Clown Car Sticker Update

mppickett posted:

Safety Jim Buffalo NY. posted:

Have we involved any Russian's?

Only agent 356...

Maybe agent 99

Just in passing: Joe Jackson's "Look Sharp" has been stuck in my head for three weeks now and my mind involuntarily changes the lyric to "...and ya gotta have NOOOOOO COLLUUUSION"

Sorry.

@Sacto Mitch I sent a PM for 2 stickers a while back.

 

John, got it. Your stickers went out with this last batch.

 

Mitch, this afternoon a postman paddled his canoe up to our lanai and dropped off some stickers of untold value and prestige. I am eternally grateful!

 

 

Glad you got the stickers OK, Mike.

By my calculations, it takes only one more day to cross the Pacific by canoe than it does to reach Peoria overland.

 

Sacto Mitch posted:

 

 

Glad you got the stickers OK, Mike.

By my calculations, it take only one more day to cross the Pacific by canoe than it does to reach Peoria overland.

 

Hard to beat the old USPS

Sacto Mitch posted:

 Glad you got the stickers OK, Mike.

By my calculations, it takes only one more day to cross the Pacific by canoe than it does to reach Peoria overland.

Oxcarts and Conestoga wagons are pretty slow, but at least they're empty for the return trip (after dropping their cargo of eastern immigrants eager to make their mark in the Golden State). 

Ah yes, the great clown rush of aught 19. I'll never forget you neither, Nancy

Sacto Mitch posted:

 

John, got it. Your stickers went out with this last batch.

 

I got them late last week, rural-ish Maine, I love them and Penny comes home today. That big pile of plowed snow's finally gone and there's room to park my Cruze outdoors and give Penny a nice cozy spot in the garage.

Thanks

edsnova posted:

Just in passing: Joe Jackson's "Look Sharp" has been stuck in my head for three weeks now and my mind involuntarily changes the lyric to "...and ya gotta have NOOOOOO COLLUUUSION"

Sorry.

Ed, I'll put Joe Jackson on and take you for a Spyder ride, no problem!

Clown car badges. In keeping with the serious theme of this thread, I decided that MY car (the sum of which resides in three separate location currently), will require a badge or two to convince people that it is worthy of membership in the PCCA. Behold the prototype:

I decided that the prototype should be high-end since it's easier to trim budget than to pad it. I sourced a few 3" unfinished brass lamp bottoms from mylampsource.com at $3.23 each.

They are thin stamped brass with a hole for a wire in the middle should I decide that further illumination is needed. 

Building on the work of the giants who have gone before me, I had a few 3" sticky-back transparent stickers made of the PCCACarlos05 image by stickylife.com. 

Looks good enough for me. If any of you would like electronic copy of the engineering drawings, yeah well...

I fear that I may encounter hurdles in firmly attaching this badgling to the engine grill. The prototype is currently attaching with a wad of Juicy Fruit gum. If there are better ideas (Bubble Yum, Double Mint, etc), please let me know.

Enjoy!

Mike

@Michael Pickett Check out how I mounted two elevator bolts to my clam shell in this thread. You could do something similar.

https://www.speedsterowners.co...my-blaze-cut-install

Carlos G posted:

@Michael Pickett Check out how I mounted two elevator bolts to my clam shell in this thread. You could do something similar.

https://www.speedsterowners.co...my-blaze-cut-install

Brilliant, Carlos. It's possible that brazing would work on these. Nice job on the artwork, by the way. Thanks

Mike

I'm sure you could braze a stud or two to that brass shield. I don't know if the process will warp the shield though.

One benefit to using the fiberglass is it takes less skill and you could fill in that center hole.

True. And I do have plenty of good resin and glass left over from the body repairs.

If the plate is truly brass, and not just brass colored, and the stud is brass-- you can soft-solder the stud to the plate. Brass to brass will work with nothing more than a propane torch. You'd have to try to warp it with that.

The thing I'm loving is the possibility of having another place on the car to swap out messages of the day.

I understand that Gorilla Snot works very well too !...........Bruce

 

@Michael Pickett , great job of advancing the PCCA brand!

