1927 Chevrolet Truck and Miss Maple

This is all this little girl did for the next day or so. Thankfully mommy had off all the next week to be with her.   I think she was just so worn out from all the fun she had with the kids and Remy VanWie. Well she only had a few days to rest, as we hooked up and went to Batlleground Campground in Lake George on Wednesday night of that week to go and see the King - Elvis.

So we stated off the 2019 Camping Season with Miss Maple on the 24th of May - Memorial Day Weekend - by heading to Scaroon Manor Campground with 4 other families from Church.    This is the 2nd year as a group we went camping and on Sunday we opened up the invite to anyone after church for a picnic. It was a great turnout - I counted 34 people in all that were there - next year we are shooting for 50.  The good news is no Emergency Room visits for Miss Maple - Good Girl.   I think this is her favorite part of camping - other than digging holes everywhere.

I give credit for the completion of the sanding, staining and the application of the urethane mostly to my Wife. Thanks for giving me the time to complete this project.  In my next post, I give thanks to my helper in the final day of sanding this truck bed, if it wasn't for my little helper, I would probably still be working on it today.   Stand by for that video..... 

Hard work go by faster with some good help. Thanks to my Helper.  Job well done. Look who I picked up on the side of the road while they were out with a walk with Grandma.

So it is the end of March. I have all the boards stained and one coat of urethane applied.   Just need to put them all together.  I wonder if anyone is coming over this way that is retired and needs a nonpaying part time job? Well see. The boards came out better than I had hoped for - and I had to repaint the metal brackets, I  got a little to ahead of myself when I took them down and wrapped them up, but they look pretty good. The steering wheel has about 4 coats of urethane on that. It was a little tricky for Jamie to steer the car when Brett and I pushed it out of the garage this weekend so I could get the boat out and make more room to work on putting the truck back together. April's goal is to put it all back together, tuned up, inspected and out on the road for some  small around the town trips.

It was close to 65 degrees on Friday and then Saturday morning it was snowing again.  It didn't stop me, I went ahead and started staining some of the wood panels.  By the end of March I should have all them stained.   Maybe if it is nice this weekend out, I can move the boat out of the garage. Then that will give me some working room in there to put the winter projects back on the truck.  

Here are the rest of the trophies and awards that I received with the truck.   My next post will be about the upcoming car shows that I will attend and hopefully win an award of my own.    2000 2001 No Year Noted