OT What Else Old Have You Got in the Shed to Dri

Tim

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With the new stuff HP came out with last year for affordable digital printing in 35mm quality and the new digital SLR cameras that came out with 5.0 MP quality and higher, I sold all my darkroom equip and most of my 35mm equip (I kept my first Olympus for nostalgia).

I'm using a HP photolaser with HP 57 and 58 print cartridges on HP premium paper. Cost is running a little over a dollar for an 8x10. For batch runs/packages I like the online sites (smugmug or deviant art). Shooting Olympus E300 at 8.1MP now (and love it), first used a Sony 5.0 MP (big clunky thing with no lense or filter options, then an Olympus E1 (liked it better than the E300) but got it wet during an alternative fashion shoot in Nashville last summer (very very wet).

Mercury was the Canadian division of Ford. Same trucks, different name. Under the hood, all the parts are Ford, and it has the same flat-head V-8 in there as in the Fords. Even shares the model designations pretty closely (i.e. M-600 = F-600). In 1953, Ford had its 50th Anniversary, so it was also the 50th Anniversary for Merc. Kind of neat when you clean up the horn button in the steering wheel and it says "1903 - 1953: Fiftieth Anniversary" around the Merc emblem! About equal numbers of Mercurys and Fords up here, so not very rare.

That particular Maple Leaf is an extremely rare truck for up here even. 1930's Maple Leafs aren't very common, but a 1951 is extremely rare. Never even heard of another one. According to the serial number tag, and my research, the Maple Leaf was built by General Motors of Canada. It had a Chevy body on it (even says "Chevrolet" on the nose), but had a GMC engine in them, which were a little bigger than what Chev had in their trucks at the time. This truck needs a lot of work, but I'm very lucky to have found it.

Specter in Central Alberta.

79' T-Bird one owner, last year of the big boats
76' Power Wagon Clubcab, one owner
70' Dodge 400 2-1/2 ton

T-Bird on the list to be restored. Power Wagon is heading out the door. Dodge 400 makes a great trailer.

T_Bone

Before I bought the truck the owner had installed a 2spd 2-1/2ton Eaton differential so it worked well for pulling a MH from Co to Az then I converted it to a water truck and the teenagers decided it was time to drag race "the truck". That pretty well did in the engine. It only had 40lbs compression and very little vacuum but would still start and move 10klbs of water at 20mph.

T_Bone

T_Bone

'46 White WB-22 flatbed (tractor hauler), '69 Dodge D-600 (old work truck), '72 Corvette (350, 4 spd, headers & 4" side pipes) sweet little car :-)

The Dodge and Corvette are both for sale (had them both for over 20 years). Gonna try and rebuild the engine in the WB this winter.

Dave Olson - East-Central Illinois

Here is a pic of the little Plastic Car~

Dave

Larry