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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
02-18-2024, 06:05 PM
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Hook it up to the 3 point on the 8N, drag it though the soil for a few hours, shine those moldboards right up.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-09-2023, 05:01 PM
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Rust is in, the latest look in automotive “finishes”.
 GOTTROD by Racer, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-31-2023, 11:18 PM
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The Brownell Company made engines and boilers to run generators for electricity, threshing machines, power sawmills, and pumps for irrigation, in the late 1800s. I believe this one was used for irrigation, and it looks like it was set up to be moved with a drawbar, either by horses, or an early traction engine.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
02-22-2023, 06:21 PM
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My Korean War era Bantam trailer, that was originally a US Army Jeep trailer. Left by the former owner of the property I own, I use it for yard work, pulling it behind an even older Ford tractor.
 Bantam Trailer by Racer, on Flickr
There is no trace of the original paint, just a protective layer of rust.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
02-14-2023, 08:26 AM
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Yes, you read that right.
But most aren’t very pretty, and will require lots of love.
 Z Farm by Racer, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
02-13-2023, 12:17 AM
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I won't, as I am thinning the herd (I have 14 Z cars, a 72 Camaro, two antique tractors and associated equipment, an antique motor grader, two pickups, a Legacy wagon, Mrs. Racer's Corolla), but I am trying to place it with a suitable caretaker.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
02-12-2023, 03:09 AM
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Nearly all the pieces needed to repair rust on these cars is available, from several sources. One company, based in Florida, with pressing mills in Brazil, is reproducing the most comprehensive collection of bits, frame rails, floor pans, firewalls, rocker panels, etc.
And there is a source or two of carbon fiber body panels, fenders, hood, hatch, doors.
A company in England is remanufacturing bespoke Z cars, turnkey. A bit out of my price range though.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
02-12-2023, 12:13 AM
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Looking up from under the driver's seat. You can see the upper portion of the driver's door and the left windshield pillar.
 HLS30400870 by Racer, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-28-2020, 04:54 PM
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That is a very old engine there. Someone should drag it out of there and restore it to running condition.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-17-2020, 11:22 PM
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Remarkably, the seat support structures, and the seatbelt anchors are still quite robust.
Looking up from the bottom behind the driver's seat, the top of the driver's door and the left windshield pillar visible through the holes.
HLS30400870 by Racer, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-17-2020, 07:28 PM
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A 1977 Datsun 280Z, with very little floor left.
 HLS30400870 by Racer, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-10-2020, 01:41 PM
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I'd even go so far as to say this may be a connecting rod bolt on a very early stationary or traction engine. Or a steam engine.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-09-2020, 06:30 PM
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A very old bolt, it is. The nut looks to be hand forged, and the head with indicates the bolt was made to be used in an integral interference fit hole.
It does look like the shank is worn beyond the service limit, though.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-10-2020, 01:49 PM
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A Bantam utility wagon, Korean War era. Produced for may years, by several companies, these utility trailers were designed to be towed by the Jeep. As near as I can tell, this one was made by the Bantam Car Company, sometime in the early 1950's. The original hitch and landing gear was gone, the tailgate missing as well as all the wiring, lighting and reflectors. Strips of 1/8" steel were added at the corners, vertically, presumably to stiffen the box.
I added the hitch and landing gear, fashioned a crude tailgate and put the stakes in for more capacity when picking up dead tree limbs. It sees plenty of duty behind my 1948 Ford 8N tractor.
It has a nice protective layer of rust.
 Bantam Trailer by Racer, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
11-18-2019, 11:24 AM
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I’m with Dave, it is a reduction gear setup, but for what I couldn’t say.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
11-02-2019, 05:45 PM
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And now you know, the rest of the story!
 Old Dinah by Racer, on Flickr
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