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Bye Bye Magnette

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tony barnhill

tony barnhill

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No, not the 2 in my collection - the parts cars!!

Some of you may know Wray Lemke...he come over here periodically. Today he picked up one of my parts cars, a 1956 ZB Magnette...it just a parts car, the underneath floors, trunk, etc. are gone - & I mean 'gone'! But there's lots there and, since he collects Magnettes, he's gonna dissasemble it, keep what's good & crush the rest.

In a few weeks he's coming back to get my ZB Varitone Magnette parts car...he'll use its body as a donor to replace a rusty Magnette he now drives.

Now, I've got another shed I can tear down!!
 
Oh, Tony is building new sheds. Go Tony.
 
Tony,
For every shed torn down, you must put another addition onto the garage. Your garage is a little small for the cars in there. Lets see, you only have about 20 or so in the garage?
Rik
 
20?? Which wing are you talking about.
 
Rik said:
Tony,
For every shed torn down, you must put another addition onto the garage. Your garage is a little small for the cars in there. Lets see, you only have about 20 or so in the garage?
Rik
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hehehe...you read my mind, Rik....new addition starting in the Spring/Summer! I'm gonna move all my tools, workbench, sand blast cabinet, parts cleaner, etc. into it & use it strictly as a place to work on cars.
 
And just where is this add on going?
 
Behind my Midget room on this diagram between the door to my 4-post lift & my lawnmower room:


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Boy, then you out of easy add on spots.

Oh yea. Lets get some slope on the roof.
 
jlaird said:
Boy, then you out of easy add on spots.

Oh yea. Lets get some slope on the roof.
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Hey, I did see in this month's <span style="text-decoration: underline">Mother Earth News</span> a neat new solar panel arrangement for metal roofs...I'm thinking I might want to do that for my garage....apparently, the new panels just stick to the metal & are run down to a converter that puts 120V into the panel box!
 
And all I want is a garage 22x26.....Tony I massively dislike you now!! :laugh: LOL
 
How do you like that? The guy gives me a Magnette parts car and it has a Metropolitan engine in it. Sheesh, the nerve of some people.
 
hehehe...glad to see you over here, Wray....so that carb setup in the trunk was MG - you remember, we were wondering about the manifold...wonder if its just got Metro intake, etc......can you see any stampings on the engine?.
 
Not yet, I still have it on the trailer, need to shift some stuff around before I unload it. Should be a standard B series engine that someone may have modified the oil pump so they could use the whacky ZB oil pan.
 
I'll guarantee the good ole boy down in Georgia from whom I got it didn't know enough to modify anything! Will be interesting to find out though.

Been raining since you left!
 
Wray, glad you dropped in th the BCF! Sorry we couldn't make the Charleston show this year. We were in Oklahoma at the time. I see your helping Tony clean out some of his, um, holdings.
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tony barnhill said:
hehehe...you read my mind, Rik....new addition starting in the Spring/Summer! I'm gonna move all my tools, workbench, sand blast cabinet, parts cleaner, etc. into it & use it strictly as a place to work on cars.
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And that would mean another hoist? :thumbsup:
 
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