What are you up to?

King pins started today. Started with just a little time while Maw maw had my boy. In just a few minutes after getting the wheels off I have a purple finger after a pickle fork and 4 pound sledge mishap. Drats!

EconoUSAparts wrote:Shipped out a a nose for Gary Larkin(Alpine Express) to make a bar out of, Sure hope all the rain they're calling for the next few days doesnt happen.

So Gary is finally going to make one of these, eh? lol

Good Luck & Have fun with the build....I did! B.W.

I'll spend some time taking the 250 6 cyl from the 70 parts van apart . Bill

Took some more parts for the A to Randy today. Other than that the weather and upholstery prison has me feeling like a jet with a sleepy ATC.

BvrWally wrote:

EconoUSAparts wrote:Shipped out a a nose for Gary Larkin(Alpine Express) to make a bar out of, Sure hope all the rain they're calling for the next few days doesnt happen.

So Gary is finally going to make one of these, eh? lol

Good Luck & Have fun with the build....I did! B.W.

Wally I think you got a little hasty with your cut and pasty:-) You mixed and matched my words a bit. I shipped stuff out but not the nose yet. I still have to cut it off for Gary. Actually he has the nose panel but is missing everything below it and a bumper so Im getting him that stuff. Im making one too but out of a complete side section of an Econo pickup. I ve already got a cherry complete nose too for my own use to make another bar when I get caught up some day way down the road. I ve got a perfect A100 nose too. The plan is to someday create the Vintage Vans Cafe using those 2 and an early Chevy or GMC also. It WILL happen at some point. I plan on hinging them together and making them mobile on wheels to take to the Nats as one big bar. Im still searching for a nice Chevy nose to cut off locally.

Sorry Tim...I didn't mean it to appear that way! I chatted with Gary last evening, via PM's on Vannin.com, in regards to him building his bar! He is excited with this future project! I really like your plans as well with the "Early" front ends! You really should contact "Matchstick" and let him pop a few molds from the Early Dodge & Chevy front ends! I know these would sell like "Hot Cakes" should they appear as fiberglass, lightweight, making them more "Portable"! IMHO

Here=SUN!! YEA!! Posibiliyies are UNLIMITED. Clean garage & find all the tools again. Just dont want to beat myself up - too cold to lay on the ground as most of my work is down there and as ill be 21 again!! next week (3rd. time)
that Ol Ground is gettin closer & closer to me =HaHaHa=

Started the 69 today, nice day here. Let her run a while, if the rain ever goes away I'll be ready for cruising.

I have a small "Honey Doo" item I am working on in the kitchen, for the little Lady. Slide-out shelf under the kitchen counter. Also I have to fabricate the 6 foot connecting beam for the EconoBar project. Once completed...the Towers & "Rotating" connecting beam, will be finished to mimic "Faux Steel" girders, with rivets and all! Lights & sound effects will be installed in the Towers & Beam! Possibly some "Pneumatic" effects as well??? Time will tell, as I am designing this "supplemental" items...as I go along!!! lol

Cleaning up the bass boat and getting it ready to sell....

DanTheVanMan wrote:Cleaning up the bass boat and getting it ready to sell....

So what you going to be asking for the boat? I know I have seen what everyone else has said about how much they costs, but love to fish and am going it out of a 16 john boat now. Might be intersted if the price is within what I can afford.

Blackace, here's the basic info on her.

Not going to sell either van. I'll sell everything else before that happens!


1997 Stratos 282 DC -Dual Console Bass Boat

1997 Evinrude 150 HP motor
Stratos Pro tournament Vector hand laid hull.
3 batteries
12v Foot controlled Minn-Kota trolling motor.
(2 bank) on board charger new in 2009
Eagle in dash Fish-finder
Humminbird bow mount Fish-finder
Dual Bilge pumps
Dual live-wells
Dual rod storage compartments
Large Misc storage in front
Two medium storage boxes in rear deck
New Carpeting 2008
Tune-Up fall of 2010
Has a HD tow-able boat cover.
Custom Stratos trailer with brakes.
Many assy’s included.

NADA $8200- $9800.... Asking: $6500.00

Dan

If your looking for something closer. I know of an older 1993 in Dayton,Ohio. for $6900.00

Here's a couple others that are a bit closer to you:
http://ontario.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-boats-watercraft-powerboats-motorboats-1997-Stratos-282-W0QQAdIdZ264461869
http://pennsylvania.findanyboat.com/boats/97-stratos-282dc-bass-boat.html
http://musthaveautos.com/addetails.php?slno=15022
http://rhode-island.freeboatshopper.com/boats-parts/1997-stratos-295pedc-bassboat.html

Forgot to mention. It's a Stratos Pro tournament so it's got a large 37 gal. fuel tank for fishing 3-day tournaments without re-fueling. Of course I only put 10 gal. in and fish for two weekends and has a 7'7" Beam allowing two adults to fish in front or back together without rocking the boat. Has a Evinrude V6 Intruder 150. Both fuel and oil injected.

Don it looks like it came out nice. Weather sure looks great there. Bill

hey man what size slab is that and how much would that cost?I have a 18x 22 building that i need to get a concrete floor so i can work on my 66 chevy.

18'x22' @ 4" thick would take 5 yards. about $600.00 delivered and mixed. you would be there a week mixing sackrete and probably cost more.

Dan,very fair price on you boat.Buddy of mine went the same route your goin.He had a Stratos '92 274 fish/ski,in as good of shape as yours,brought $5K.the one thing he misses is stability of the glass boat as opposed to aluminum.
Don,first pics you had,I thought thats a lot of pieces for the lil Honda ya got.Didn't realize it was a big bike.Turned out good,bud.I was wonderin if you were gonna trek east with fuel as high as it is.It is that time of year for ya.Hopefully,we wont flood again this year and get to see ya.

finally made it back to garage today. head back on, intake and header on, rad in, and almost done. spent the better part of the day on the fuel pump. new cam has no lobe for fuel pump. had to make a block off plate, and bolt an electric pump in its place. had an extra one on shelf so i made it work but it has a leak and after a couple hours trying to fix it, i decided to just buy another. if all goes well, tomorrow, i put on exhaust, adjust valves, fix a couple wires and connect fuel pump wire to 'switched' power source, bolt in seats and that should be it.

Thanks man !

25 years as a mason contractor. did my share of concrete too. i mixed on site plenty when it needed to be, but always used readymixed for over a yard.

I never have done this is it something you think i could do by myself?