Bye Bye Magnette

[tony barnhill]

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!!

 

[jlaird]

Oh, Tony is building new sheds. Go Tony.

 

[Rik]

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

 

[jlaird]

20?? Which wing are you talking about.

 

[tony barnhill]

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

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.

 

[jlaird]

And just where is this add on going?

 

[tony barnhill]

Behind my Midget room on this diagram between the door to my 4-post lift & my lawnmower room:

 

[jlaird]

Boy, then you out of easy add on spots.

Oh yea. Lets get some slope on the roof.

 

[tony barnhill]

Boy, then you out of easy add on spots.

Oh yea. Lets get some slope on the roof.

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!

 

[Silverghost]

And all I want is a garage 22x26.....Tony I massively dislike you now!! :laugh: LOL

 

[Wray]

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.

 

[tony barnhill]

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?.

 

[Wray]

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.

 

[tony barnhill]

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!

 

[PAUL161]

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.

 

[Wray]

We were wondering where you and Sandy were, missed you guys and your car.

 

[weewillie]

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 that would mean another hoist? :thumbsup: