Modern Vespa

Still sanding this bus. Almost ready for primer. Hoping to get the paint on before leaving for California the first week of July.

Got me a Junk Hauler!! 1959 F100! 6cyl inline 223, 3 on the tree. Runs, drives, shifts, and stops great!

As a teen I had one of these as my daily driver for many years. Hauled alot of scoot's and more around Socal in that thing! Now I'm back in an old truck seat as it should be. Looking forward to cruisin and hauling some cool scooters and junk!

* ignore all the other cool junk in the pics. Not my junk as I'm not that cool

Nice.

Dude, that truck is awesome!

well bought

That three on the tree is theft proofing. Nice patinas

That is a dig it!

Congrats.

That truck is awesome. I've been looking for some sort of hauler vehicle like that for a while, but I was thinking more along the lines of an old Jeep Wagoneer.

So...related...anyone know if you can fit a scooter in the back of a wagoneer without having to lay it down or do other gymnastics?

RAD TRUCK!!! The very first thing i'd do with it is to search out a pair of used 1959 oregon plates and get them assigned to the truck…at the same time getting the truck registered as a Special Interest vehicle.

This might help with the searching for your plate options- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Oregon

Dude! That is a truck Fred Sanford would appreciate.

Hell, that is a truck Fred Sanford may have driven!

Love it. Suck a find.
I can feel the glorious clicking of from the slop in the tree shifter at its cast metal base from here.

What about a J10 or equivalent?

Well, crap.

Ugggh...

I had a '62 J200. That was an interesting truck. Ran out of gas in Mexico with it once.

Well, this lathe made it home to my garage this weekend. It's not the prettiest but it's true. Quite the ordeal to squeeze it into my garage of horrors. Who would've thought my wideframe engine mount staking tool would come to the rescue for the final lowering. Digital readout is on the way. Im exhausted.

Very nice

Mazeltov!

You scored !
I wish I had space for such great tool

Almost finished the drywall and mud on this side of the garage. This has taken forever.

Looking good Patrick! Not a fun task...

I also have the requirement that I can use it to ferry dogs around, which basically mandates some sort of four door (more accurately, three windows, not counting the driver's). A Grand Wagoneer would be ideal because other than probably needing to fix them, it has power windows for ease of lowering and raising.

I don't expect I'll do anything for a while (and knowing me, probably never) unless a real DotD fell into my lap.

Puttin that pequeño gigante ladder to work!

Rob! Takisawa TSL-800D
Sweet!

That thing weighs a ton (actually - a couple of them probably).
Awesome get.

Funny thing about lathes - they are these big ass heavy machines that take up a whole wall - but the good ones are best at cutting small parts like custom shims for when your shifter tube rattles. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What an awesome tool.

Uh, wadda bout the garage lift!
OCT - that space is phenomenal - and getting more so by the year.

I've been told that a lathe is the only machine that can reproduce itself. (Or does it take two lathes..well, you know.)

There it is! 🤣

Very nice!!

You can't just expect two lathes to make sweet love. You have to get 'em drunk first!

Actually, I believe it is the Bridgeport that is the hermaphrodite.

I don't know - can you thread a lead screw on a Bridgeport?

I don't know the answer, but I wouldn't bet against the Bridgeport.

While waiting for the raffle PX to be painted I started working on a friend's PX frame. We are replacing the whole legshield - floor cause his was terrible...

Wow - that is so far beyond my skill and comfort level. Great to watch though, so thanks for posting the pictures!

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While waiting for the raffle PX to be painted I started working on a friend's PX frame. We are replacing the whole legshield - floor cause his was terrible...

That's extreme! Love it!

House project continues.
This time HVAC.
Shockingly, managed to get way (way) out over my skis.

It went something like this:
6 figure bid twice what I budgeted > decided to try myself > winning the internet on HVAC system design> & decided it should be commercial grade > forcing me to learn design software > and source a place that would fabricate components > thinking I was home free > until they delivered and the sheer scale and complexity settled in...

The system design is so shoe horned in to the structure with 1/2" clearances abounding, that it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to assemble in place (can't seal the ducts once inserted in joist bays) - which has lead me to coming up with a plan where I assemble the entire thing on the ground and then lift it into place. hahahaha. Skis meet chin.

You're the man! I love how you problem solve.

This. This right here. I am in awe ....

Pretty much how they do it in the real world from memory.

Wow.
"If you are gonna do something... do it all the way."

Indeed.

Not to take away from the awesomeness of the solution, but let's not forget that he's solving a problem he also created.

And the other thing that's maybe not totally obvious is that all the ceilings in that place are like 12 feet high, so it's not like he's just scampering up a standard six foot ladder to do this, either.