updates tomorrow.

UPDATE:  We made it to Seattle, but the day was long and I’m exhausted.  So, I will post in the morning (yes, I really will!).

I had planned to do updates tonight, but my kids arrived today, so the video games are trumping jeeps for the evening.

We are heading to Seattle in the morning to spend the week up there.  However, I decided to plan a stop in Baker City and, finally, check out the “Paint Your Wagon” exhibit at the Oregon Trail Regional Museum.  As a LONG time fan of the movie (Dad was a fan and, for better or worse, passed on the legacy) I have always wanted to stop there, but wanted to bring the kids along.  And, yes, I can sing every song on the sound track, most by memory.  That’s what happens when you get trapped on road trips in your parents’ motor home as a kid for hours at a time with only a few eight track tapes in the motorhome — you hear the same ones over and over and over.

As you can probably guess, I didn’t quite get to updates this morning .. soooooo, I shall do them tonight.  However, I’m sure you’ll feel better knowing that most of my garage is now packed and cleaned!

I’ll post some tomorrow morning …

– Dave

Updates monday morning, probably right after dad calls from the hospital at 6:30am to tell mom and I that he is awake.  lol … yeah, he’s back to his ol’ self.

I’m happy to report dad has some kind of blood infection that a couple antibiotic doses seem to have solved.  It’s amazing how big a difference that made, turning him from a near zombie into his normal self.  So, another crisis averted.  Onto the next one.

Ask and ye shall receive (another crisis that is) . . . for as I rejoiced over dad’s sudden turnaround this afternoon, I checked ewillys on my phone in the hospital room only to discover my webhost has once again suspended my account (3rd time in a year) for a database spike.

So, if you wandered over to the site and found the subtle “ACCOUNT SUSPENDED NOTICE”, that’s why it was there for about 5 hours today.  And when they suspend it, they suspend it all.  Everything gets turned off, including my email and my access to fix any problems.

The support folks at my webhost have convinced themselves that I understand some of the esoteric details of mysql programming, despite my emails to the contrary.  Over the past few hours, emails have been exchanged in which I indicated that I could neither replicate the problem nor understand exactly what the problem was.  Their response is ‘you have 24 hours to fix the problem’.

I’ve concluded it is kind of like working with the Idaho DMV (see post below if you don’t understand that reference) . . .

UPDATES will start about 9:00ish pm PST.

BTW, if you wander by the site this weekend and it is down again, it’s because I’m moving the site to a new webhost.

Dad’s back in the hospital, so I’m driving back up to Seattle this evening.

UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $1200.

It’s rough. It’s also later CJ-3B, as it has the large speedometer.

“My dad has a 1951 CJ3B. Its a work in progress. It has a ’79 Buick V6 motor. Military PTO winch on the front, shaft driven. There are 7 16” tractor tired on ford pickup wheels that goes with it. Its a good project that some one can finish. We didnt have the time or money to finish it.

I had a long battle repairing my parents tractor/mower today.  I won, but not by much. It was one of those days where I made 3 different trips down to home depot for a mower belt, receiving the wrong one twice.  In addition, four different bolts broke, too rusted to turn, forcing me to drill them out, which in turn forced me to improvise a new mounting solution for a blade assembly.  If i wanted to do all that work, I’d by another jeep!!

I didn’t see too many jeeps, so I’ll skip tonight and post on Friday.

Have a good night.  Updates Saturday.

UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $1500.

Needs some work.

“1951 M38 Jeep. has set for too long. it does run. needs seats and brakes adjusted. body is solid but needs some paint. great for restoration , or use as is for play. $1500 for $2000 I will throw in two extra fullsize chevy diffs. and a 1978 cj5 parts jeep”

No Updates Tonight

About 10:30pm my time my server company began having problems.  This has not only affected my site, but other sites hosted by the company (including their own website).

Hopefully, they will get this resolved soon … I was able to complete a variety of updates though …

UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $200.

There’s $200 of value here. The rims look unusual.

“Willy’s jeep was an off road project that I never started. You haul.”

Updates tomorrow morning.

See ya Friday Night!

The internet is being flaky at the motel, so no updates tonight.  I’ll catch up tomorrow.

– Dave

Ooops.  I guess I was tired last night!  After a few updates to ewillys, i went out for some Pho Noodle Soup, came back to my motel room (I’m in Salt Lake for a couple days) and planned to do more updates.  Instead, I closed my eyes for just a minute and … boom … I was out.  So, I’ll sneak in some more this morning.

Here are some jeeps for sale.  It sounds like there are more for sale as well.  The 1954 CJ-3B was priced at $15k last month.

“Complete vehicles: 1948 Willy’s Sedan Delivery; 1946 CJ2-A with 350 Chevy; 1946 CJ2-A Stock; Fully restored 1954 CJ3-B with PTO winch and PTO outdrive.

Parts for sale:
Motor: 265ci V8 Chevrolet
Transmission to Transfer Case Adapter: Chevy 4 Speed to NP205; 700R to NP208 –
Transmissions: T90 Top Loader and Side Shift; T4; SR4
Diffs: Model 30 for YJ; Front & Rear for 45-71 CJ; Dana 44 6-Hole Front Transfer Cases: Dana 18; NP 231; Quadra Track; NP 241C; 205;
Body Parts: CJ5 Grill ; CJ7 Grill

Huge inventory of parts motors, transmissions, body parts, axle’s, rear end, front end, complete restored jeeps

(254) 836-9922

http://waco.craigslist.org/pts/2262204680.html

No updates tonight.  I’m wiped!  See you Sunday night.

I received an update from the Bantam Festival folks. Click on the banner to read about the updates. I still haven’t made the decision whether I”m going or not.  If I go, I’d like to spend another week or two in the NY area doing some family research, but that means I’ll be gone a month, so have to figure out the logistics to make that happen.

I made my way, through snow, sleet, and plenty of rain, to Seattle this evening.  So, if I get a chance to do updates, they’ll be pretty late.