Good morning!!!!

[Popgadget]

Here’s the KubVan
It’s a monocoque aluminum box with a VW rabbit drivetrain, front struts and steering rack. Has a Dasher rear axle and brakes on coil springs.
Originally designed as prototype EV for mail delivery, with a Prestolite electric motor and PWM speed control with a 4speed VW transaxle. When there were no buyers, they fitted the 1.6 NA rabbit diesel and auto trans and offered it commercially. There were less than 500 ever built. Mine is almost dead stock except for the 14” wheels. It was impossible to find decent 155-13 tires, so these are the same circumference, with a lower profile 14” tire.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Storms on way home last night, .12”. Now have .65” this morning

A little work this morning, then I’m off for a week.

Today is 5 yrs since mom died.

After last nights storm.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Thinking about the chainsaw bar nose trouble, Ken, some of them have a grease port. It's little more than a hole, and needs the needle type fitting in a grease gun. But if yours has it, it may explain why the bar oil isn't working.

 

[pennwalk]

It has been hot this week so I have been putting off mowing here at the house. Looked good this morning and the front yard was dry enough from last evenings rain. Got the John Deere out and about 5 min. later it started to spit big drops. I got it finished. Now it is raining steadily.

Had my first sweet corn from the farm stand. Very good. They had about 20 peaches on the table yesterday so I got 2. Not quite ripe yet. Tart Blueberrys and second variety of red raspberrys are coming from our garden. We love summer fruit.

Savor Summer

Chris

 

[toppop52]

I had a monza. Was an ok car for a college kid

I never had a Monza, but I had the Olds version, Starfire. 231 V6,4 speed. That wouldn’t do so my best friend and I installed a 400 Pontiac and Dana 44 rear end and bigger clutch in it. Had to modify a Pinto steering column to clear the headers. It was a bit quicker than stock.

 

[PJSprog]

71°F and rain this morning, going up to 82° today. Thought we were going to have rain all day today, but looks now like it'll be done with us by early afternoon.

Some very active boomers passed through yesterday evening. Dogs spent most of the time hiding in the bedroom.

Glad you caught the conflagration before it got out of hand, David.

I had a '78 Chevy Monza hatchback for awhile in the early '90s, BEF. It was my "divorce car." Got it right after my divorce, because I rode my BMW motorcycle pretty much year 'round, but needed something with four wheels for the snowy and icy Winter days. It was a beater that I think I paid $500 for. Only had it for about a year, and that car was nothing but trouble the whole time I had it.

A bunch of nice pics today, gents.

 

[toppop52]

some light rain overnight, about .18 but much more coming in today, tonight and tomorrow.
Stormy weather for sure. High in the 80's today

I agree on the Frontier, wish I still had this one, very rare LE with nice wheels and my favorite color.
Traded it for something bigger to haul weight, now this would have done fine.
I like the looks of the new one also but very competitive market; right now the current Frontier is high value, just older tech.

quiet morning, then off to meet friend for lunch in Doylestown and we then go look at Volvo suv's.

My brother in law’s is a medium gray colored four door with the larger aluminum wheels similar to those, leather, fancy electronics, adjustable load tie down package, trailer package and most other goodies. I used it a couple of times to tow the club trailer and it handled that fine, about three thousand pounds.

 

[MoKelly]

Read today that Ford is shutting down 6 plants in the US in July over the continuing lack of chips.

Ford said they were at approx. 50% production in the Second Quarter.

Some expert said the lack of chips is costing US car manufacturers $110 billion in lost sales in 2021. Ford said their profits will be down $2.5 billion this year due to lack of chips.

The car/truck shortage does not appear to be ending soon.

MoKelly

 

[kenmbz]

RNG- greased the bar nose as it has ports on both sides. All the Oregon ones for the chainsaw do. The pole saw bar does not. Nose still clogs up, but only with 20" bar, not the 18" ones.

Caught the squirrels up in the peach tree again-little thieves.
They also dug up some more flowers, looking for bulbs? Saved three, lost one. :-(

More baby rabbits, feeling that baby fox will get big fast.

I am so amazed at the different temperaments of wasps.
We have one type that will not even notice us, have a nest next to the faucet for the outside hose that does not even flinch when I go turn the spigot.
We have bald face, which will chase you, even not near the nest.
Yellow jackets, always fighting to get your food and will attack when you are near the nest.
Mud daubers-Won't bother you , seemingly ever.
Wasps that go in the rocks-very aggressive - get upset at any vibration near the nest and swarm.


4 day weekend starting tomorrow!

 

[LouNY]

I truly have one car I should have put in storage. I was 23 years old, living in Annandale VA commuting to Alexandria working for Travelers Insurance, and I bought
the boss's son's 1964 Porsche SC bathtub white coupe for $3500. Black leather interior with beautiful steering wheel and a rather rubbery manual
on the floor. But not as rubbery as bug. Nicer wood shift knob too. After the clutch cable broke and left me stranded sitting up on top of the concrete barrier with both sides of
the Beltway whizzing past me, I decided I needed a new reliable car. Sold the car for what I paid for it.
As you might imagine, this is a six figure car now. Numbers matching non molested SC model with larger engine. Like an S model today.

I drove that in several gymkhanas at a few events, not overly hard, back end on that would swing out in a heartbeat if you lost traction.
But up to the grip of the 165-14 tires I had just put on, some Swedish brand, that car went plenty fast for me with no experience.
It was a crowd favorite, and I never scratched it thankfully. Well....my nose is growing longer, seems I remember when that rear end kicked out on an offramp in the rain and I spun that car
360 in confines of ramp, just kissed the back bumper for a tiny scratch which I promptly repainted, and with heart thumping I went on.
Like many of these older cars particularly with swing axles, Corvairs, etc you did great up to the limit but when you exceeded it
you were left with a very hard to control car. Nothing gradual about the experience at all.

I had two cars with swing axles, both 63 Pontiacs a Tempest Hardtop and a Lemans convertible, both originally had the slant 4 Pontiac motor.
Then the Lemans got a 389 shoved into it.
They were both a handfull on the twisty roads around here and especially driving with the throttle on the dirt roads.