Update #2
Here sits the lonely little teardrop without a frame, or axle! It sits on 4 dollies so I can move it back and forth in front of the garage doors! (Yup! That's the Effie under the cover in the garage!)
The axle came back and they were able to free it. Now we have work to do on the frame before we can put it back on.
I started grinding on the frame to get it ready to paint and put on a new hitch. Not to be! It needed more than a new hitch - it needed a new tongue!
I ground away at welds to try to smooth them out, only to find that they were there for a reason! There were cracks and holes under these welds! Consequently, the tongue had to be cut off, and a new one will have to be made.
Check out this hole! Just an example of what I ran into, and why the entire tongue has to be replaced!
. . . and here's another one! These were the two worse spots, but bad enough to replace the tongue.If it weren't for my son-in-law, Dan, and my great neighbor, Steve, this project wouldn't even be off the drawing board! I owe a lot to these two!
Just added a few more pictures. Want to see them? On to the next page!
first page of project, January 1999
#1 updated 03 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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