United States of GRIZZ - Just how random do you want it?

[brandersnatch]

Great progress.

[Grizz]

Great progress.

Thank you.








Spoiling you all.





Giving too many reports.





Spring is on its way.





Cleaning stuff is part of the rhythm.





On Friday I swept the driveway and cleared the gutter outside the house.

Unfortunately I have weeks of flowing water down the street because maintenance is not done as it used to be.

So ditches, drains and outflows are blocked and water flows down the road.

Resulting in the road gravel being sprayed onto the sidewalk.



I put a lot of it into the garden bed next to the driveway.







Looks better, tidy, clean.





I cleaned cars today.



Cleanliness is next to godliness irc.



Green car being viewed tomorrow.



Rezin Rockit will be more actively pushed for sale.



This should liberate some space.







Lets hope ehhh.

[mercrocker]

Woodie looks like it is earning its right to stay.....

[Grizz]

Woodie looks like it is earning its right to stay.....

Totally.

I am doing a time lapse video for my youtube channel while making the lifting jig and it’s working.

Person coming to look at car called on 11.00 to say he is delayed and will be another 30 minutes.

Grrrrrr

[Grizz]

Progress.

Dusty. Sawdusty.



Person * who was coming to view the green car at 11.00 called at 11.00 to say he is delayed due to flat wheel, I asked how long he would be, 30 minutes he replied. I think he is lying.

I had come in and changed out of my garage clothes.

But I had a coffee at least.

Time wasters.

Speaking of which…….

Fokken Romanians. (Yes I know where he is from, also not first or second idiot who refuses to read and understand an advertisement thinking itd a reality TV show)!

How much is radio?

I send pic of ad he responded to.

He replies 20?

I reply 30!

He says no thanks.

Time wasters.

Saying that, the majority of buyers are good as gold.

Just for some reason, electronics attract numb nuts.





Admit it……..

You are still grinning at my irritation.

Back to work till the car guy arrives.

[FatherJack]

I fully understand the frustration, there seems to be a section of society that are terminal bottom feeders.
They have nothing of value and assume everything on sale should be shifted into their price range.

After a kitchen makeover I had a two year old builtin oven/Grille and a ceramic hob I didnt need.
The hob cleaned up to as new, wanted £30, Took a tenner after a sob story, buyer collected a new shiny car.

The oven was a mong magnet, it was pictured in the garden on top of the evicted cabinet it used to live in.
"Can I come and test it ?" No
"Can I rent it from you at £5/Month" No
"Can you deliver, fit and provide a test certificate" No, No and thrice Fuck off

I dropped the price to a pound on the Oven and added "Free if you can collect now"
Updated to a picture of it in the metal skip, one of them reported me to Gumtree who binned the advert!

As for the Radio, put it up to £50 and offer to take £30.
Point out the cheapest one on Ebay is £50, I suspect he already knows this and plans to flip it onwards.

[Grizz]

I fully understand the frustration, there seems to be a section of society that are terminal bottom feeders.
They have nothing of value and assume everything on sale should be shifted into their price range.

After a kitchen makeover I had a two year old builtin oven/Grille and a ceramic hob I didnt need.
The hob cleaned up to as new, wanted £30, Took a tenner after a sob story, buyer collected a new shiny car.

The oven was a mong magnet, it was pictured in the garden on top of the evicted cabinet it used to live in.
"Can I come and test it ?" No
"Can I rent it from you at £5/Month" No
"Can you deliver, fit and provide a test certificate" No, No and thrice Fuck off

I dropped the price to a pound on the Oven and added "Free if you can collect now"
Updated to a picture of it in the metal skip, one of them reported me to Gumtree who binned the advert!

As for the Radio, put it up to £50 and offer to take £30.
Point out the cheapest one on Ebay is £50, I suspect he already knows this and plans to flip it onwards.

Unless your real life persona turns out to be the polar opposite of the guy who wrote the reply quoted, you are welcome at my place 24/7

I feel your pain.

