Garage Hangout

This Daimler had a pretty cool hood ornament. People even then had a sense of humor.

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A little something for everyone.

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A 1907 Westinghouse in unrestored condition. For a car 118 years old it looks pretty good. I hope to look that good at that age.

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And finally a car from the basement. Pretty cool looking to me. I think it's a Caddy but I was being rushed out and didn't have time to get more info.

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Thanks Jabby.

bmwrd0 hope you can make it down. Yeah the paint job looks more 60's than 20's not sure I could look at that all day.

1965 Comet  50's and 60's cars are old and officially antiques usually given as 45 years old and older but some states vary. But I think it's a testament to the builders these are still around and in the case of this collection still driven.

goodfellow I think there are many reasons cars now are different but most of the ones I showed were custom built and almost all of the collection are coach built bodies not something most people could afford.

I am adding in a few more pix.

This hood ornament really struck me as pretty funny.

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This is generally considered the last Packard. Not this particular car but the model. After this the Packard marque was put on Studebakers as the companies had merged. A short time later Nash bought it all and it became American Motors.


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1947 Lincoln Continental. I think this is one of the most beautiful Lincolns ever.

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This is the so called coffin nosed Cord. It had pop up headlights!

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I too am a fall/winter type. Nice overcast days, a bit of rain or snow, hot fire at home.

Can't beat that.

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