My fancy balsamic vinegar arrives today, @NerdAlert
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So last fall I’m way up north talking to a guy I met up there about the lights on my trailer. We both agreed that we should have LED lights on our trailers instead of the ‘works 50% of the time’ crap they install on boat trailers. Gonna get around to that any day now.
Last weekend, (six months later) up north again, talking to the same guy as I’m lying in the dirt fixing trailer lights. Again. And agreeing with him that we should both have led lights on our trailers, but never actually get around to it.
Arriving today, finally, new led lights for my boat trailer lol. Next time I see this guy, no more excuses.
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Same one as before?
I would probably average a bottle a month if I didn’t ration myself.
Yeah, the 100ml bottle of the ‘cheap’ stuff, some day I’ll splurge but not today. I probably could go through a bottle a month, it’s really good. But normally I only think about it when I have fresh bread I want to dip into it, or when we get fancy cheese, which we don’t do all that often.
Mental note: my nieces were over the moon with my Thai food, next time they are up I’m gonna blow their mind with charcuterie.
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I bought all three the first time, I use the most expensive small one verrrrrry sparingly, and as a result I still have at least half of that bottle left. The top has a stopper with the option to only pour out drops at a time. I like to add a few drops to a bowl of raspberries for a snack. Also good on goat cheese, blistered tomatoes, would be great on ice cream if I ate it.
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Austin?
Ah. MG.
1960 or so MGA 1600?
Cute. I don’t know anything about cars but that looks nice.
Seller says 1960, Hagerty says 1959 based on VIN. Yes to the rest, MGA 1600.
It is my starter classic.
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Got a new(er) car the other day. Dropped my old one off to investigate a concerning engine noise. Turned out that the engine basically needed to be rebuilt. 
So after talking with J2 and Jaspbrother, I decided to trade up. I feel gross for having a bigger payment now (and because with no leverage I probably got hosed). But the new(er) one has advantages to it.
Noice.
I’ve had two 50-60’s era cars. Both were catastrophes.
I had a 1961 olds f-85. Car was MINT. Like 50k miles on it. Everything was original and working.
Bastard that sold it to me blew the engine between the time I test drove it and the time I picked it up. Money, gone.In retrsopect I should’ve restored the engine, don’t recall why I didn’t.
then I had a buick super. The front grill was wild. Took it to my mechanic, he put it on the lift and said ‘that’s what I call restored-needs restoring’. I sold that one as a parts car.
What kind of TLC are we talking? Can’t tell too much from one photo, the body looks clean and I don’t see any rust, the chrome appears to be in order (bonus points for the luggage rack).
I love old cars, maybe once I get my old house in order I’d consider buying one. My daily driver for five years in the late 90s and early 2000s was a 1966 Ford Galaxie, it was super fun to own and I learned so much about how cars work.
Be sure to let us know the first time you get bloody trying to fix something, lol.
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It’s English, so, new wiring, I’m guessing. New engine, new floor, new suspension, new transmission, …
That reminds me, I used to love… I can’t recall if it was Tom or Ray, one of the Car Talk guys had an MG TD he used to talk about.
friday saturday I drained the winter water from our above ground pool. it’s an intex 20’x 10’ x 4’. was cleaning it out and it was fully empty. . on track to have it full and ready by end of weekend.mrs f said “hey, i thought we said we’d get the new bigger round one this year.”
picked it up monday at 9am. 20’ round, 52" deep. monday noon started taking apart rectangle. re-levelling the larger area. assembling. done at 7PM (with some neighbor help for needed muscle). a small adjustment today to get underliner pushed under an edge that had overshot the provided underliner and we are filling today. I am sore as heck all over.
so to the thread title: larger above ground pool and wife wanted it.
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I’ve been all wishy washy about buying a Squier Bass VI guitar. I put it in the cart last night, but didn’t pull the trigger. One of the main motivations of buying it is that I’ve been given some Guitar Center gift cards and I want to spend them before Guitar Center goes into bankruptcy and the cards become worthless, which I think is expected again pretty soon. It’s the only thing I could think of that I’m really interested in right now. But 1) the gift cards wouldn’t cover the whole cost, so I’d be spending some cash on it too 2) it’s very much a “specialty” instrument and if it got regular use, it would be just to be weird and different 3) the quality, as delivered, has been reported to be abysmal, so it would end up as a project, and I really don’t need another project right now 4) It’s kind of big and heavy and I’ve been moving toward small and light 5) I’ve really been trying to cut down.
OK, that’s a lot of reasons why not. The why is because it would be cool. And I’ve got some gift cards.
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Could very well be that the seller was told that it was purchased new in 1960 where the source could’ve not been savvy enough to realize that model year doesn’t always correspond to the year when it was purchased new.
I would go with the VIN info to determine its model year.
IIRC, I believe it was Clack that had that car.
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Why?
You forgot that part . . . or did I miss it in an earlier post?
Ha!
Overall in decent condition. The TLC is needed to get it into pristine condition. A few interior repairs are needed, but an entire new interior refurb kit was included (in tan) so I’ll probably just redo the whole thing and will need to replace the soft top to match. Exterior has some paint issues in a couple of different places. I don’t know yet if that means a touch up or I’ll eventually want to strip it down and repaint the entire body. I didn’t experience it, but the prior owner says it occasionally has issues starting when it is cold out - so that will clearly need to investigating at some point.
Overall it looks good and runs well so I can putter around in it without doing anything, while having a few projects to work on over time.