Not much on a night, but some people were in the shop, so had to talk, eat cake and discuss music!
Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr
onsdag den 9. maj 2012
Front brackets
Tonight I made a set of brackets to go from the cowl to the subframe:
Not much on a night, but some people were in the shop, so had to talk, eat cake and discuss music!
Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr
Not much on a night, but some people were in the shop, so had to talk, eat cake and discuss music!
Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr
torsdag den 3. maj 2012
Long time...
After a long, turbulent time, I was finally abe to work on the car yesterday night!
I started fabrikating the brackets between the cowl and subframe, but didn't get to take pictures - so this was a short post, just to let you know, I'm still working on it!
I started fabrikating the brackets between the cowl and subframe, but didn't get to take pictures - so this was a short post, just to let you know, I'm still working on it!
torsdag den 19. april 2012
Thursday morning - almost home!
I didn't get much sleep on the flight from Charlotte to Frankfurt, but technically my day was also first about to end, when I landed in the german morning sun.
I was a bit worried about the arrival and condition of my back pack, as I had to check it in at the counter in San Francisco. But after a while at the bagage band in Frankfurt, it poped up from underground and I could proceed to my final check in.
I went by the counter, where Devrim was at work, and I got to show him a couple of pictures, while he printed out my boarding pass. He then walked me to my gate, and before we said goodbye, I wrote him the link to this blog.
Then I walked through security, found my gate, and that leads me up to now, where I'm sitting and typing this, as I'm waiting to board the last flight for me this time around.
I want to thank all the people, who in some way made this trip possible.
I will blog again, when I have cleared customs in Copenhagen, and when I'm setteled in my new appartment.
Thanks for reading!
Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr
I was a bit worried about the arrival and condition of my back pack, as I had to check it in at the counter in San Francisco. But after a while at the bagage band in Frankfurt, it poped up from underground and I could proceed to my final check in.
I went by the counter, where Devrim was at work, and I got to show him a couple of pictures, while he printed out my boarding pass. He then walked me to my gate, and before we said goodbye, I wrote him the link to this blog.
Then I walked through security, found my gate, and that leads me up to now, where I'm sitting and typing this, as I'm waiting to board the last flight for me this time around.
I want to thank all the people, who in some way made this trip possible.
I will blog again, when I have cleared customs in Copenhagen, and when I'm setteled in my new appartment.
Thanks for reading!
Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr
Wednesday 18th - the shortest day of my life!
I left Sean and Alisons house as quiet as I could, and the cab was ready to pick me up at 4:25 am.
I then checked in and as I was there early, I sat and waited for around 2 hours. Not much happens at that time in the morning...
The 4,5 hours flight to Charlotte was not upsetting, I got a couple hours of sleep, and when we landed, it was around 3 o'clock in the afternoon, already here my day was three hours shorter. I got on my flight to Frankfurt, and after 8 hours, I was in Frankfurt, where it was around 7:30 in the morning. That made wednesday the 18th of April 2012 the shortest day in my life, counting only around 15 hours!
Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr
I then checked in and as I was there early, I sat and waited for around 2 hours. Not much happens at that time in the morning...
The 4,5 hours flight to Charlotte was not upsetting, I got a couple hours of sleep, and when we landed, it was around 3 o'clock in the afternoon, already here my day was three hours shorter. I got on my flight to Frankfurt, and after 8 hours, I was in Frankfurt, where it was around 7:30 in the morning. That made wednesday the 18th of April 2012 the shortest day in my life, counting only around 15 hours!
Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr
onsdag den 18. april 2012
Tuesday 17th - shopping and preparing home journey
It was kind of weird getting up at Sean and Alison's, without drinking my morning coffee with Sean. I'm gonna miss those mornings, but I might start drinking my morning coffee before leaving home, instead of at work.
I wanted to cook Sean and Alison a meal before leaving as to say thanks, so I went with Alison to Canyon market on Diamond Street, a very kuul little urban market with alot of ecological and enviormental aware products. Alison has some allergies, so I had to consult with her in order to pick out the right foods to cook. We ended up with a pair of ribeyes, two butternut squashes, a bundle of kale and some spinatch and prociuto to mix with a little of another kind of squash, Alison had back home.
