Thread: Un-streetrodding a 34 tudor

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Okay I'm starting to scare myself. I found the pins the other day amongst all my crap then, as you know I'm cleaning, I took a bunch of boxes of old car magazines to throw out into the recycling bin and I just set them on the kitchen table. Well the top box opened up and I said to myself "I'll grab just one to read on the porcelain throne" and took the rest out to the bin. The next day I'm spending some quality time flipping through the pages and I come across a feature car. A red 33 Chevy 3 window standard coupe. It's a pretty rare car. Well I used to own one and when I bought it it was red! It wasn't MY car (that would have really freaked me out). Now if someone were to say I picked up the magazine and it had a 32 roadster yeah well they all have one of those in them! But a red 33 standard coupe? Okay I'm not done. So I'm up late can't sleep so I'm in the basement rummaging through stuff and came up with a vacuum line for the vacuum advance that is not only the correct diameter but the exact length I needed. So I put that on and I needed to run a line to the vacuum switch on the transmission. So I go back to that shelf and there is a 20'+ roll of vacuum line! Really? Where the hell did that come from? Okay one more; today I got in a double pulley for my alternator to satisfy some people on here that are concerned about over-stressing my bracket (taking your advice Jerry). I tried an aftermarket pulley and it just didn't fit. I found some old GM units but they were too much $$. So I found a Buick nailhead alternator pulley that just needs a bushing/spacer. A bushing because my shaft diameter is smaller and a spacer to get it away from the face of the alternator itself. Now here is where it gets weird. I purchased the lathe and mini mill a while back and it came with 2 toolboxes full of (someone else's) crap. I open the top drawer and there it is. A bushing with a flange on it! I say to myself "Man I'm gonna freak if it fits" sure enough a PERFECT FIT!!! Now I have other people putting stuff aside for me to find years later? How is that even possible? I still have to open the bushing up to the correct ID and cut it to length but it is 3/4 of the way there. This stuff just happens to me all the time. Sorry for the long read. I literally have 100's of stories like this.

Originally Posted by BIG-JIM

.....I open the top drawer and there it is. A bushing with a flange on it! I say to myself "Man I'm gonna freak if it fits" sure enough a PERFECT FIT!!! Now I have other people putting stuff aside for me to find years later? How is that even possible?

Well, yesterday WAS "Back to the Future Day", October 21, 2015..... Maybe there was more to it than we thought.