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Interesting conversation about heat and cold extremes. I left Michigan because I didn't want to freeze my ass off my whole life. Considered Florida, but that's got its own set of issues. In North Georgia it's a good medium. Plenty warm in the summer and cool enough in the winter without being snowbound or dealing with below zero temps. I actually tend to look forward to Fall and Winter now if the summer was particularly hot. This last one actually wasn't.

Today I was working on my minibike.

A few months ago the clutch chain snapped on me which resulted in an absolutely miserable 3 hour push home, and I haven't ridden it since.

The other day I was visiting my uncle and he gave me a torque converter kit for it.
At a local overstock store where he buys appliances and other things he had bought a bunch of these kits at $40 a piece for his GO-Kart builds.

Today I started on installing it only to realize it fits a 3/4 shaft when the 196cc on my minibike has a 16mm shaft so I decided to go into the city and pick up a 212cc predator from HF.
I got my old engine removed and everything, got the T-C and all my aftermarket parts installed onto the new engine,only to realize that I needed an engine riser kit because the T-C interferes with the frame.

So now I've gotta wait a weak or two for that riser kit to arrive so I can mount the engine up and figure out whether or not I can use the original drive chain.
If not I'll have to order a new one and wait another week or two until I can hopefully ride it.

Then I should finally be able to take my Savage mk2 build out and sight it in.

Quote from: Uncle Buck on Nov 16, 2025, 04:59 PM

Quote from: goodfellow on Nov 15, 2025, 06:35 AMBeautiful place Rural. Warm temps and conditions down under is a treat. We're heading into late fall and cold winter, and it is not very comfortable for us "older" folks at times.

Not this old man! I welcome fall and winter, my favorite months! Spring is just the warmup for summer! Insane heat which cannot be dodged to cut grass, weeds, and shrubs, wasps and other stinging insects to endure plus mosquitoes, tics, spiders, snakes etc to deal with. None of that with the cold months.Snow and ice? Stay inside,  build a fire and drink coffee. Snow clearing? Jump on the garden tractor cozy in your Carhardts and blade it clean. Power loss? Hook the generator up and yer good to go.

I'll take the cold months any day, I hate the heat!

I prefer fall and winter as well, partly because I have had a lifelong love of jackets which " collecting " has become a bit of a hobby for me, but most because there's only so many clothes you can take off before the cops are called.
It's so much easier to get warm than it is to cool off.

Absolutely stunning cars and memorabilia. Thanks for the pics. Cars back then had personality and soul. We lost most all of those traits in the government controlled industrialized post war era.

I usually think of '50s and '60s as old cars, but these are truly 'old' cars.

OK, that one car looks like a strawberry sundae!

Awesome place though. Not sure when I will get down that way, as I don't have any family down there anymore, but I will keep it in mind if I do.

That museum is on my bucket list.
Nice post Jaffaroonsky

The museum part had an astonishing number of cars. I will be going back.

The row on the left are all Pierce Arrows. There were other rows that were marque specific (like RR) and some were mixed.


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Some of these cars were monstrously huge - like this Olds. 

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I thought this copper hood on the Pierce Arrow was pretty cool and pretty unusual.

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I have more pix if anyone is interested.

The top floor had antique automated music machines. Never seen some of these.

Some of them were played for the tour but he said they were all working. There was a whole floor of player pianos, and all sorts of other musical automata. 

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All over the museum were these stanchions. I think they're pretty cool. Not sure if they're real camshafts and flywheels of custom made pieces I didn't think to ask.


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The car is a is a Ruxton a very early front wheel drive car. The paint job sure looks like something out of Great Gatsby.

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The photo taken from the balcony behind me were eight display cases of radiator caps. Some pretty cool, some pretty funny. Some were from the marque and some after market or custom made.

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