Back home, Alison had some lunch before she had to go to work for about 4 hours, and I started baking these great tasting Chébé breads for me to bring to the airport. Alison gave me a jar of her processed pistacios, which she makes from all neutral pistacios, then she soaks them in salted water for a day, spreads them out on a baking plate, and bake them at the lowest temperature for about a day. That proces makes the otherwise hard digestable skin of nuts go more soft, and it holds the nutritions in the nut.
When the bread was in the oven, I ordered a taxi to take me to the airport in the night, as I was supposed to leave their house at 4:30 am, in order to get to the check-in at the airport in time. After that I started blogging, as I haven't been doing it so regularly up untill then, and as I was in the middle of blogging about saturday night, Alison was back home - the 4 hours had gone by so fast! So I finished up, and did the dishes, as I had promised her, before she left, and when Sean got home a little later, we started cooking. Alison baked the butternut squashes and sauted the other squash with the prociuto and spinach, Sean grilled the ribeyes, and I washed and riped the kale in to pieces to cook it, before applying some gee (clearified butter) and some yeast.
It was a feast! Every little mouthfull wtasted so great! The grilled ribeye steak had the right amount of grill to it, the sauted squash with the spinach and prociuto was a fantastic combination of vegetables and smoked meat, the kale with the yeast tastes freshing, and the baked butternut squash was sweet enough to make dessert.
After dinner I packed up my things, and we then saw the Gene Winfield movie, I bought at Vintage Ford. A good movie, telling alot about the man, that are still going strong with work days up to 18 hours a day at the age of 84!! Impressive, to say the least!
After the movie it was kind of weird to have to say goodbye without actually leaving the house. But I saw no reason for Sean and Alison to get up in the middle of the night just to send me in the cab, so we had our goodbyes at a little to eleven o'clock. I am going to miss them alot, I really think highly of them, helping me out and around in the area. The trip would not have been anyway near as good without them! I thank you guys alot!!
I went to bed for about five hours, before getting up again.
Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr
I wanted to cook Sean and Alison a meal before leaving as to say thanks, so I went with Alison to Canyon market on Diamond Street, a very kuul little urban market with alot of ecological and enviormental aware products. Alison has some allergies, so I had to consult with her in order to pick out the right foods to cook. We ended up with a pair of ribeyes, two butternut squashes, a bundle of kale and some spinatch and prociuto to mix with a little of another kind of squash, Alison had back home.
Back home, Alison had some lunch before she had to go to work for about 4 hours, and I started baking these great tasting Chébé breads for me to bring to the airport. Alison gave me a jar of her processed pistacios, which she makes from all neutral pistacios, then she soaks them in salted water for a day, spreads them out on a baking plate, and bake them at the lowest temperature for about a day. That proces makes the otherwise hard digestable skin of nuts go more soft, and it holds the nutritions in the nut.
When the bread was in the oven, I ordered a taxi to take me to the airport in the night, as I was supposed to leave their house at 4:30 am, in order to get to the check-in at the airport in time. After that I started blogging, as I haven't been doing it so regularly up untill then, and as I was in the middle of blogging about saturday night, Alison was back home - the 4 hours had gone by so fast! So I finished up, and did the dishes, as I had promised her, before she left, and when Sean got home a little later, we started cooking. Alison baked the butternut squashes and sauted the other squash with the prociuto and spinach, Sean grilled the ribeyes, and I washed and riped the kale in to pieces to cook it, before applying some gee (clearified butter) and some yeast.
It was a feast! Every little mouthfull wtasted so great! The grilled ribeye steak had the right amount of grill to it, the sauted squash with the spinach and prociuto was a fantastic combination of vegetables and smoked meat, the kale with the yeast tastes freshing, and the baked butternut squash was sweet enough to make dessert.
After dinner I packed up my things, and we then saw the Gene Winfield movie, I bought at Vintage Ford. A good movie, telling alot about the man, that are still going strong with work days up to 18 hours a day at the age of 84!! Impressive, to say the least!
After the movie it was kind of weird to have to say goodbye without actually leaving the house. But I saw no reason for Sean and Alison to get up in the middle of the night just to send me in the cab, so we had our goodbyes at a little to eleven o'clock. I am going to miss them alot, I really think highly of them, helping me out and around in the area. The trip would not have been anyway near as good without them! I thank you guys alot!!
I went to bed for about five hours, before getting up again.
Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr
Monday 16th - shipping problems, the Walt Disney store and a closed garage door
Monday I went back to the morning ritual of having a cup of coffee with Sean, before he left for work.
After that I started trying to figure something out with shipping of my brakes. First Alison was kind to drive me to the postal office, but the suitcase was too heavy and exceeded their limit. But I got to send a few postcards. Alison then drove me home, took off for work, and I went online in search of a cheap way of shipping the parts back home. Well, let's just say, I could have bought two sets of brakes, if I lived in California! The first shipping price was around $1000 with UPS, I then tried their freight department and got a price of only $310. To make sure, I called their service phoneline, but they told me, the cheap price is for business to business only, so I couldn't use the $310 shipping as a private person. I then tried FedEx, but they wanted $1400! Being desperate, I tried GLS, whom I have shipped something with inside Denmark, but they only ship in Europe. So I ended up with a combined shipping of UPS and ShopUSA being the cheapest way, as that would cost me a little less than $600. But as I don't have the money for that ontop of buying the parts, I had to ask Sean, if I could leave the brakes at his place for a while, and have him helpng me ship them to me, when I'm back in Denmark.
So kind of down, I went by BART to go to the Union Square, to go and visit the Walt Disney store, as I was getting Tina and Michael a pressent for being so helpfull with the money transfer. But that place is really nice and filled with a lot of Disney merchandise.
After that I went by Sean's work, Melrose motors, as he had told me about a guy in that neighborhood, who builds 4-banger engines and who has a lot of rare speed parts for them as well. But when we walked over there, the garage door was closed and the guy didn't seem to be there. So we went back to Seans work, and started talking about his projects and plans.
Sean has, besides the Nova, a '56 Chevy pick up truck at the garage at home, he wants to get finished, a '52 Chevy at work, that used to be a four door and is now being chopped up for parts for Steves '52, and he recently bought a '26 tudor body, for which he has different plans of what to do. He bought the front end of a early '50s Ford 1/2 ton pick up with a flat head truck V8 and transmission, which he is thinking of using, but he also have a 390 Cadillac V8 and a NOS (new, old stock- an old part, that has never been used) Iskendrian '505' camshaft for the Cad engine. Then he needs a good frame, but he got some frame pieces laying around, which he might weld together to make a frame of his own. Oh yeah, he also have a '70s styled Honda powered chopper, he bought of a friend, who build it for some local bike show. I mean, it's like this everywhere over here- if you have one, you usually have more than one! And Sean seems to be productive, so I guess, he will have both cars finished in a few years, and the bike sooner, as he is going to comute back and forth to work in the winter. Looking forward to see them, once they are finished!
We then went home, made dinner and then we saw the movie 'Boys of Bonneville', which is about Ab Jenkins effort for making the Bonneville salt flats into a place for land speed records, and later his son Marv, who spend his last days restoring the farthers old racecar- a fantastic movie with amazing people!
After that I told Sean and Alison, that I was going to sleep in as to get some sleep prior to the flight, and we went to bed.
Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr
After that I started trying to figure something out with shipping of my brakes. First Alison was kind to drive me to the postal office, but the suitcase was too heavy and exceeded their limit. But I got to send a few postcards. Alison then drove me home, took off for work, and I went online in search of a cheap way of shipping the parts back home. Well, let's just say, I could have bought two sets of brakes, if I lived in California! The first shipping price was around $1000 with UPS, I then tried their freight department and got a price of only $310. To make sure, I called their service phoneline, but they told me, the cheap price is for business to business only, so I couldn't use the $310 shipping as a private person. I then tried FedEx, but they wanted $1400! Being desperate, I tried GLS, whom I have shipped something with inside Denmark, but they only ship in Europe. So I ended up with a combined shipping of UPS and ShopUSA being the cheapest way, as that would cost me a little less than $600. But as I don't have the money for that ontop of buying the parts, I had to ask Sean, if I could leave the brakes at his place for a while, and have him helpng me ship them to me, when I'm back in Denmark.
So kind of down, I went by BART to go to the Union Square, to go and visit the Walt Disney store, as I was getting Tina and Michael a pressent for being so helpfull with the money transfer. But that place is really nice and filled with a lot of Disney merchandise.
After that I went by Sean's work, Melrose motors, as he had told me about a guy in that neighborhood, who builds 4-banger engines and who has a lot of rare speed parts for them as well. But when we walked over there, the garage door was closed and the guy didn't seem to be there. So we went back to Seans work, and started talking about his projects and plans.
