xmas poem was sent to me today. Please read it, and pass it along to any one you might feel that should read this deeply felt poem. This is for everyone to read young and old and for the young ones that do not understand than an adult can tell the really meaning of the poem. Its not about the amount or the cost of the items that we receive on Xmas day but the peace of mind that we have some great solders standing watch to insure that we can have a a safe Holiday If you know of a family that has a service member please send this to them and also to the person that is in the armed forces on this very special day. Rich Hartung A thought-filled message: A season of blessings, gratitude and love. The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight. My wife was asleep, her head on my chest, My daughter beside me, angelic in rest. Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white, Transforming the yard to a winter delight. The sparkling lights in the tree I believe, Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve. My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep, Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep. In perfect contentment, or so it would seem, So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream. The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near, But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear. Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know, Then the sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow. My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear, And I crept to the door just to see who was near. Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night, A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight. A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old, Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold. Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled, Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child. "What are you doing?" I asked without fear, "Come in this moment, it's freezing out here! Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve, You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!" For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift, Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts… To the window that danced with a warm fire's light Then he sighed and he said, "Its really all right, I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night. "It's my duty to stand at the front of the line, That separates you from the darkest of times. No one had to ask or beg or implore me, I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me. My Gramps died at ' Pearl on a day in December," Then he sighed, "That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers." My dad stood his watch in the jungles of ' Nam ', And now it is my turn and so, here I am. I've not seen my own son in more than a while, But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile." Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag, The red, white, and blue... an American flag. "I can live through the cold and the being alone, Away from my family, my house and my home. I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet, I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat. I can carry the weight of killing another, Or lay down my life with my sister and brother.. Who stand at the front against any and all, To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall." "So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright, Your family is waiting and I'll be all right." "But isn't there something I can do, at the least, "Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast? It seems all too little for all that you've done, For being away from your wife and your son." Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret, "Just tell us you love us, and never forget. To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone, To stand your own watch, no matter how long. For when we come home, either standing or dead, To know you remember we fought and we bled. Is payment enough, and with that we will trust, That we mattered to you as you mattered to us."

Sometimes those 6-volt headlamps aren't quite enough on a dark December night... About those presents up top — they are liquor store boxes wrapped in dollar-store plastic tablecloths, and ballasted with bits of scrap metal, rocks, water jugs etc. I've used them for several Christmases on the Dodge or in back of the '26 T Touring. A couple of years ago, two presents went missing overnight. I chuckle to think of the thieves' disappointment to unwrap their ill-gotten loot to find only a couple of broken bricks.

I am using a by-pass spin on oil filter on my 230 and did not loose any oil pressure were a full flow set up would. parts used were a Wix by pass filter head 24755 ( e bay) an a Fram PB50 by pass filter.

Look at your bell housing sides .

Asleep in a manger

A "Hidden upgrade" i have done in my b3b would be the 3.73 gears in the rear instead of the 4.1

One I'm ready to test while driving is my floor shifter for the three speed transmission and the three speed BW R 10 overdrive. It will accomplish several upgrades that I want. One is to add some modernity to the cabin, especially when used with bucket seats, two it will eliminate all the sometime troublesome rod linkages under the floor, three if I wish, I can option an overdrive thumb switch button and eliminate the floor stepdown switch to name a few goals. It's ready to install, one I'm satisfied with how it works, then I will redo all parts for a professional look. This looks similar to previous photos, but there are some minute yet significant changes.

Midwest Military also might have parts you need.

You should be able to replace that circle piece with one that is splined and then get a wiper arm. Roberts would have both pieces. The circle adapter is part of their wiper kit.

Right tool helps.

I have a '40, and '51 and a '52. The woodie is finished- the next project is the '52 for the wife to drive as a chase car for the woodie. It has a '51 nose, so I guess it'll be a hybrid '51/52. I seem to do that, as the woodie is a '40 metal body with a '41 wooden body.

This '50 Suburban is mine. I've had it for two and half years and love it.... Video https://youtu.be/EswGnmjzeo8

I think it counts...

it's the rear end of a 48 fargo 1 1/2 ton I suppose I maybe should have put that in the first post here is the rest of the truck

In case you get a bug on the road this should be everything you need in your tool box.

Don; Very funny......but I have an extreme aversion to getting towed in. Comes from 25 years of boating and at least a dozen boats I towed back into the harbor.....with very embarrassed occupants. Especially the ones that ran out of gas. I always made certain that any one listening to channel 16 knew what these clowns had done. Jeff