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Excellent News!

Did you buy anything?

Also, thank you for quickly posting the videos of Cabin Fever.  I am watching them this morning.

I didnt buy much at all, a handful of carbide drills, a Jensen #5 off of Jed, & a Grizzly GO803Z 9" tabletop bandsaw for next to nothing.
Your welcome re:videos, your welcome. I started kinda late as it was nearing 9am & the doors were getting ready to open for the masses.

Very nice, Tony. Looking forward to the steam test.

It surely is a unexpected transformation and to think I was going to take $300 for it so I could stop the tow yard fees!

Yes, it will be put up for sale soon-ish and the proceeds will be split between Nate (my brother), Chad (friend/body guy) and me (well my daughter).  I am hoping the part my daughter gets will help cover most of a new top on her "new" blue 2007 Solara SLE.  The top alone comes in around 5k, installed.  Then she needs around another 5k for a suspension refresh.  Which we did both of these jobs in the Black Solara (top/suspension). 

She just got the timing belt/water pump, water hoses done on the blue Solara - which is rather important with this Toyota v6 engine, as it is a interference engine - which means if you let the timing belt break, you trash the engine.  So that is no bueno!

Quote from: txlabman on January 19, 2025, 06:55:32 pm

His B-44 is actually running in my video from Cabin Fever when I had my Empire Display in 2019.

I think you mean his B-39, that is next to your B-33.  Yep, I have seen that and his two video's on his YouTube Channel.  At least you have seen it up close and had your hands on it!  For the record, I believe it was used in a different setup for a display, much like the B-40.  Here is a ad that I am 95% sure is a B-39 (and not a B-33).

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You are correct.  Apologies.

Seems like the very definition of "cabin fever"--people cooped up all winter and dying to get out and buy stuff!