A bad omen.....

seems the simple solution for getting some repairs done and learning about your car...JOIN A CLUB.
 
I never had much interest in clubs.I have belonged to the two national ones in the past,and got involved with some local guys many years ago.I have zero interest in touring around with a group.The local guys I got involved with in the late 70's were a good bunch,but they got disgusted by the ones that had joined up to get their cars worked on by others for free.The guys that worked on the cars found themselves spending every weekend working on other peoples cars.When they pulled back from spending all their time on others cars the others disappeared.The closest club to me is 35-40 miles away,and driving that far to play with old cars isn't a hobby,it's a chore.
 
I'm with Keith here. My experience with local antique car clubs mirrors his and has been dismal, no matter where I lived - except for the Phoenix Model T club in the 1980's. A whole diff'rent box of people owned Model T's compared to the far more numerous Model A people. Unlike the Model T club, the two or three Model A clubs I briefly joined over the years ALWAYS had the kind of people Keith cites, as well as several know-it-all's, whose vast Model A knowledge came from reading Floyd Clymer's mistake-prone booklets. They always knew what was wrong with my cars and were not hesitant to inform me about my restoration mistakes as they perceived them. You know - those cars I drove from Arizona to Iowa at 65 mph for 30 years, and even in Germany? Those poorly-restored cars. Yet these same self-appointed experts and town criers never seemed able to drive THEIR Model A''s to club functions. We all know why. Maybe your club has some of these irritating people, too? I swear, in order to become a Model A chapter, the people must have to furnish proof that at least 5 know-it-all's belong before they are accepted by the national clubs as a new chapter. Moreover, unless there was food somewhere during a club event, no one would show up. And if they did, it was in their modern cars - just to feed their faces. Why bother calling it a Model A club? Call it what it really is - a diner's club. No more for me, thank you. I am permanently and officially done with local clubs.
'Sorry for being a Debbie Downer about belonging to local car clubs, but I can only relate my experiences. If you happen to belong to a club that actually embraces the Model A and plans events accordingly, I am envious. Maybe it was just where I lived that the clubs were such a P.I.T.A.???
Marshall, "clubbed"-to-death
 
Our club has a couple of outings per month. Some of the places we visited on our tours, I would never been able visited on my own or knew they even existed.

If someone's car needs work, the more experienced members will "guide" the newbs on how to do the work. For heavy lifting, everyone pitches in.
 
WHN said:
Your still cleaning gutters?
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Ahh, just the ones at my Shop that are at the 24' and the 40' high levels. ;) :D

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With diesel at 6.00 plus a gallon, most folks have bigger problems then the enjoyment of an antique. home heating oil comes to mind...............
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Ain't that the truth, -but I guess life is all about choices. Crazy enough, we were going to take my Toterhome & trailer on 200 mile trip to the Old Car Festival and 'camp' with the other Lansing Run participants to save a few $$. A few days before we were to leave, I ran the numbers of what the diesel would cost for an 8mpg rig, plus Generator fuel, ...it was less than $50 more to take my gas-powered pickup and pull my small enclosed trailer with both cars in that and just stay in a hotel instead. I chose the hotel route this time. :o



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I just replaced a 22 foot section of gutter for a 92 year old family friend.She has a couple of nephews that are a huge help to her,but they were too old to be climbing around on ladders and planks repairing gutters.They're in their mid 40's,I am 70.My dad did his last roofing job when he was 80.He started recruiting me to help when he was about 60.People used to joke,he has this roofing thing figured out.He takes the job,then you do them.That worked out pretty well.we would both strip,and get started.He would run the shingles up to me,and I'd spot them around to where I would need them.He bought a power ladder when he turned 65.Then he's sit in front of or to one side of me and throw them down one by one.He did all the tedious flashing around dormers and chimneys.He could mostly sit in one spot and just slide up and down a few feet at a time.He also picked everything up off the ground,and loaded it into the truck.I can still climb ladders and do heavy work just fine,but because of a sciatic nerve problem I have a terrible time getting in,out,and driving the A's.I'm getting rid of all the cars and the parts stash.The cars are just big knick knacks in the cellar.
 
BRENT in 10-uh-C said:
I ran the numbers of what the diesel would cost for an 8mpg rig, plus Generator fuel, .. just stay in a hotel instead.
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We had a big Wanderlodge Diesel motorhome. It held 200 gallons and when diesel hit $5 I figured our typical 400 mile days would cost $200 for fuel. We sold it and stay in nice hotels.
My biggest mistake was selling our 24' Featherlite enclosed trailer.
 
Keith True said:
Stories about retiring and moving on are just boring.When you throw in that the sky is falling people will read it.They just need Scotty Kilmer in there waving his arms and sputtering that the world is ending.
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I agree with Keith here! I don't pay much attention to that anymore I have matured past that point,,,I used to be concerned about that many years ago, not no more...

Scotty Kilmer!!:p I listened to him, some, YEARS ago but haven't in probably 3-4 years he's still around? He is a nut job, full of BS,,

The end for Scotty and I came during the Toyota engine grenading disasters after the NHTSA filed a giant suit against Toyota Motors for that junk, making them replace people's blown engines. Kilmer , MR. TOYOTA, goes to their defense in the last video I saw he threw up his hand and spouts off 'In defense of Toyota....'

I don't know how he finished that statement I turned him off and never went back.

How do YOU spell 'On the take':p
 
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ModelA29 said:
We had a big Wanderlodge Diesel motorhome. It held 200 gallons and when diesel hit $5 I figured our typical 400 mile days would cost $200 for fuel. We sold it and stay in nice hotels.
My biggest mistake was selling our 24' Featherlite enclosed trailer.
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I totally understand. I will admit it is always comforting to take your bed with you so that you KNOW who slept in it last. :eek: Those conveniences, however, do come with a price. The same thing with trailers.

FWIW, when I was ready to buy a decent trailer that I could carry 2 Model-As in, I looked and looked at shows at new models and I was flabbergasted at what they were charging for absolute 'junk' trailers. When I had that United trailer (pictured above) built, it was over $60k and it isn't even aluminum. My guess is a new Featherlite will exceed what I paid for mine by 20% -or more.
 
The word today is, everything is built cheap.

Equity Investment firms buying up companies and gutting them for every last buck then dropping them....

Make it cheap cheap cheap , jack the price to the heavens, create oligopolies so there is a 'co-ordinated' belief in you having competitors to choose from, when you don't, that is the new Business Model in these times:mad:
 
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