yep, that's been the plan all along, but it has just taken longer than we expected. Rust everywhere, too long at the body shop, you know, the usual..."takes twice as long and costs twice as much as you planned"! Daniel has really learned a lesson in patience.  He only got to drive it once to school when he was a high school senior, then not at all his first year at college.  But, if things go as planned, he should have it ready to go back to college this fall (Houston to Abilene, approx. 350 miles).

"God Bless Texas"location: Houston,TX

followed pic insert instructions just now and got error msg: "could not find editor" or something close to that..any ideas??Mark

"God Bless Texas"location: Houston,TX

Mark.  I get that same error message when trying to use the site’s picture posting capabilities. An alternative option until the site’s software can be fixed is to use an outside picture host such as Photobucket or Flicker and simply link the pictures to the YBF site.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

thanks Ted; will try this or just stand by until fix is in place.Mark

"God Bless Texas"location: Houston,TX

Mark - Try this. It works for me even though the Insert Image does not.
On the picture you want to insert - right click and do a copy.
In the Post Reply box - left click to get a cursor then hold down the Ctrl key and tap the V key.

Jim
Norfolk, VA

"MABLE"
1956 Thunderbird Green / Brown Interior (ZE-XG)

"MEAN GREEN"
1956 Mainline (FG-BE)

Thanks for the tip!

"God Bless Texas"location: Houston,TX

Running with new carb...problem with trash getting into the needle probably from some hose fragments in the fuel line; learned how to check and clean out from our new carb shop, S and S in NW Houston- Allen is the best!Daniel drove it home from S and S; approx. 40 miles across the big middle of Houston with no problems...except we've learned the dizzy needs replacing! Daniel got a good lesson in setting timing and dwell from Allen also, along with some carb advise.seat belts finally in; Mom likes that!insulation beginning to go in the floorboard; most of the chrome/stainless trim on the outside in place (those clips are driving me nuts!)approx. two weeks till he leaves for soph year at college, so its down to the wire time.will try to get some recent pics up if Daniel can help me with that... the boy is golden... he hasn't met a problem he can't figure out; even taken up working on AC stuff!yep... I'm still a proud dad!Mark

"God Bless Texas"location: Houston,TX

Good to hear , you're getting close.
Keep us posted.

55f100

West Monroe,La.

replaced dizzy tonight! Set the points. Even got the thing to start afterwards...must have the timing just right as when you hit the gas pedal, it bogs down...does this symptom stir up any memories or fixes?Mark

"God Bless Texas"location: Houston,TX

I meant to say the we apparently do not have the timing quite dialed in as it bogs when revved...

"God Bless Texas"location: Houston,TX