The Little Red Car Edition. As of Monday, February 3, 2020 at 9:00 PM pacific time:
| Track | Daily | Crush |
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| 1969 Alfa Romeo GTV | 1970 VW Karmann Ghia | 1966 Toyota Publica |
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| The gold Panasports just sell it. | I like hardtops better, but I’d take this ‘vert.. | Even the early Toyotas were dull looking. |
First go read Requiem For Bob, I’ll wait…
Seeing as the bike was no longer rideable it was hung upside down in the garage at Boardman Road. Then we had this bright idea to hang it from the cathedral ceiling on the screened porch right in front of the life-size B & W screen print of a vintage bicycle.
I removed the modern brake levers/shifters off, along with cables in hopes of finding some old school just brake levers. I took the pedals off to put them on the Bianchi to replace the Celeste Green clipless pedals that I didn’t really like. But when I tried to rebuild one that was not turning smooth, I lost a vital part (which of course is not available separately) somewhere in the garage, so the Celeste Green ones went back on the Bianchi and Bob’s went in the trash. This was OK because the screen print had rat trap pedals and toe clips, so I needed to source some of those too.
But the project never got off the ground, literally, because we could never figure out how to hang it up there in a manner that would not permit it to move in any kind of wind, look good and be cheap all at the same time.
Bob was still hanging upside down in the garage when it came time to ship our household goods to Oregon. I thought maybe it was time to discard the bike, but Donna talked me into bringing it along figuring maybe we could still turn into an art piece, either indoor or garden. Unfortunately we can’t find or think of a place to utilize it here at Pacific Terrace, so it was doing nothing but being in the way in the garage. Even after I got all the storage locations for the working bicycles settled Bob was just in the way.
We found a perfect place for Broken Bob right here in Klamath Falls though. There is a place in downtown called RAD Used Bikes that accepts used bikes and parts as donations to help get people who can’t afford a bike out riding, be it for fun or needed transportation. Today being Saturday, we drove down and donated the almost 40-year old bike. We even dropped off a bunch of old bicycling specific tools I’ve had for years because maybe I should be getting out of the mechanicing business (see the pedal fixing fiasco above.)
We headed out on a Home Depot run early this morning and serendipitously stumbled on a pretty sunrise. Stopped just off the Foothills Parkway and took this picture.
Just 10 months ago we put a new roof on 778 Boardman Road. That process took literally one day. We knew going into buying 1025 Pacific Terrace that it needed a new roof and, well, we are now 3 days into the process with at least 2 more to go.
The difference is, that the house in Aiken had one layer of shingles to remove and nothing else before laying down shingles because we took care of that house. The previous owners of this Klamath Falls house were not so diligent, I think they never took action until there was a problem.
At inspection we were told that there were two layers of shingles on the back and one on the front, turns out it was three and two. The the top layer in back was a lot newer and not in bad shape aside from the shoddy boots surrounding all the plumbing vents pipes. The front needed replacing badly as there was hardly any mineral left on the asphalt of the shingles. The hidden base layer was the actual original shingles installed on the house in 1964 when it was built 56 years ago!
The reason it is taking so long is those half a century old shingles don’t tear off like they should, they disintegrate, requiring 3 or 4 times longer to get off than usual. Add that to the time it is taking them to cut out all of the bad plywood sheathing, it is slow going. The whole roof is stripped finally and the back, the front half and half the gable side is repaired, but there is the other gable side still left to repair. Every bottom section of the sheathing has had to be replaced because when the bottom edge drip lip was installed it was put on top of the wood, instead of underneath, which led to water accumulation…
The last gable side is the one with the chimney in it and the guys have told us that the wood all around it will need to be replaced too. So the job won’t be done until at the earliest next Thursday because the work crew has some special training they need to attend that is in Grants Pass next Tuesday and Wednesday.
Last Friday I went to the RaceDeck website and used their floor design tool. When I was done I clicked the Submit for Quote button. Like last time I did this we have revised the design a couple of times over the weekend, playing with the check size, adding more carpet pieces, etc. By Monday I had still not heard back about the request for a quote, so I started calculating costs based on the pricing I received back 2-1/2 years ago. In the end I have decided to keep those 24 carpet tiles in between the two “designated” parking areas, it didn’t seem like it was worth and extra $90 (in 2017 pricing) to buy the blue and silver free-flow tiles to make one big checked area.
After finalizing the design for the last time, I called the 1-800-NUMBER to go ahead and place my order. Turns out this is sort of a misnomer, the person who answered the phone was just a front person. She took my information and what I wanted to buy and said she’d be passing it along to a Sales Representative and they would get back to me. Twenty-four hours later – crickets… I’m not real sure, but I think this might have been the way it went in July 2017 too.
Good Things Come in Mini Packages Edition. As of Monday, January 27, 2020 at 9:00 PM pacific time:
| Track | Daily | Crush |
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| 1992 Rover Mini Cooper | 2004 Mini Cooper S MC40 | 1967 Austin Mini Moke |
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| Vintage racing here I come. | John Cooper Works baby! | What the heck is this? |
The new house has a two-car garage compared to our old one-car back in Aiken. When we moved, I packed up the RaceDeck tiles and brought them with us. I had tossed a few of them out that I had to cut up to fit around the cabinets we had in Aiken.
Today we had a nice sunny mid-forties day, so this afternoon I backed the Mini out of the garage and installed the tiles that I brought with us for it to park on. The existing free flow tiles will help hide the water we are bringing in with us when we have been driving on the snowy roads. Because the Miata is just sitting for now, water is not a problem, yet.
Tomorrow we will order the flooring for the other half of the garage. The one side of the garage is deeper than the other because somewhere along the way a previous owner stole several feet to add a downstairs bathroom. The deeper side is even deeper than the RaceDeck flooring will go and that is where there is a workbench and shelving for tools and storage.
