Thread: Un-streetrodding a 34 tudor

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Originally Posted by stovens

Here it would be a scheduled appt. 1 month from today, and they'd hit you with 20 nusance fees, to where registering it cost more that the car did when new(in the case of my 48' Ford F1) I pointed out to the counter person that they had charged more fees than the cost of the truck!)

One of the many "rewards" of living in California.

"Rewards".. hmmmm that's one way of ..... expressing or describing that joy of dealing with "The MAN!"

Crikey!
Mike (34_40) and I were discussing bureaucrats when we went to visit him, and I said I would send him the quote below from Terry Pratchett, who wrote satire as science fantasy.

His take on bureaucrats:

The Auditors.

The most deeply negative and destructive forces in the cosmos of the Discworld have no fangs, no tentacles, no red glowing eyes. They look like small hooded robes with nothing whatsoever inside. They are the Auditors of Reality, who see it as their job to make sure that the universe functions smoothly and efficiently, without unpredictable interruptions. Above all, they distrust and reject the notion of individual responsibility, since they hold that to have a personality means to have a beginning and an end, and hence to forfeit immortality. The way to be immortal, they maintain, is to avoid living. Therefore they operate entirely by consensus, never permitting themselves to show personal tastes, feelings or opinions, if any of them becomes aware as an individual, it self-destructs instantly. They are the enemies of imagination, creativity and emotion, and hence of life itself.
Mercifully, their power on the Discworld has so far been restricted. On Earth their presence grows daily.

Sir Terry Pratchett.

Rather apt!
And when one self-destructs another immediately appears to take its place...they are immortal!
When you think you've seen the last of one bureaucrat another bugger pops up!

Originally Posted by johnboy

Crikey!
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Rather apt!
And when one self-destructs another immediately appears to take its place...they are immortal!
When you think you've seen the last of one bureaucrat another bugger pops up!

To add, they have a motto:
We don't care.............we don't have to!

Worse they pretend to care to sway the lemmings to follow them! It's amazing the lives they live, the acts they get caught doing, and their continued survival as a politician with the media(the same people who will drag them down for one mistake, will totally "forget" and pump them up for the next takeaway!) Yup believe me alot of the insanity starts right here, and slowly spreads across the soon to be unfruited plains!

I think we are getting a bit off topic here...LOL

Maybe so but an interesting train of thought...

I spent just about the whole weekend cleaning and organizing my garage. It was turning into a real $hithole. I probably found 50 wrenches, 12 jackstands, 4-5 hammers, a one gallon paint can full of nuts bolts screws and washers lying around, 3 extension cords, more drill bits than I care to count, about a dozen tapemeasures, 3 contractor bags full of garbage, and a partridge in a pear tree...LOL Nothing is getting done on the wife's coupe so I packed it full, in it, under it, on it, and all around it. I moved my bench and welder to the other side and created a little work area far away from the soon to be returning painted body. I even put the vise on my bench. I can't believe how much better it works on the bench instead of under her car. Funny how that works! After all that was done, I figured I'd tackle something small and easy on the car so I can say I got something done. I figured I'd pull the fuel sender and put the new one in. Easy right? Only 5 little screws! As always nothing is that easy. I pulled the old one out and it is so badly corroded the float arm wouldn't even move. So I did all my measuring and cutting and I go to install it and the damn float is hitting the side of the tank! So I turned it around the other way and now it's hitting a baffle! REALLY?? Long story short; I had to make an adapter to rotate the float to the center of the tank. I really wasn't happy but it was now done and I was able to put the wires on it because they can't be reached once the body is back on. I just so happened to have some steel disc's lying around that were the perfect size for a sending unit adapter. That's why I never throw anything away because I can always make something from stuff lying around. It's both a blessing and a curse. So I still needed something to make me happy so I installed my new 3rd brake light and it looks killer! It's amazing how much faster you can work when your not tripping over things, knocking things over, or just plain can't find what you are looking for. Clean= more productive...What a concept!

Very nice Jim! I baught a new vice for my garage at home but had no good bench to put it on. So I baught a metal bench from Menards to put it on. Too bad the top is cheap particle board! So I've been using my vice on the floor. I need to make a stand for it and bolt it to the floor. Someday! Haha

The light looks nice there. And having"chunks" of metal on hand, it just won't get any better than that right???..

Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe

Very nice Jim! I baught a new vice for my garage at home but had no good bench to put it on. So I baught a metal bench from Menards to put it on. Too bad the top is cheap particle board! So I've been using my vice on the floor. I need to make a stand for it and bolt it to the floor. Someday! Haha

It's always nice to have a vise on hand to do things. They just come in so handy for everything. I got so use to having one around I had to mount one to my toolbox at work. Then I started a trend and everyone now has one.

Originally Posted by 34_40

The light looks nice there. And having"chunks" of metal on hand, it just won't get any better than that right???..

Thanks I like to light a lot too. As for the chunk's of metal lying around; I've taken that to a whole other level too. Chunks, sheet, round rod, bar stock, plate, stainless, aluminum, CRS & HRS, and more bed rails than I know what to do with. Then I have channel iron, drill rod, brass. Oh yeah it's one stop shopping at my place! I'm like Noah; I have at least two of everything. The wife calls me Jimdepot.

I know the feeling!
When I retired I sold most all of my machinery.
Not using machinery = not breaking machinery = not welding machinery back together.
So after a couple of years I sold my collection of 'unused good steel'. (Not junk, as She called it!)
Steel was down to about $150/ton...and I still got around $1500!
There must've been a fair bit more there than I thought.

Wow, $150/ton. It'd be nice to see that again. It's down to $30/ton here.

Jim, you definitely have a collection going. I was going to scrap a lot of stuff I haven't touched for a couple of years. But with the price of scrap being so low, I'm going to hang on to it for a little longer. Some of that "junk" has saved my butt more than once.

Originally Posted by BIG-JIM

Thanks I like to light a lot too. As for the chunk's of metal lying around; I've taken that to a whole other level too. Chunks, sheet, round rod, bar stock, plate, stainless, aluminum, CRS & HRS, and more bed rails than I know what to do with. Then I have channel iron, drill rod, brass. Oh yeah it's one stop shopping at my place! I'm like Noah; I have at least two of everything. The wife calls me Jimdepot.

I guess it'll have to be my duty to come by and help you out of this dilema... It would only be right.. us being club members and all.. YEP! No one should be saddled with such a nickname as JimDepot.. Would Sunday 'bout noon be alright???