[Tim Hancock]

Originally posted by john_cramer
Aktung. First the VW and now this. Next you will be restoring street sweepers. No kidding, I once met a guy who restored, to concours condition, a street sweeper. He fished for a compliment, and all I could offer was, "It's a freaking street sweeper, Barry!"

Seriously Tim, you should be building, two at a time, macho bushplanes with shaved truck tires and 180 HP Lycomings. Or Glasairs with glass cockpits. There are so many guys with more money than time for whom your skill set is a perfect complement, for whom the 51% rule is impossible.

PROMISE me that as soon as the mopeds are finished you will start working on something that does AT LEAST 200 KIAS and burns our remaining stocks of 100LL moose juice so fast you have to call ahead for the weather.

I probably should not post pictures of my 1950's Clark forklift that I bought from work that just looked like azz when I got it home then. Or the 1970's Economy garden tractor that ended up getting a blasted to bare metal restoration because I had the engine out to rebuild and it just had to be done (someone actually makes original stickers for these...who knew!).

I jump back and forth on hobbies pretty quick and I love fixing up old junk. I am a sick SOB!

Oshkosh is coming.....I will undoubtedly jump back to my airplane project for awhile in August. I keep turning down big customer airplane projects for now as I have done a few and unless I quit my day job (health insurance and no liability), big projects suck when doing them part-time with deadlines.