Bing bing bing!!! Your prize is in the mail Andrew!!! Don't hold your breathe. It was pretty neat but seems like a little much. After I got the full demonstration I did note that seems easier to just buy a new plug(s).I wish I would have gotten more pictures. On the top of it it has that red lid. You lift that up and there is rubber grommet type thing where the plug fits. You put it in there firing side down. Close the lid and just to the left there is a switch, down for "abrasive blast" and up for compressed air I think. Then once your clean you move over to the comparators. These are the two rubber grommets (I hope I'm using the right lingo here) that are side by side. You put the old plug in one hole, and then I guess A new one in the other. Then you can hook them up. Notice on the right side in the shelf the two gator clips. Once hooked up you can begin cranking up the voltage with a sort of rolling type switch. On the top under the gauge are the sight lenses where you can watch the plugs firing. It seems a little much especially for $400. For that kind of money I could just buy a lifetime supply of new plugs
Those were normally used to sell someone new plugs, when engines ran to the extremes of lean and rich. So Grizz, that's a new set of eight #25 plugs for Babe....
^^ill just clean them up with a steel brush! I really would like one of these though. For the shop. Just for s's & g's. Looks cool right next to the work bench. And it would be a fun thing to play with while hiding from the chillun and misses while drinking beer. That's all that seems to get accomplished there anyways. Not for $400 though. Although I could have shook him down a bit. He did a full resto on it. Showed me all the inner workings and it seemed pretty straightforward. Got his card if anyone interest in....how'd you put it Andrew? "Useless garbage "
That's anyone's garage these days. Hell, I don't have my own garage, and I have useless garbage I'm attempting to sell.
Moooving right along. Check out this dude. These were sweet inside and out. I feel like these tbirds get neglected as I've seen few restored in my short little life. Both belonged to one fella, a painter. (Surprise, surprise!) he did the paint jobs on both these beauties. I like the orange one mom!
Ok enough is enough. Back to me and the car show. Let's talk about it/this! It's not always about YOU! No wonder the kids get upset and it lead you to drinking. Also you didn't give us enough time to comment. Sure Andrew had the correct answer but someone left the information right on the photo of the spark plug cleaner upper. My dad had a much smaller similar plug cleaner. He probably paid two bucks at a junk store. I always found a $1.00 wire brush, a proper small spark plug cleaning file, and a gap gauge did pretty good. I wasn't in the Army. I had to do it the shadetree way. Or just throw the nasty old plug away and go to Western Auto store to get another for $1.00. These things are also handy for the wife to insert a finger in each hole to remove old nail polish. Do not hook up the gator clips or crank the voltage thing at this time!
I'm bored so I'm still talking. When we lived down in Florida, only a few miles from home on the main 4-lane Gulf side highway, three brothers from NY had a small independant auto parts store. Behind is a large airplane hanger type metal building. Inside were/are many of this type T-Bird and a few older T-Birds. The one time I was allowed to peek in, the building was filled with early T-Birds and parts. They didn't like nosey people just looking. Mostly they were afraid some lookers would come back after dark and borrow things. It really was in the boonies and lots of borrowing happened around those parts. The parts store wasn't open much longer after we moved there. The little town a few miles farther south was getting all of those modern auto parts stores and had an old NAPA store local mechanics and I used. Getting back to the T-bird building, from what I understand, they were selling on the internet. There were oftn a few rebuilt and cusom birds sitting out in front of the old parts store. When in Florida you never know what lies hidden in sheds and buildings. There are other types of birds besides pink Flamingos.
