The Week In Review - 10/26/14

Hello everybody!

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We went to a British Vehicle Show in Safety Harbor, and it was a great experience. It got us wanting to get back to work on the Volvo P1800 we have so we could join a Volvo owner's club and display our hard work too.
But, it's been a busy week, so I'll complete this post in a day or two from now with lots of pictures and such, because for the second time today, a police helicopter is now buzzing our neighborhood, looking for something. This afternoon, the squad cars were searching the neighborhood looking for a teenager that attacked a little kid and stole her bicycle. Turns out, it happened down the road from our house and we saw the officer with the bike in his trunk as he returned it to the little girl.
Well, as I'm typing this at 9:30PM, the 'chopper' is circling the neighborhood again, but for about 30 minutes now, and we have seen patrol cars go by several times with their spotlights on. Not sure what it is this time, but I am really getting a Miami 'vibe' over this. Luann & I remember this going on practically every night when we were living down there. Seems to me that the Tampa Bay area is slowly turning itself into a something of a northern version of what we moved away from 25 years ago...

So, this is the inside of our dishwasher, and I'm showing this to you because under that disc-shaped section is something called a macerator which is responsible for chopping up food particles so everything can go down the drain.

This is why I had to crawl up in there and take the guts apart in the dishwasher. Somehow, a screw made it into the macerator and both of them took a beating, but thankfully, the macerator came out better than this.

On the way to work, traffic came to a standstill on both sides of the interstate due to an accident on the opposite side of the road. This is a shot of the medical helicopter that had landed on the roadway to transport the injured. Definitely not a good thing to see.

Here is the actual accident, where a red pickup was wedged underneath the Publix trailer across the roadway. Hope the driver comes out of this alright.

I happened upon this popup camper headed down the interstate on the way home from work. It's unusual to me because now that we own one, we are more aware of these campers and look for them. This one is called an Aliner. It's a bit different from the 'tent-on-wheels' like we have because you when you open it up, it looks like a small A-Frame house on wheels. Pretty neat engineering.

I received this hand-made birthday card from my In-Laws, and it is neat to get something that is more than something that was bought at the store and signed. And, there was a gift card inside to the Home Depot, so they know me well enough that I'm always shopping at home improvement stores.

Here we are, at the British Vehicle show in Safety Harbor. We liked how this motorcycle sidecar kind of looked like a bomb.

This motorcycle is from the beginning days when these were only a little more than a motorized bicycle. The belt that drives the rear wheel is made up of rubber links, bolted together.

So, the first image about is of a little red Morris Mini, the ACTUAL Mini car from England. This vehicle is a Morris Mini Pickup from the 60s. Yeah, the little 10-inch tires are what you got with this 1000cc-engined car/truck.

Across from this Austin Healey Sprite-Bugeye is Gwen and her daughter, Crystal. They came out with us to see this awesome display.

This green bugeye caught Katrina's attention, so she took a couple of pictures like this one. The owners talked to us and she showed them pictures of our work in repairing her car, a Saturn SC1, and she just happened to have pictures stored on her cell phone to show them. They seemed to be truly interested and asked her quite a few questions. They were surprised by how much she knows about cars.

This Lotus Elan can be seen in the movie, "Honey, I Blew Up The Kid!"

This old Rolls Royce was impressive, we really liked it.

And here is a view of the engine bay. Some seriously old technology in there, but it worked!

Katrina worked hard to get this lineup photo of Triumph TR4's with the hoods raised.
Well, that's it for this week, we should have quite a few pics for next weekend, since it's Halloween and such. C-U then!