Update #3
After I got the axle back, I had to clean it up so I could get paint it black ~ not that anyone will ever notice! This is a picture of it before I painted it.
. . .and this is it all nice and shiny! At least you know I really painted it!
After the tongue was made, the hitch attached and put on the frame, this is what it looked like! Sure clean looking!
This, my friend, is the new tongue and hitch! Thanks to a great neighbor, Steve, this whole project is falling into place!
This is the frame, after the paint was applied . . .and just before the snow came!
. . . and this is the tongue attached to the frame (of course), and painted all nice and pretty!
Teardrop Restoration January 1999
#1 updated 03 February 1999
#2 updated 13 February 1999
#4 updated 28 February 1999
#5 updated 04 March 1999
#6 updated 08 April 1999
#7 updated 16 April 1999
#8 updated 12 May 1999
#9 updated 31 May 1999
#10 updated 15 June 1999
#11 updated 15 June 1999
#12 updated 24 June 1999
#13 updated 14 July1999
#14 and final updated 10 October 1999
Expenses involved in this restoration,
article that appeared in Mechanix Illustrated, January 1953
updated 14 March 1999
...and the credit goes to: updated 10 October 1999
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