1947 Chevy Fleetline Aerosedan: Company...

That looks ore like a plant trailer than a car trailer!
Should'nt bend anyway

Was the tractor part of the deal ?

Another week down, a slightly late update, it's been eventful.

So since the last update, on Saturday my son & I went to collect the trailer. I took a collection of tools with in order to fix lights, etc, just in case. In addition, I took an older trailer board that I had (even though it's lead would obviously be too short).

When we arrived, we were greeted by Ken, the father of the seller, very friendly, I reversed up with my son guiding me, and Ken quickly hooked up the trailer, lights, etc. I got my son to operate the lights while I checked them and everything worked as expected. Nice pleasant surprise. The trailer has some rust, but nothing too bad, still more than worth the price. I will sort this out when I refurb the trailer after it's current duty.

Anyway, we got it home, I had to reverse up our road as it's a Close, so difficult to turn at the end, and push it down the drive. Managed to get it down the drive in the first attempt, with a minor correction. The trailer reversing muscle memory I gained years ago didn't fail me. Like threading a needle!!



Getting ready to load onto the trailer


My son went off to relax and I decided to remove the "Redneck Patent" universal fit towbar from the Aerosedan. If anyone is looking for a new towbar for their car, please feel free to make me offers.




See how the crossmember hole got slightly elongated. The bumper doesn't looked bent at all.


The hand winch on the trailer got greased and I found that a 17mm socket would fit in place of the missing handle. I then proceeded to winch the car onto the trailer recording this all. Here is a timelapse of the exercise (I cut out most of the buts where I appear so it looks like magic the way things like the winch cable move location.


Job done and trailer pushed back into position.


This added height is great, definitely more accessible, but now my pressure washer is dead!! New one ordered. I know I've been advised to take it in to professionals, but I haven't located anyone local yet and I'll be going on holiday soon so will wait till after then,.

Next up, I spent some time tidying up and moving some bits into long term storage in one of my lock ups. With the sale of the 2CV I managed to empty the 2nd lockup and can now hand that back and save a bit of cash.

After that we decided on an impromptu family barbecue, unfortunately this ended badly with our 3 year old door fracturing a bone in leg on the trampoline, so 3 hours spent in A&E later we had an invalid on our hands. They said it is a small fracture so hopefully at fracture clinic on Thursday they'll remove the temporary cast and not put another on or the family summer sun holiday is in jeopardy.

On Sunday I managed to spend a few hours continuing the cleaning of the car, which included large amounts of dust and sand under the carpets and in crevices everywhere. (No more dead mice found yet, but I did find grass stuffed into a location that I can't really reach). I removed some of the sound deadening. It is my intention to remove the sound deadening on the floor as well as this can be replaced with a dynamat type product.

Example of soil


Removing some sound deadening

Perfect! Well done Sir!

Cheers

Matt

Oh believe me, there was mouse poo!!  But I don't think this lot.

Thanks, I'll bear hat in mind, will be tackling this aspect after summer hols...

Things will slow down a bit over the next few weeks...

Saw that.  I'd have been s...ing myself the whole time.  Having said that, back in my student days when my car's engine when bang in a rural area I borrowed the farmer's truck where we were visiting and loaded the car via a dirt embankment and some wood, and then offloaded back in town by reversing up to the local garage's four post lift and pushing the car back onto the that. 

The change in height due to suspension dropping/lifting and weight transfers is a bit scary.

Hi All,

Sorry about the long wait, but as Grizz alluded to, I was out of decent internet reach, so had to make do with this view from my sun lounger.


Well, after two weeks of working on my tan and drinking foreign beer, I arrived back in the early hours of last Monday morning, and needing to be at work at 9am meant no time to think about anything else, let alone get enough sleep.

Well, as my workbench is covered in a myriad of stuff, including Chevy parts, I thought I would modify the shelves to support some of the storage boxes I bought. Then I could put the stuff in boxes and clear the top of the workbench. I started this on Thursday night and realised I needed some bigger pieces of wood. Luckily on Friday the office next to ours cleared out some desks, so I grabbed two desk tops from the skip. Here's the result.

Shelves under workbench


Boxes on workbench shelves


So, Saturday morning I figured I would go put some of the other stuff that was in the way in my lockup and then go play with the Chevy. I arrived at the lockup to find this...


Bar stewards!!!!! I called the police, but as it is not a domestic residence and there were no shiny surfaces for nice fingerprints, they advised they would not be attending. To be honest, I didn't expect any different. Only item missing was my (new to me) engine crane that I got about 10 days before leaving on holiday.

Well, that put paid to any fun plans for the day. Mrs K fetched our son who proceeded to help me rip the door off properly and clear the place. Result:


One consolation is that during the removal of the goods I found their e-cigarette/vaporiser, so called the cops again and a very nice SOC (Scenes of Crime) lady came by to get it. She managed to get some prints off it, and they expect it to be a good source of DNA!

That put paid to Saturday.

Well, now needing to squeeze all my curse word into a smaller space meant even more shelving needed in the home garage, so I put this into today. Another 10 boxes fit on there, I have 50 of these boxes and think I will end up using the lot. Also sorted things into the boxes.


So, unfortunately, no progress on the Chevy this weekend, and the worktop still has curse word on it...

Bad news, but at least engine cranes are replaceable.
I suppose if the lockup isn't secure, and also empty, now is the time to decide if you really need it?
What's rental on one of those tiny boxes, anyway?