And I am at a point right noe of smashing a blower unit (kitcar, Mini sized) up and sending a prick who just doesn’t understand what it costs to post and ship stuff.
He is not the first.
Radio guys, three of them all with super strange names, and listed as Albanian and Romanian and a scammer profile generated thr same anger.

Anyway, we chose to list shit, I guess.

[Grizz]

Journeys of discovery 

They are all very different, I recall the first breast I fondled, clear like the light of day, under the mulberry tree. 
The first car I drove (a 1968 Mini Pickup my dad owned in 70, 71) metallic green, as he had a thing for having cars repainted. Driving it around our town oval stock car racing track. 
The first time I was Shooting a gun (rifle) at someone in anger. 

I also remember getting these replacement parts out of a Chevy truck in Arkansas  



So the last four weeks have certainly been a Journey of discovery for me  

Little by little I have discovered parts for the truck that I have forgotten about over time  

And most came off the truck and will need cleaning up and further sorting out  

But it is rewarding and fun to some extent  

Saturday I got on with all the used parts that came off the truck originally and put them in places, containers and marked them more clearly than before  

At one point, @nickwheeler popped in, after his Saturday bell ringing session to cast an eye over my progress. Though he says little, I think he is quietly impressed that I have binned used split pins, toilet tissue and empty Pepsi Max cans  

I found my old registration plates and though I love American style plates, and planned to fit some to the truck, these also look good, due to the sheer size of the truck  

We will see what happens when the truck is ready for plates  



I carried on after Nick left and found more treasures. 
Sorting, packing and cleaning some of them. 
Resulting ultimately in this…….








There will be a few more things to find, figure out and sort but hopefully they will surface soon. I recall buying some really good quarter windows and rails, much better than what was fitted to the doors, they will be interesting to fit when the time comes  

There are newly powder coated Rallye wheels and new trims, center caps etc.  All to be rediscovered  

I also moved the blower unit that Ian Brown customised for me many years ago back in with all the parts  

I remember rebuilding this unit years ago  

For anyone who is interested, the blower motor and power switch from earlier Mazda MX5’s are an incredibly easy retrofit here. I used some foam insulation to seal it in  



Happy with the result





Sunday was planned for a few tasks as well  



Report later  


Maybe

[Grizz]

Drip feeding.

Too much of a good thing and all that.

Sunday was a slow day after all the rummaging around on Saturday.

But I was onto a bit of woodwork again

Being creative is a lot nicer than just moving stuff around.

I wanted to make a cab lifter again so that I could remove the cab from the chassis when I needed to work on the cab, on its roller jig.

So based on some photos I took years ago, I measured up, then found some lumber in the store.



Cut it all up to size as needed.

Dealt with a time waster who cost me over 90 minutes.
Changing from my garage clothes into jeans, trainers and hoody, before his 11.00 appointment, waiting for him, then getting called to say he had a flat wheel ( I have no doubt he is just a tardy timekeeper) and was running 30 minutes late, which turned into an hour late, ultimately not buying the car after some pretty dumb questions, and going to look at some other cars.

Wood cut up and ready, then assembled it.

Mickey popped in to supervise me and of course help while smoking a couple of smelly roll ups. At 78 he is still going strong.




VIDEO OF PROCESS.





Shut shop by 4.00pm as I had dinner being cooked and needed to spend time with Bonnie.

I also decided not to paint the lifting tool.


Famous last words.


By Monday afternoon I was on it, having dug out some old paint. One metal tin had rusted through the bottom before and was stood upside down on my paint shelf. And a plastic tub of what was left over of a purple/blue made perfect volunteers for random mixing



And done.

Pretty stupid but hey……. Makes me happy.




In the evening I took a look to see if there were any of the Little Tykes Woody cars for sale online.

A few popped up.

Clearly valued by some.

Me included.

And then some dreamers.

But of course if someone paid the price, I would be wrong.



Back to Bonnie.

Loves a ball.

Nonstop.

I try hiding them……

Not a stupid dog.



Wednesday today.

Hump day.

[Grizz]

Seen at my local food shop.

No….

Not Walmart or ASDA.

Morrissons.



Be interesting to see the check out process.