Saw pink convertible "square bird" today. not really a fan. I think these painted beauties from the show are maybe the third generation? And after these the styling just went out the door in my opinion. The first years they came out with are neat, but you have to think that was what 55'? And there was ALOT of other car options in that year that are waaaay cooler
My oldest friend has a restored 1956 T-Bird, a 1949 and 1950 Oldsmobile fastbacks. If my friends don't have old cars they are not my friends. Or have cute wives! His cute girl friend has an exact copy of our orange 1977 ex-Corvette. Mine had a special interior that made it special... like me! The other old guy I went to grade school with has the same 1946 Ford convertible he had in high school with a 350 Chevy engine. He has a 1939 Mercury convertible all apart. a 1939 Mercury 4-door he drives, and enough flat head junk to build lots more.
I like the flat heads!! One thing about a lot of the rat rods in that show was it was just a hacked body with a modern 350. Cool don't get me wrong, but the ones that stood out to me were the flat heads! Here is a prime example, tastefully done I like the old junk. I like history! I want to know how it was done before the modern tech. It can only help me further understand my condition. A friend of mine used to work on bikes at the Harley dealership. I was hanging out back there one day and this guy had gotten screwed on a trade in. It was his recently deceased grandfathers and he just wanted something "dependable" I guess. Meaning he probably couldn't change his own oil. It was a pan head I think. With the shifter on the side. I was instantly enamored with everything about it. Wanted it bad. To which he replied "you don't want that! I hate working on that old junk!" What an ungrateful jerk! Takes all kinds I guess.
Oh, yeah, the 'Suicide Shifter.' Say what you will about the Teutels and their show, sometimes, they had a winner before the welders and stock were busted out. I was so enamored of the Snap-On bike build because they used older Snap-On tools for the controls, and I think it included a suicide shifter. I'd have to look it up to confirm that.
Let's talk about being a biker. Old cars, old bikes, old hippies, and watermelon wine! I had a lot of old mostly junk trail bikes. I'd buy cheap, repair, and sell cheap. My first real bike was a late model Honda 150. All of our friends rode late model Harleys of all types, a Norton, BSA, and other 'real' bikes. Most often by the time we got there, wherever there was on the 150 Honda, the others were ready to go back or someplace else. The final straw that made my wife stop riding with me on the Honda was when she had to get off and walk 1/2 mile up a hill while I rode to the restaurant! Or maybe the time I took off before she was ready and she slipped off onto the license tag! I sold the Honda and while looking for a newer car I bought an original black 1950 Harley panhead with the original leather saddle bags with streamers, silver buckles, blue tinted tall windshield, and wide white walls. It was a real Hells Angels reject! What I liked was it was supposed to be among the last non-cop tank shift models. Slow and sloppy shifting but I loved that large chrome knob. I have no idea how many million (thousands) miles we put on that bike. Twice my buddy with a new Harley and I rode from near Peoria, Ill to the old Harley factory and back. That's up in Milwaukee, Wisc. Both times executives gave us a personal tour of the old factory and each time I was offered a new Harley for mine. I'm guessing this was in the 80's. The only problem I ever had was I needed to add one ounce of Mystery Oil to each tank of gas. Otherwise at high speed it had a clicking lifter. Like a real biker, I carried the Marvel Oil in a plastic well marked baby bottle. I sold that bike back in 1994 to a good friend when we moved to Florida. Gonna get another bike soon! Well with a rugrat and living in the boonies soon never came. Been bikeless ever since. Still that didn't stop us from going to every small and large bike event for nearly 23 years. And with good biker friends we got to ride often. Nothing more exciting than riding behind a big hairy biker. My wife never did mind. Two tips of the day for you wine drinking hippies. It ain't about wine, it's about bottled beer. ------------- Never ever fill your leather saddle bags with ice and bottles of beer, soda, or wine. NEVER! You eventually may die of thirst. Never ever put a large freshly cooked pizza in your leather saddle bags. It won't fit flat and a hot pizza riding any distance on edge on a motorcycle will not look like a pizza for long. But it still tastes like pizza.
I made watermelon wine one time. That's when you cut a hole in the melon and fill it with everclear right?! Your friend still got the bike? moving right along. I don't know why but this reminded me of you model t. It's a tow truck? And it's red!!!
