Over The Hill Gang , Old Farts with Young Cars

[zandron263]

I had to drive home in a little weather myself last Thursday. We had a lake effect storm hit during the evening rush hour. Snow was falling at 3-4" an hour. I know to stay off the main roads during heavy snow so I took back roads as much as i could. Took me about double my normal commute time which was way better than most who were stuck in traffic for 4-6 hours. I would say we got about 18-24" during the event.

Our winter beater Escape died over Christmas it needs about $1000 in brake work so we decided to sell it to someone my wife knows for $500 and we leased her a new Equinox in Siren Red Tintcoat. She told me the AWD worked well in the snow. Not sure about the fest I will think about it and decide later about going.

[RubyCamaro]

Back to the grind after partial snow days & weekend. 1 hour late today. Getting spoiled.

[ragzl1]

Rick ---- Barrett Jackson +++++

Jan ---- That was your anti/lock brakes on glare ice. They stop and release the breaks 20 times a second. It makes the most awful sound. Will not be able to get to the fest. Work gets in the way.

Trick --- those 40 degrees look ruff. My heart bleeds.

The better half helped me nail some door casing painted flat black as a frame for the 2 foot by 6 foot banner. Hung it in the cheese hole/car garage this weekend. The black turned out better than staining/varnishing it.

John

[Trickskier]

Originally Posted by ragzl1

Rick ---- Barrett Jackson +++++

Jan ---- That was your anti/lock brakes on glare ice. They stop and release the breaks 20 times a second. It makes the most awful sound. Will not be able to get to the fest. Work gets in the way.

Trick --- those 40 degrees look ruff. My heart bleeds.

The better half helped me nail some door casing painted flat black as a frame for the 2 foot by 6 foot banner. Hung it in the cheese hole/car garage this weekend. The black turned out better than staining/varnishing it.

John

Looks good John! It was 26 here Sunday morning - Nothing like what you experience but darn COLD for us Floridians! I had to wear tennis shoes instead of flip flops.

[ragzl1]

Trick --- My dad is down in Englewood. He is complaining also !!

John

[Trickskier]

Originally Posted by ragzl1

Trick --- My dad is down in Englewood. He is complaining also !!

John

John - Thank goodness that our COLD weather does not last long!!!

[RubyCamaro]

Banner looks great John. The one we have is so big it won't even fit on any wall in our garage. We have it partially on a wall & partially along a shelving unit. Wish we could do something like that.

[69supersport396]

Hi gang!

I love those posters John! Very cool.

Sorry to hear of the cold weather everyone. We had a nice weekend here, and I debuted the Caprice at our Paviliions Cruise. Here is my photo album:
https://onewaystreet.smugmug.com/Car...ions-1-7-2017/

Click on the thumbnail to see the larger photo.

Many of my Barrett Jackson friends already started working. There were probably about 300 cars already there on Friday. Saturday,they started video-ing them and parking them. I start on Thursday. The actual auction starts Monday and will feature about 100+ cars. This year, I work the morning shift, 8 am to 5 pm, so I may not be on TV too much. Every day is televised, I think on Velocity and Discovery?

Two vendors, Factory Five and some other, will be performing builds during the entire auction, and one of them will be sold on Sunday. There are 1738 consignments on the docket, so it's going to be epic.

[RubyCamaro]

I want to retire!!!!!!! That is all. Just tired of the daily grind.

[69supersport396]

Originally Posted by RubyCamaro

I want to retire!!!!!!! That is all. Just tired of the daily grind.

I'd like to also, but I have many years of working before I can retire.

[Trickskier]

Originally Posted by RubyCamaro

I want to retire!!!!!!! That is all. Just tired of the daily grind.

I'm with you 100+ nights a year in a hotel room is getting old!

[BLU DUCE]

Originally Posted by Trickskier

I'm with you 100+ nights a year in a hotel room is getting old!

For 38 years I put 250 to 300 nights a year in the sleeper of my truck driving 49 states.

[Trickskier]

Originally Posted by spike III

For 38 years I put 250 to 300 nights a year in the sleeper of my truck driving 49 states.

That's a lot of nights away from home to support your family! And I understand as I used to run Over-The-Road Irregular Route Trucking Companies.

[BLU DUCE]

Originally Posted by Trickskier

That's a lot of nights away from home to support your family! And I understand as I used to run Over-The-Road Irregular Route Trucking Companies.

Yah but since retiring 12 yr's ago I get to spend more time with the kids Shouldn't call them kids anymore but bad habit. Oldest is 52 youngest 47. Daughter moved to Fla. w/3 grand sons 2 years ago. Just lucky I wanted to retire early. The wife and I worked are butts off to get out early so I retired at 59.