What did YOU do today?

[Roert42]

I spent a lot of time driving up to the Bronx to work in factories. This is my entire experience with NYC

if New York State was a pair of tighty whites, NYC is the skid mark.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Did you buy it from someone? Or was it broken down on the expressway and you just grabbed it like everybody else…

Actually, I bought it from a former member on here, who had swapped World Products heads on the 2.9 before I got it. Motor ate a couple valves a few months later and being young and dumb I sold the motor for like $50 and started an ill-fated 4.0 swap. Don’t remember the guy’s name though.

My 89 Choptop came from a former member on here (Farva aka Sherrodwannabeb2)

The 86 B2 I stripped for parts (and used a bunch of the parts on the first incarnation of the Choptop) was also from a former member on here…

 

[Curious Hound]

Actually, I bought it from a former member on here, who had swapped World Products heads on the 2.9 before I got it. Motor ate a couple valves a few months later and being young and dumb I sold the motor for like $50 and started an ill-fated 4.0 swap. Don’t remember the guy’s name though.

My 89 Choptop came from a former member on here (Farva aka Sherrodwannabeb2)

The 86 B2 I stripped for parts (and used a bunch of the parts on the first incarnation of the Choptop) was also from a former member on here…

Moral of the story; if you gotta sell an RBV, contact him ^^^^^

 

[holyford86]

We get bad raps in NY. It really isn't all that bad here in NY, especially in the suburbs. A good friend of mine from Wisconsin loves it here, he loves it so much he actually moved here for good. The food is great and the women are amazing. We also have country roads and mountains too.
Oh and the pizza is amazing...

I always like to joke that the part of NY I live in is like Vermont with New York taxes, mostly fields and mountains where I am, with not many people.

 

[Rick W]

Actually, I bought it from a former member on here, who had swapped World Products heads on the 2.9 before I got it. Motor ate a couple valves a few months later and being young and dumb I sold the motor for like $50 and started an ill-fated 4.0 swap. Don’t remember the guy’s name though.

My 89 Choptop came from a former member on here (Farva aka Sherrodwannabeb2)

The 86 B2 I stripped for parts (and used a bunch of the parts on the first incarnation of the Choptop) was also from a former member on here…

if you keep buying all the members trucks, we’re not gonna have any members left

 

[holyford86]

if you keep buying all the members trucks, we’re not gonna have any members left

He won't even sell me parts, I've been trying, haha.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Yesterday I spent cleaning and doing little projects... raked the black walnuts under the tree so I'm not stepping on the dang things going to the shop then moved them to the burn pile. Also moved some stuff by the shed and trimmed the blackberries around the stuff so I can get ready to build a lean to off the side for the boat so it's under cover. A few years ago I built a 12x20 lean to off the shed so gonna add another 12x20 or 24 depending on how it works out on the back side and a 12x3ish on the other end for firewood (we have random second hand roofing metal that's in 12' and 3'ish lengths)

 

[Blmpkn]

Not a thing. Been kinda sick all week trying to get that rest and all those fluids they talk about..

 

[Angry Possum]

I haven’t been in a while, but I know Staten Island was really beautiful. I was born and raised in North Bergen, New Jersey, in the shadow of the George Washington Bridge, but my aunt (who really raised my 10-year-younger mother) lived on W. Raleigh Ave., about a block from the zoo. We spent a lot of time there is kids. Fast forward till I graduated college, and I married a gal from Staten Island I met at work. She was the practice wife.

A year out of school I took a job at Frito-Lay, which is what brought me to Atlanta in 1979. Well, I hated Frito-Lay, and Frito-Lay hated me, but I stuck it out for 2 1/2 years. Amazingly, they promoted me to corporate headquarters in Dallas, but I fell in love with Atlanta and I stayed. Of course back then it was a small country town of 1 million. Now over 7 million, I wonder where I could move next to get back to a small country town again.

On my bucket list, seriously, is to see what they did to the Bayonne bridge. I loved crossing the bridge as a kid, and I’ve seen the pictures since they elevated the road deck, but I’m thinking it’s something you just have to see in person.

I used to get up to Manhattan pretty regularly for work, and my kids live in Jersey and New York right there, but I haven’t been to the island in a long time.

Kool, yeah the Bayonne Bridge came out rather nice. The Island is still the same but pretty much getting a little crowded not to my liking. I'll eventually move to NJ myself, as 2 of my 5 kids are currently living there a long w my grandchildren. Thanks for sharing ex- neighbor.

 

[Angry Possum]

Just finished putting a coat of Carnauba Wax on the Old Ranger. I'm Pro Active for the winter salts on the NY roads.

 

[Uncle Gump]

Fall clean up... yay!

Leaf blowing... Garden clean up... I'm gonna til it then cover with leafs. Then all the other duties coming into winter. At least it's nice out. Gonna be nice for the next week.

Playing ball with ol Goob too... makes him sleepy.

 

[tw205]

Brought the parts truck home. Started and drove on and off the trailer. Almost a shame to part it but another project is the last thing I need.

 

[sgtsandman]

Drove the 2011 home from Shamokin, PA. The rest was unpacking and now catching up here.

 

[Rick W]

Kool, yeah the Bayonne Bridge came out rather nice. The Island is still the same but pretty much getting a little crowded now to my liking. I'll eventually move to NJ myself, as 2 of my 5 kids are currently living there a long w my grandchildren. Thanks for sharing ex- neighbor.

Afterthought, but my ancestry is actually Staten Island. When my grandfather and grandmother on my mother side came over from Poland, he had a butcher shop and grocery store on Jersey Street. He owned a few other properties. This was approximately 1900 or 1910. A couple of the properties are now one of the footings for the Verrazano bridge.

I have the butcher block from his butcher shop in the shed of miracles, and I have his meat cleaver, ham slicer, fork and sharpener in my kitchen drawer. Boy I haven’t thought about any of that in years.

So we’ll give you a pass because it’s Staten Island….

 

[Roert42]

My uncles house was were the Delaware River Joint Told Bridge Commission office is, on the PA side of the scutters falls bridge.

Are we bonding now? Is this how that works?