The caddie sounds really intriguing. I’d love to see photos. I love old cars in general.
I got a reman q-jet two weeks ago and maybe this weekend, I can get it on the K5.
My Willys jeep has to move to storage. The upshot is that it, the K5, cj7, and 750k will be moments away instead of a few miles.
Two immediate things for the new abode are a good microcut shredder and someone to run some data lines.
The WiFi repeater is being a pain to setup for some reason. I do not trust WiFi security under any circumstances. The repeater would be a short term fix.
We love old jeeps and old cars. In my earlier years I helped keep a bunch of old trucks, forklifts, and tractors running for my dad, not to mention the cars. It seems funny to me that there are not a lot of people who know how to work on the old beasts these days.
We originally planned on making the 42 Cadillac into a replica of one of Eisenhower’s staff cars. But this car has an interesting history. It was originally owned by Winifred Filson who with her husband started the Filson Clothing Company in 1897 to outfit people heading to the Alaskan gold rush. Her husband Clinton died during the flu pandemic during a trip to Oregon in 1919. Winifred ran the company until her death in 1958.
When we sent the Filson company information about the car... they sent us a gift certificate, and with permission used a picture of my wife in one of her WWII Nurse Uniforms standing in front of our 1941 Cadillac in several of their catalogs and claimed the picture was of Winifred’s car.
We previously had a beautiful Series 61 1941 Cadillac, but had to sell it when money got tight. But since that time we have thought that it might be better to do the 1942 Cadillac all original with some expensive re-chroming and paint the car its original beautiful metallic robin’s egg blue instead of WWII olive drab green,
I should mention that my wife was not actually an army nurse in WWII. She is a military historian and collector. She works with mostly museums, service organizations such as the USO and the military.