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By YellowWing - 15 Years Ago
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I took my 56 Fairlane to the Mingus Union High School Hot Rod Club show in Cottonwood AZ today. Went with a couple friends one in a 64 Chevelle convertible and the other in a 57 Bel Air. I know, they haven't seen the light but their still friends. Both very nice cars but they will never be a Ford. Anyway come trophy time my 56 Orreo took home the Mayor's choice award while both my buds got skunked. Just goes to prove what we on this site have known all along. By the way, very nice trophies, clocks on steel silhouette of a hot rod made by the students. Mike 
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By Fordy Guy - 15 Years Ago
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Way to go! From what I can see of it, it deserves a trophy. Love those Cragars.Run em on my Bird. I'm in Winslow and years ago I used to use the old dirt strip at Rimrock Airport when Ralph Sharsh (sp) was still around. I had a Cessna 180 taildragger and used to make soft field and short field landings there to keep my nerves steady. I see in your profile you like old guns as I do. I shoot at least twice weekly with an old Colt Single action in a 38-40WCF Made in 1899. Really getting hard to find new brass anymore.Scored on 250 rounds of new unprimed Winchester brass at of all places a drugstore in Springerville.Was 44-40 cal. but will resize down to 38-40. Western Drug is a really neat drugstore and gunshop, sporting goods, fishing, you name it. If ever close to Springerville, you have to see it. Again congrats on your win over the scrubs!
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By mctim64 - 15 Years Ago
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Good job! That is a very nice car! 
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By mctim64 - 15 Years Ago
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Fordy Guy (3/27/2010)
I'm in Winslow and years ago I used to use the old dirt strip at Rimrock Airport when Ralph Sharsh (sp) was still around. I had a Cessna 180 taildragger and used to make soft field and short field landings there to keep my nerves steady. 180 is a nice airplane!  I have quite a few hours of tailwheel time myself although it was in Aeroncas and a 120, I also did some time in a buddys 195 but he would never let me land it, probably a good thing.  Here's a clip of me in the 182, much like the 180 but with "Idiot gear" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwFzdfs92ZE
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By YellowWing - 15 Years Ago
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Bud know what you mean about Western Drug, it's a MUST STOP for friends and I every time we take a motorcycle trip to the White mountains. Most of my reloading so far has been in common calibers but it's nice to know I have the capability of reloading the rarer calibers when needed. Working this weekend on a pair of Colt Navies, part of my wild Bill Hickok outfit (reason for the long hair).
I live just above the Rimrock airport (paved now). Get to watch the planes take off and land from above. I used to fly,owned with my father two 182s, 177 Cardinal, Citabria and my favorite a Stinson flying station wagon.
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By YellowWing - 15 Years Ago
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Tim, when I transitioned from tri gear to tail dragger it was in a Citabria. I was in Flagstaff AZ and there was a 15 to 20 MPH crosswind! I asked the instructor if we were really going to go flying that day. He told me we were going to wake up my lazy feet and if I could handle a tail dragger in those conditions I would be ready for anything. He was right, never had a problem with the Citabria or Stinson and always enjoyed them more than the tricycle gear planes. Mike
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By mctim64 - 15 Years Ago
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Yeah Mike, I know what you mean about the crosswind. We are pretty spoiled here in the Valley wind is light and mostly runway heading, but jump over the hills to Mojave and it's another story. I have a huge pucker story about trying to land at Rosemond, but I wont go into that. Very happy to be a pilot but I'm most proud of my tailwheel time.
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By DANIEL TINDER - 15 Years Ago
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Not really pertinent to this thread, but all the airplane talk reminds me: A childhood friend's father (local Harley shop proprietor) owned a working Ford tri-motor. I watched him take off & land many times at our local small town field. It was a thrill I'll never forget! Those three huge, un-muffled engines rattled windows for miles around.
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By mctim64 - 15 Years Ago
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Henry didn't just like cars, he was into transportation and the Tri-Motor was a great example. In their day they were as popular as the 737 is now and quite a strong bird, although kinda slow. (110mph cruise) Ford had to fight to use the coragated metal covering because Fokker also made a Tri-Motor that was very similar in design and said they had a patent on the coragations. Good thing Fokker didn't win or we wouldn't have a "Tin Goose" to go along with the "Tin Lizzy". Ford Tri-Motor 
Fokker Tri-Motor 
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By mctim64 - 15 Years Ago
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Hey Mike, sorry to hi-jack your thread. Love your car but don't get me started on airplanes. 
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By 55Birdman - 15 Years Ago
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Anybody interested I have a 172 for sale.
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By aussiebill - 15 Years Ago
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55Birdman (3/28/2010)
Anybody interested I have a 172 for sale.Would be economical on fuel!.
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By Fordy Guy - 15 Years Ago
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Mike, Glad to hear you have been to Western Drug! Now you know I'm not BS'ing. I finally gave up my flying 2 years ago, getting to hard to pass my medicals, BUT if I could get a 195 and keep my wife too I would re-up my flying! Tim I have been up in an old Stinson Station Wagon when I was about 17 or so,one of the reasons I took up flying. flew a Pacer and even a "flying rock" (Tri- Pacer). Trying not to look up as much anymore. I have a 73 Gran Torino Sport I'm gonna try to fix up, that'll keep my funds well used,why I stocked up on my ammo now..............
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By mctim64 - 15 Years Ago
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Bud, We always called a Tri-Pacer the "flying Milkstool" but I gey the rock part I do have a little time in a Pacer (PA-20)
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By Hoosier Hurricane - 15 Years Ago
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Any of you flyboys ever fly an Air & Space 18A gyroplane? I worked at the factory that built them, got a few hours dual time in it.
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By 55Birdman - 15 Years Ago
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I have seen a couple but never flown one. I used to own a retired C-123 Air Force twin engine recip cargo plane back in the 80s. But I did fly a replica of the Red Baron Fokker a few years back. What a ride. Dont know how he ever shot down anyone.
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By mctim64 - 15 Years Ago
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I have flown the F/A 18 simulators out at the Navy base, that's pretty cool.
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By Ted - 15 Years Ago
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YellowWing (3/27/2010)
I took my 56 Fairlane to the Mingus Union High School Hot Rod Club show in Cottonwood AZ today. .....Anyway come trophy time my 56 Orreo took home the Mayor's choice award while both my buds got skunked. MikeCongratulations. ’56 Victorias are always popular at car shows and partly due to so few actually showing up at these venues. I’ll have to believe that the crowds do get tired of looking at cars with bellybutton engines. Do you have any other pictures of the event in which to share?
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By aussiebill - 15 Years Ago
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Ted (3/30/2010)
YellowWing (3/27/2010)
I took my 56 Fairlane to the Mingus Union High School Hot Rod Club show in Cottonwood AZ today. .....Anyway come trophy time my 56 Orreo took home the Mayor's choice award while both my buds got skunked. MikeCongratulations. ’56 Victorias are always popular at car shows and partly due to so few actually showing up at these venues. I’ll have to believe that the crowds do get tired of looking at cars with bellybutton engines. Do you have any other pictures of the event in which to share? Ted, "BELLYBUTTON ENGINES" i,ve not heard that expression and laughed aloud! are you sure they are not connected to rear of that position?
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By YellowWing - 15 Years Ago
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Ted, love the bellybutton engine quote. I'll have to use that Show was put on by Mingus high school. Apparently fewer high schools today have auto shop classes  and fewer still a hot rod club. Anyway show was to benefit them. Here a a few more shots of the show, 87 cars there and my wife got all Chebbies. 57 Bel air belongs to a friend Bob Hammons, one of the nicest I've seen. I have done a bunch of work on it lately, Good practice for when I do mine in a couple months. 64 Chevelle belongs to my best friend Rick Newlee. Great car he keeps improving on. He is building a new 406 stroker motor for it now. He also helps Bob and I out with all the parts we need made or welded as he is a machinist by trade.Mike, Rimrock AZ  
 
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By Fordy Guy - 15 Years Ago
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Hey Mike, is that an old '42 CJ2A Jeep? My dad bought one in the sixties for 400 bucks. We had to rebuild the engine, trannie and transfer box but made a great hunting jeep. It would go anywhere your b--ls would let you go! I remember it didn't have a tailgate, just solid across back.
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By 55Birdman - 15 Years Ago
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172 sold finally after 3 years
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By mctim64 - 15 Years Ago
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55Birdman (4/2/2010)
172 sold finally after 3 years That's not just a 172, that's a Cutlass. How much did you sell it for?
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By 55Birdman - 15 Years Ago
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$71000 1985 172RG II Cutlass
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By mctim64 - 15 Years Ago
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This WAS my 172. '59 Skyhawk 0-300D. 
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By 55Birdman - 15 Years Ago
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Nice Bird.
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