Update #1
Can you believe this license plate was still available?? . . . and now it's mine! I made a list of all the plates I would want on this, and my number one choice was available! Too good to be true!
Well, the cabinets are torn out, and the tension curtain rod is bracing the sides! New cabinets are sketched are ready to be built as soon as the axle and wheels can be put back on.
We've taken the axle off ~ you know the one that is frozen ~ and it is presently at a shop in Bakersfield. If they can't free it they will build a new one for this little project. Before I took it in we cut off one end and applied lubricants to see if we could free it, with no luck!
I'm busy grinding the excess welds from prior repairs off of the tongue to see if it is salvagable. If not, another tongue will have to be made.
first page of project, January 1999
#2 updated 13 February 1999
#3 updated 20 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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