There's been extensive debate here about which chewing gum is best for attaching a grill badge. Some folks won't use anything but green gum. Some say any gum that has spearmint will work okay. Others just use whatever is cheapest.

There are lots of theories, but each of us knows that our own gum works best.

 

Thanks, Mitch. I just used Juicy Fruit for the prototype but on Rennlist I've found a source in Ludwigsburg (just north of Stuttgart) of bespoke chewing gum pre-masticulated by pure bred German Shepherds. They claim a .0237 Mpa bonding strength when applied with .1mm thickness for the green gum and slightly less for the other chromatic variants. I saw no evidence of the so called "spearmint effect." 

On the PCCA website, many suggest that I should over think it and then flip a coin. It should be obvious which approach I'll be taking!

Mike

mppickett posted:

It should be obvious which approach I'll be taking!

Dubble Bubble?

Stan Galat posted:

mppickett posted:

It should be obvious which approach I'll be taking!

Dubble Bubble?

You must be psychic!

Well, it was obvious, Mike-- it IS "America's Original".

...speaking of old favorite gums and such. I was in Joann's fabric store the other day and found rolls of Life Savers Butter Rum. I took one up to the counter where the clerk rang them up. $3.49 a roll. Left them on the counter.

So was Black Jack gum and Black Crow Gum drops until Political Correctness became fashionable.
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And they tell you inflation is not real 

Funny when I tell them Global warning is not really real they don’t believe me

Butter Rum . 99 a roll at Cracker Barrell and eBay has them in bulk cheap

Terry Nuckels posted:

...speaking of old favorite gums and such. I was in Joann's fabric store the other day and found rolls of Life Savers Butter Rum. I took one up to the counter where the clerk rang them up. $3.49 a roll. Left them on the counter.

Two things:

First, who buys candy at a fabric store? And second, what were you doing in a fabric store?

Robert M posted:

Terry Nuckels posted:

...speaking of old favorite gums and such. I was in Joann's fabric store the other day and found rolls of Life Savers Butter Rum. I took one up to the counter where the clerk rang them up. $3.49 a roll. Left them on the counter.

Two things:

First, who buys candy at a fabric store? And second, what were you doing in a fabric store?

I was looking for fabric for clown pants...

Alan Merklin posted:

Butter Rum . 99 a roll at Cracker Barrell and eBay has them in bulk cheap

First, Alan, who could even think of having candy after eating at Cracker Barrel.

Second, you can't buy candy on ebay when you want it NOW.

BTW, Cracker Barrel mac n cheese is a great adhesive for badge sticking...

 

Remarkable coincidence, Terry.

In the garage the other day, applying some Gorilla Snot to a vinyl trim piece, I thought it smelled a lot like Cracker Barrel Mac N Cheese.

Hey, you don't think...

 

Thanks for bringing up Cracker Barrel. It seems they are rather scarce in CA. I hear there is a very special on we could hit in Big Sur. 

Most of what Cracker Barrel serves will probably cause cancer in CA.

Gordon Nichols posted:

Right up there with “Waffle House” and the Golden Corral.  

And all three places pack people in all the time.  Wonder what that tells us?

That they're using zinc additives in their condiments to lure us old geezers in?

majorkahuna posted:

Thanks for bringing up Cracker Barrel. It seems they are rather scarce in CA. I hear there is a very special on we could hit in Big Sur. 

Hey Noel, one is going in on Sierra College in Rocklin. Across the street from Walmart and In n Out. They're putting in a Habit as well.

That reminds me I need to update my final instructions in my trust. 

Bob Evans is one rung down from Cracker Barrel. It’s the same overpriced comfort food (really? $12.50 for pancakes and eggs?), minus the prepackaged, chain restaurant faux country-kitch charm.

I’m a sucker for an honest to goodness small-town diner with Folgers coffee and plates that don’t match. Bonus points for decent biscuits and gravy.

If fake eggs are an option, I’m looking elsewhere.

" B o o b  " Evans here in WV seems to think a pancake that is raw in the center is A - OK. Then there is the little breakfast place that charges $5.00 for a single pancake but ..the  center is,  cooked.