That is a wonderful Show JO. I guess Swedes must of bought up all the available 57 chevys. I think I have seen that black and silver 56 on a different car video you posted last year. Perfect car. How did they all get there? I saw a couple Desoto’s. That would be rare even here. Thank you for posting this. Made my morning.
I begrudgingly admit that the Web is a excellent tool Steve. None of us would be aware of one another without it, however that’s the extent of my admiration. Even those of us that are mostly self taught in various fields of en devour manage to live full lives without PC’s and even before answering machines I got all the messages I really needed. Pretty sure if someone wanted to reach me they could most any evening. The switch from analog to digital in everything was strictly to increase the ability to further control information. Now you have no idea of the actuality of what you are looking at. Anything can be easily cut and pasted. Also, most of us are in denial, but Wi-Fi and other electro-smog are slowly breaking us down. Yeah, yeah, tin foil hat alert.
Funny that you mentioned Heinlein. We called the commune I was involved with “Strangeland” after the Heinlein book Stranger in a strange land. At that time,as now, we were convinced that a nuclear war was going to destroy the civilized world and we were making plans to buy up a parcel of land in the Central Highlands of Brazil and move there. I won’t go into how we were financing this fantasy, wink wink. Probably would have ended up like Jim Jones and the wack jobs in Guyana. Anyway one of the members inherited a farm somewhere in Ontario and the tribe decided to go that route. I separated and as always happens, within a few years control conflicts broke it all down. Same as with every other utopian idiocy.
Many Swedish enthusiasts vacuum the non-rustbelt US regions for old am cars. This has been the case as long as I can remember. Last time I heard (prior to covid), shipping them over here cost something like $8,000. Not my cup of tea
Many of the sci-fi novels and movies of yesteryear are way off the mark, but some are spot on. Sheeple are flocking to get their retinal scans with OpenA!'s new technology:
Reminds me of the film Minority Report with Tom Cruise. Then there are the people who can’t wait to get an rfid chip implant so they don’t have to reach into their pocket for change to pay for a coffee. I can’t believe people don’t recognize the inherent danger in this. A few decades ago I read that a spy expert revealed that the best way to spy on people was through their credit card purchases. You could know what they were doing and when and where. The current technology is all that on steroids.
Soon the government will do away with cash and make digital currency mandatory. That means they can control what you buy. They can also put an expiration date on your money. So soon we could have global surveillance and control unless people reject this tech now. But that doesn’t appear to be happening.
I too was/am afraid of nuclear war. I think the West is sleep walking into that conflagration with the current situation in Ukraine. Maybe the world needs a good cleansing. Unfortunately, while stopping the surveillance state it would make large swathes of the planet uninhabitable.
The Japanese have a penchant for buying up all the old American chopper bikes. Anything that’s Shovelhead and older, and has been customized, they want it.
Yes. Swedes able to find some of the rarest USA American iron I have ever seen (in my 60 plus years on Earth), yet, you can’t find a decent old Volvo for sale anywhere around here… I know it’s a rich man’s hobby, many hobbies going that route. There is this junker old Chevy pickup for sale nearby, and they want WAYY too much cash for it. It sits waiting… Thanks, J.O.!
Those are blackberries if I am not mistaken, we are getting lots of blackberries too but they are very small this year unfortunately.
But those potatoes are massive, nice baking potatoe
Ours have just started blooming but we were late putting them in the ground, I have not peeked to see how the harvest will be yet but I would be very happy with 10:1
Interesting Marcus that you kept this a an original 6 volt.
They work. Work well if not in cold, cold areas.
I did do back in my 20’s and 30’s a fair amount of 8 volt and 12 volt conversions.
They were always harder on the mechanical inertia “Bendix spring” starter spin out drives.
And those big internally more open only three cells batteries always lasted longer, with less internal shorting or going internally open circuit problems.
Ha! My very well used 1967 BMW 1600 sports sedan was factory 6 volts. It would still do 88 mph. Got the tickets to prove that.
6 volt electric windshield wipers and blower motors worked just fine too.
Pretty-fing paints seepage is the real electrical resistance making problems making bugaboo on these. Use by-pass jumper wires to verify these gremlins.
Regards
Steve Unruh
Here in Chile blackberries are known as mora. Supposedly they were introduced by German immigrants. Now they are invasive and everywhere. Mora is the bane of my existence with the possible exception of bamboo. Depends upon which one I’m trying to eradicate at the moment.
They aren’t the bane of my existance, just a nuisance. I think the bane is grapevine and thornapples… the 3" thorns are sharp… but on the bright side im never without a needle.
Been working all these years, thought I would leave it to keep working I love this old stuff when it’s original. This one lives in tonasket and summer time brunhogs a field not really retirement but I’m just happy to send it back out to keep going
I just can’t say no to these tasty little buggers when I get a minute to chase them. 30 minute soak yielded 14 keepers, a few disappeared when I got home and some made it to the pot. When they are this fresh almost don’t even need butter they are so tasty!
Yes , cut it all when it has full length. Repeat that a few times and it is dead. But you have to cut them all, not just the borders. So I have heard. Dont know if it is true.
Ooooh Marcus, now you made me hungry for those crawlers, here in Sweden soon it’s traditional “premiere” for fishing crawfish, in older times became legal to catch them second week of August if i remember correctly.
Due to tradition it’s celebrated with parties, eating lot’s of crawfish (boiled with dill “crowns”, salt, some dark beer), singing, consuming lots of “snaps” (schnapps), and maybe some “surströmming” for the ones that dare…
Going to check with my father how many crawfish traps he got…
I think it looks like real crayfish like Macus has, not signal crayfish like a are common now here.
However, I’m a little afraid of eating crayfish, last time it cost me SEK 25,000 (about 2,500 dollars), destroyed a front tooth
