Thread: Happy Birthday Don Shilady

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Thanks folks, it would seem I am 71. Since my recent visit to the NSRA meet in Richmond last Sunday I am fired up to make good use of the remaining warm weather to make good progress on my '29 while I can. It looks like I have a bit more work crawling underneath so I want to get that done before it gets cold. Here is the present state of the car. I had to remove the radiator to install the Zip pump riser and then reinstall the radiator. I just installed some neat aluminum rings with rubber grommets around the nasty holes in the firewall for the heater hoses. I was very lucky to find the 2" diameter grommets through discussion here on the Forum at:

http://www.sealsit.com/firewall.asp

That went from an amateur disaster of large holes to something which looks more professional. I also bit the bullet and bought the expensive "Its-A-Snap" H4 headlights with the built-in LED turn signals along the bottom so now I can work on the hood and the fuel line from the rear tank with an electromagnetic valve to prevent fuel siphoning from the tank which is about 1" higher (when full) than the carb on the engine due mainly to my big & little tires and wheels with the "down hill" look. There is so much left to do but for now I am enthused to make progress during the remaining warm months; a thermometer on the garage wall will warn me when the dreaded "sinus headache" season is here again. I am in the third year on this build and the past two winters I have learned that for some reason getting down on a cold dusty floor leads to sinus colds to the extent that it is better to just do something else and last winter I switched to assembling a home computer built from four PCs with duocores for an 8-core Beowulf; this winter I may just run that thing on some long computations till it gets warm again in the Spring. But first some time off for yellow cake with chocolate icing; just a small piece! I could easily ignore birthdays but my wife is very family oriented and basically we always seem to be celebrating some birthday in the family and she really seems to enjoy these events! Thanks to many of you for the excellent technical help this Forum provides!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder