Davison Michigan has a down town show just about every Friday night. Rain and Back to the bricks tune is all that interfers with it in the summer.
This was the first car show we attended. the man who owned this 51 Buick was a very nioce man.
Lots of money spent on paint chrome and polish but vice grips hold the hood up rather than a hood strut.
A super stock Dodge but not shiney red of little old lady fame.
AMC AMX the 2 seater version of the Javelin, with a Hudson next door.
A Buick Grand Sport.
75 Dodge challanger, this Friday night there were so many cars many were sent to the city lot behind city hall to display.
A yet to be finished Chevy Pick up.
56 Chevy rug rat hauler.
A very clean Pontiac GTO, also sent to thr city lot.
Mercury Clyclone , another city lot car.
Mercury AFX car anothe rcity lot car.
Old's Cutlass Another City lot car.
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More to follow from Davison.
😀 Al
As a kid I grew up on a lot of foraged, fished and hunted foods. The forage foods most every family in our area used were cow slips, a green found in marshy area. Of course there were all kinds of mushroom all thru the summer. I know not why but there was wild asparagus we would pick tons of mom fixed it fresh for us and canned a whole bunch, not every family had that growing wild in their area. I often wonder if at one time there was an asparagus farm near by.
In the spring when the suckers were making spawning runs were going on people staked out the road side bridges build fires and speared suckers as they came up stream to spawn. Probably 99% were canned and used like tuna and salmon. Many a man and boy would be found wading the shallows of a lake when the carp were spawning, spearing them, using them same as the suckers. I can not remember how many afternoons we worked to get chores done early then drive several hours to dip smelt from a stream running out of lake Huron to the east and lake Michigan out of the west. I remember many a day spent with scissors gutting smelt that got canned. OH GAWD how many days in a row did we have fried smelt dinners during those times.
Then there were the day trips to those same streams where we used Multa hook perch rigs and sat elbow to elbow with others stream side catching perch going off to spawn up stream.
July and August would find us afield again as it was berry picking time. Black berries so big and juicy and seedy but made some great pies and short cake. Of course like every thing in those days unless your were really rich you caned for use at other times. We were one of the few family's who also picked the winter green berries. Elder berry's seemed to grow here along creek beds and marshy areas. there were wild apples to pick many were from areas where at one time there was an old logging camp and apple trees had grown from cores thrown out by cooks. In July we got what we called transparents a yellow skin apple very sweet and juicy. the Rustis were prized by my mom and she caned a bunch of them . They had a ruff brownish skin and were a firm apple. had many a pie made from them.
I do not believe many do much of these things today. Most probably don't even own the amount of canning jars my mom kept for the garden harvest.
I remember a time back about 1963 my mom told my aunt she had almost 3 thousand quart jars and almost as many pint ones.
😀 Al
We attended a bunch of cars shows in 2017, mostly we took our Buick and display it. We did a couple where we went as spectators only because of living on a gravel road and it being soupy and not wanting to get the stuff on the bottom side of the Buick.
Any way I have a bunch of pictures if you like to see old cars from the 20's to 1990's.
🤔 Al
Knew from the first day I was able to fool with the Buick back in August 2016 the paint was dead and there was no bringing back the shine even close to a new car of the paint.
Started making the rounds looking for some one to paint it for us. Love the work a local body shop has did for us so took in in to them to look at and give us a quote near the end of May.
Told us it was a really well kept car and would love to do the work but they are a collision shop so could not spend the time required to do the job in a timly matter and gave us a tip on how much we should expect to pay max for the job.
We started to go to car shows and I suppose a lot of people thought I was on the crazy side. It would go some thing like this.
Is that your car, reply would be yes or no. A yes got. Who did the paint job on it that looks great. If you were to go to car shows you would see many are like me long in the tooth so I would get a friend but he passed several years ago, or a brother with the same passed several years ago.
One fellow told me of a guy who it turned out lived near us. Stoped in to see him, A real ego manic guy. Well I can do it but if there is any rust i do not fill the holes with bondo. All the chrome has to be removed too. come back in September when I will probably need a winter project can give you a quote then.
His Ego told us to forget him.
Next guy we were steered to seemed to be a real nice guy and gave us a quote then told us he was tied up till some time in August or Sept and took our name and number so he could call when he was ready for us. Well it came to the middle of Oct. and he had not called so back on the hunt for a car/truck painter.
I had asked this car owner who had did his paint and he said Dave Dillon 18 years ago. As you can see it is a beauty.
We ran into him again at another car show and he said Dave had his car at the show and also an other guys car he painted was there.
This is that friends 57 Chevy wagon Dave painted 12 years ago. You can see the blue flames on the side of Daves Pontiac in the picture also.
Daves Pontiac GTO painted in 1980. the reflextions do not do it justice.
So we made an appointment to take our Buick and see if he would do it and give us a quote. He told us he would drive his wifes car to the shop that day so we could see it. It is a 1967 Pontiac Tempest rag top he painted 26 years ago an light baby blue with its black top, sure was pretty.
Dave said he would be happy to do our car and said how it would be stripped of all chrome ever bit of old paint removed by sanding to bare metal includeing the door headers inside and out, door jams,under sides of the hood and trunk. New door seal rubbers installed, I bought those and the new bumper close outs for it myself.
Car is to get a sealer coat then 3 coats of sandable primer after a ding and dent search was done and bumped out. Once the primer was on and last sanding was done it gets a total hand wash from top to bottom and dried, set for 24 hours and then 3 coats of the two tone color applied, a painted on strip is added to look just like it does now but paint instead of tape. Then last is 5 coats of clear, the color looks to be a foot down in there some place.
Comes with a life time guarantee againest cracking, peeling, flaking and blistering.
We left it Yesterday and I am already looking forward to have the pictures roll in on its progress. I do have to drive up one day and get the power antenna once it is figured out how to remove it so I can repair it.
This in our Buick at the Fair Grove Michigan show early Sept.
😃 Al
All of a sudden there was a hair curling goose bumping racket, sounded like at the base of my window but I knew it was just inside the pines by the house maybe 50 feet away. A pack of coyote's raising a ruckus. I jump out of bed and hit the switches to the flood lights and grab the swift and step out the back door in hopes of seeing any number of them heading off to the back of the place. Nothing showed so they were probably going to the west along the creek and ran into one of Kare's garage cats.
I go back inside to find Kare standing in the living room looking out the window and she says where were they at. I tell her I thought they were right next to my bed way it sounded, I have heard them often but never this close before, out behind the pole barn and maybe the field next door but they woke me up good this time. I look at the clock and it is 2:38 AM.
Once I know Eric is up and about around 7:30, I am going to call him and see if we can set up something for this evening maybe starting a bit in the afternoon and we can do several sets in the area.
Also decided I was kind of dumb standing outside with a rifle in hopes of seeing a coyote heading to the back, all I could have did with the rifle unless they were walking slow is hurry them along. I will now have Charles in the room with me while sleeping. I bet when the flood lights came on they quit partying and left the area. I never did get back to sleep, found a decent movie on the tube.
😀. Al