Sean has, besides the Nova, a '56 Chevy pick up truck at the garage at home, he wants to get finished, a '52 Chevy at work, that used to be a four door and is now being chopped up for parts for Steves '52, and he recently bought a '26 tudor body, for which he has different plans of what to do. He bought the front end of a early '50s Ford 1/2 ton pick up with a flat head truck V8 and transmission, which he is thinking of using, but he also have a 390 Cadillac V8 and a NOS (new, old stock- an old part, that has never been used) Iskendrian '505' camshaft for the Cad engine. Then he needs a good frame, but he got some frame pieces laying around, which he might weld together to make a frame of his own. Oh yeah, he also have a '70s styled Honda powered chopper, he bought of a friend, who build it for some local bike show. I mean, it's like this everywhere over here- if you have one, you usually have more than one! And Sean seems to be productive, so I guess, he will have both cars finished in a few years, and the bike sooner, as he is going to comute back and forth to work in the winter. Looking forward to see them, once they are finished!
We then went home, made dinner and then we saw the movie 'Boys of Bonneville', which is about Ab Jenkins effort for making the Bonneville salt flats into a place for land speed records, and later his son Marv, who spend his last days restoring the farthers old racecar- a fantastic movie with amazing people!
After that I told Sean and Alison, that I was going to sleep in as to get some sleep prior to the flight, and we went to bed.
Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr
Sunday 15th- pier meet and cruize San Francisco
Sunday morning I got up to check out from the fancy hotel room and eat breakfast, before Sean picked me up at around 9 o'clock. Again a great breakfast, had a bowl of oatmeal and an omelet with tomatos, spinach and ham with toast on the side.
Sean picked me up at the now half empty car lot, and we took off. This was my first ride in the Nova, and I'm starting to really like that car! The sound from the three carburators, the headers and the exhaust system makes a great symphomy!
We went out to a small, local meetup, arranged by the carclub 'Los Boulevardos', and after a while, the cars started cruizing in to the parking lot, that otherwise was filling up with the cars of Saints fans, as there were a baseball game going on close by. There were some really cool looking cars, and even a guy had come down from Vancouver to visit and have his VW van striped by a local painter, who also had done the impressive work on a '60 Lincoln, I had seen in a magazine back home.
After hanging out there for a while and my fourth cup of coffee that morning, Sean and I went to pick up Alison close by, as they would take me round San Francisco to see the area surrounding the bay. It was a nice tour, although the weather was a bit cloudy and foggy. Sean and Alison took me up to the place, where they held their wedding ceremony at the beach, and the spot was beautiful! With the good wheater, they had that day, I can see, why they have such good memories from that day.
After a couple of hours of driving around, we headed back home, and Sean and I saw the movie "The road to Bonneville" with the two Deuce coupes from the 'Rolling Bones shop', which I had never seen. It was fun to see, and must have been a blast taking that long trip in those old cars! I'd like to be able to trust my cars that much one day, that I'd have no troubles to go on a long trip like that.
Then we had dinner, talked for a while, and went to bed.
Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr
Sean picked me up at the now half empty car lot, and we took off. This was my first ride in the Nova, and I'm starting to really like that car! The sound from the three carburators, the headers and the exhaust system makes a great symphomy!
We went out to a small, local meetup, arranged by the carclub 'Los Boulevardos', and after a while, the cars started cruizing in to the parking lot, that otherwise was filling up with the cars of Saints fans, as there were a baseball game going on close by. There were some really cool looking cars, and even a guy had come down from Vancouver to visit and have his VW van striped by a local painter, who also had done the impressive work on a '60 Lincoln, I had seen in a magazine back home.
After hanging out there for a while and my fourth cup of coffee that morning, Sean and I went to pick up Alison close by, as they would take me round San Francisco to see the area surrounding the bay. It was a nice tour, although the weather was a bit cloudy and foggy. Sean and Alison took me up to the place, where they held their wedding ceremony at the beach, and the spot was beautiful! With the good wheater, they had that day, I can see, why they have such good memories from that day.
After a couple of hours of driving around, we headed back home, and Sean and I saw the movie "The road to Bonneville" with the two Deuce coupes from the 'Rolling Bones shop', which I had never seen. It was fun to see, and must have been a blast taking that long trip in those old cars! I'd like to be able to trust my cars that much one day, that I'd have no troubles to go on a long trip like that.
Then we had dinner, talked for a while, and went to bed.
Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr
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