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When I went to go to town today, the battery in my 55 Mercury was dead. I cursed the old battery and boosted it. Away I went to town to get some parts and lunch. When I came out of the restaurant, I noticed my brake lights were on. They would not go out, so I guessed that when the truck was...

The North Peace Bracket Racers put on the Spring Spectacular car-show every spring for a while now. Here are some pictures of some of the entries.

Remember how I like to brag that these two workaholic friends that I have will sometimes call me up and see if I'm planning a tractor project. I always say yes, and then try and make a plan. Well, I went to their shop on Friday, with a plan, and to catch up on the gossip and I was again invited...

I've never liked my lawn-sweep and this fall when it broke down, I found another cheap one and started making it better. First I took the wheel drive sprockets out of the drive wheels. One wheel needed to be moved out so I could put a V-belt pulley on one end of the shaft that turns the brush...

Dawson Creek is Mile Zero on the Alaska Highway. Every year the Mile Zero Cruisers put on a car show for the north country. It's a rip snortin' show and I attend most of the time. This year I took some pictures. #1 1937 Chev three window phantom. I think Chev didn't make one then. #2 1934...

I bought this '56 Ford Fairlane in the fall of 2020. It was finished and done nicely. There are a couple of things that I want to fix up that the seller couldn't find. I'm not complaining, because this car is very nice, inside and out. There is a vibration in the driveline at over 80 kms or 50...

I took my '36 out for a shake down run to the local A&W. The truck ran nicely, idled when it should have, and started properly. Good. It seems to burn more gas than I would like, though. Anyhow, it was a good hot evening so lots of people came out to the A&W show.

Here's and ad out of an old magazine. It's a reproduction that I found in a hotrod book. I remember this add when it was current. In fact, I bought the fender-skirts [up in the right-hand corner, '56 Ford] from this ad, and I still have them. I painted them salmon pink. In the last picture It is...

Here's my Flathead six Chrysler. This one is the industrial 230 ci. with the short 23 1/2" head. I think the different lengths of the head just mean that Chrysler didn't have to Siamese as many cylinders not that they necessarily made larger cylinders, on the longer ones. There were some bigger...

Virtual shop tour. The first three pics are of a '68 Super Bee, Dodge. I have bought it twice now, once in '72 and once in about '80. It has a 383 Magnum with a 4-speed. The forth and fifth are of a '50 Ford coupe, a stalled project from Saskatchewan. Lurcking in it's centre are a 350 Chevy and...

I feel I'm getting further and further behind on my project list. Maybe I should quit getting more cool things. ------ I can quit any time I want to, honest. Remember last year about this time, I told you that some friends phoned and asked if I had a project going that they could help with...

While I've been waiting for parts to come in, I have been doing winter yard work. Beavers have had a field day in the creek behind our house, so I started taking out beaver-dams. The third dam is yet to be removed. It is inside a 30" culvert across the county road just north of my driveway. The...

Here's one of the things that I've been doing the last few days. A friend who helps me with the old tractor newsletter in our Vintage Tractor Club wanted to seed 30 acres. I dug out an old Cockshutt 80 and a Massey-Harris seed-drill' [pic one'] and went to east of Grande Prairie to seed oats...

I had no intention of building a tractor this winter but because some friends got bored with nothing to do and a big, well equipped shop to do nothing in, I, good heartedly, relieved their problem. [pic 1] is the tractor, a Ferguson TE20, that I was going to eventually get around to fixing up...

A few years ago I bought part of a transmission jack at a swap-meet. It was a really good deal. A while after I got it home, I realized that a good deal is getting something of value for cheap. Part of a jack is useless. Today I converted the useless POS into a functioning transmission jack, [I...

I walked by the bare clutch shaft of a 1934 Dodge Brothers truck transmission quite a few times before it struck me how similar the splines looked to a forties or fifties Ford car spline. I grabbed the nearest '51 Ford clutch friction disc and man-handled it on the Dodge shaft. It slid right on...

I went to a show in Grande Prairie today here's what I saw.

I'm trying this thread for the second time. Anyhow, my plan for this '34 Dodge Brothers truck was to make it into a ratrod with a wide block, poly 318, New Process 435, 4 speed, and a Dodge Dart rear-end. The whole truck is a rough barn find, in fact too rough for a ratrod, so I'd have to tinker...

Some spark plug threads are unique, [20 threads per inch instead of 18, and an odd diameter]. You may not have a spark plug thread chaser on hand, and if you have aluminium heads, you may run into galling problems removing steel spark plugs. Here's a way to make a thread chaser. Take a good...

Compounding bad luck struck me the other day. My new motor runs too rich sometimes, so I snuck the middle [primary] carb out of its spot, [pic one] and took it apart to figure out what went wrong and fix it. I blew it all out and checked the power valve, [it seemed OK], and put the carb back on...