My new desk!

Ive spent a week on a desk project for my self. I found a desk in a barn a few town away form here. Its a late 1800's partners desk but not sure from where. The desk was too far gone to restore back to orignal and I then decided to make it retro. The top was to damaged and a new one was under creation. I was looking for something that was a little ruff around the edges but not to mid-evil. Something that had a hint of the 50's and some modern. A partners desk has drawers on both sides of the desk with a huge desk top. The new top was shortened and then 2nd set of drawers were removed. Hidden doors were put in where the drawers used to be that now house my computer. Im very pleased with the out come and am thinking of building another.

Here's a good one. On Saturday morning I was heading to pick up a friend and then off to work. As I was pulling up to a set of lights a "67" Firebird pulled in front of me, slowly. It then pulled off the road on a weird angle; like it stalled. As I swerve to go around the Firebird I noticed the smoke coming form the front of the hood.  I said to my friend jokingly "oh no over heated." As I stopped at the light a guy in a truck pulled up beside me, got out and knocked on my truck window. I rolled the window down the man said in a panic "Do you have a fire extinguisher?" As I look in my rear view mirror I see flames coming out of the hood of the "67." I quickly and safely pull a u-turn and ran over to the car. The owner (and another guy that pulled over) are trying to out the fire with water. You know what happens when you put water on a fuel fire! The problem spread quickly. Now we have a fire! As we stood watching this poor muscle car burn, all we could do is wait for the fire trucks the arrive. I notice a truck and boat coming down the road.  Being a recent boat owner I knew there must be a fire extinguisher on board. I quickly ran over to the truck and asked "do you have a fire extinguisher in the boat?" He replied with a "ya" and we (him, his wife and I) ran to the boat. His wife was moving stuff around and couldn't find it. Finally the guy jumped in the boat and found it. He began to pull on the extinguisher but was unable to remove it from its harness. I jumped in the boat, released the lock and ran for the hopeless Firebird. I pulled the pin and put the fire to rest saving the car! The owner was excited about saving his pride and joy from a most certain death. The fire trucks arrived about 4-5 minutes later (after going the wrong way up the street from the lights) I guess this is my good karma for the week. Being a car buff I couldn't watch it burn. More then glad I could help keep a classic from going to the shit heap!

Looks so different but the same?????

Time to throw some more $$$$ at it!

K, the poor things been sittin' for about a year and a half since any works been done to to it.
I've finally got the Hooker long headders on it. There was a lot of smashing and bending and swearing involved but there in! I also put in new bearings and races and fresh spindels. I've cut the body damage out from under the passenger side and am making new roll pan. Seems to get harder and harder to find the time and help building this car. Its going to happen, its just going to take a lot longer then planed. Here's some more recent pics of my gem to sooth your eyes.

Paris Mazda

Ok its been a while since ive fired up the brain since my last blog. Ive since experienced a fantastic trip to London, Paris and German. It was an eye opener to the great variety of cars on the market today. There was a great one off car I found while touring Paris. They were shooting a commercial for this car on the main enterance to Napoleons estate. Unlike any Mazada ive ever seen it had extreme features and style. I dont have any info on the car yet but will be doing some home work on the car. Heres somes pick for your viewing pleasure.

Here's what I've been up to

Well lets start off with some history of the car. The dodge was found in southern Oregon near the Cal border.It was brought up about 8 years ago and spent the next 5 years in a chicken barn in Fort Langley BC. It was painted a bad cream color from its original sea foam green. I had the car delivered to my home in Langley where it has spent the last 3 years being personalised and modernly transformed.

I (meaning we from help from friends and family) began striping paint and the drive train. The original flat 6 motor and drive train was sold to a guy in Abbotsford BC for his 1928 International. After many hot days of stripping paint followed by cold beers in the drive way it was in primer, one panel at a time. It was this point that the wife started to refer to herself as the garage widow(lol). The body work was minimum other then a couple front floor pans. Don and Dustin from Schwab customs clipped the frame to a 79 Malibu and put a rear end from a local 55 Chevy that went to a 9". They also put in a tilt column and break booster for me. Thought it was going to cost me a small fortune but ended up doing a trade for storage on his sweet little 36 chopped chev pickup while he was moving shops.

I've removed the rear fenders, cleaned seams and welded solid to the car. Made for a much cleaner look. I've made a lot of changes to the dash and inner trunk. There's a 350/350 combo minus a drive shaft.  The wiring has ALL been removed and the 12v was purchased and ready to be installed. I am currently working on a custom rad mount and exhaust. There's a lot of work yet to do and this car is a budget build. I'm not sure what I'm more short of time or money (lol) but I'm always up for extra help or parts donations.