Another Great Weekend

[chetbrz]

Chet;
Looks as if you will soon be making large toothpicks. Your P-15 is shaping up. Hope you enjoyed your trip to Smashville yesterday and also enjoyed riding in my P-15.
Don Coatney

The trip was good and the food was great.  Needed to spend more time with your P15.  Didn?t get the chance to inspect the stuff under the hood.  Anyway maybe next time.  Old Ed can really talk didn?t really have enough time to get into all the ins & outs of your car and it?s period modifications.   Love the 5 speed standard floor shift.

Chet?

[Don Coatney]

Chet;
Looks as if you will soon be making large toothpicks. Your P-15 is shaping up. Hope you enjoyed your trip to Smashville yesterday and also enjoyed riding in my P-15.
Don Coatney

[Bill Davis]

Chet,

Your shop floor is way too clean! ;D

[chetbrz]

Thanks Mr. B..., I guess I am blessed.?  It's good to be reminded of that once and awhile.

Jim,? Your Dad would feel proud that his old Lathe is back in business.? ?:)

Chet...

[Mr.Belvedere]

Hey Chet, went to your personal website saw the pics of the 07 plantation show, what a great back drop for prewar cars especially.  Saw the pics of your handsome family too, looks like you are a blessed man too.  I have two daughters as well, but mine are in diapers!  I have a brother who lives in Norfolk, he says its unseasonably warm there too.  Must be all the greenhouse gasses these cars emit keeping it so warm, oh well all the more reasons to keep driving them! 

[Jim Yergin]

Chet,
Nice looking lathe.
Jim Yergin

[chetbrz]

It is October and the weather here in Virginia is 90 degrees at 5:00 PM with clear blue skies.? ?I took the 29-U out for a spin and turned 300 miles on the odometer since I brought her home last year.? She is getting to be a regular driver in that the last couple of times I took her out I didn?t have to fix anything.? Ya.!!!? ?Actually on my adventure today I forgot to take the usual tool bag and didn?t even give it a second thought.



Well my winter project besides the restoration work I am doing to my 48 Plymouth Special Deluxe is to respoke the wheels on the 29.?



I plan on providing a step by step description of what I will be doing including diagrams and pictures.? It costs somewhere in the $300 to $400 dollar bracket per wheel to have someone do this.? Most of the cost is labor so I think I can accomplish this for about $75 to $100 dollars per wheel.? Including the tools purchased.



I installed a spindle duplicating device on the wood lathe I purchased from another car buddy.? Cost $40 plus the duplicating device which was $150.? So I am into this at the moment for about $190 which is less then the cost for one wheel.

The wood is Kiln Dried Hickory and can be purchased form a couple of Pennsylvania wood shops cut to size and planed square.

Chet?