Jacobs Well SE Qld weekend

[JBJ]

Hi All,

I guess seeing 2 forum members met at the same place & time, that contitutes an event??.

Anyway it was fun, & got me out of my rut & being housebound, as it was first time I got the van out in the four months odd since I was operated on.

Had a good weekend, enjoyed a quiet couple of days doing nothing, & a pretty good car show to boot. Lots of interested people looked at our vans, & as always we heard lots of storeys of good memories of vanning in days gone by.
Copped thunderstorms Friday night, Saturday morning ( 50mm in 30 minutes) , & Saturday arvo. Normal SE Qld weather this time of year.

These are the first pix I think I have taken with Deejay behind my rod. I got a set of 1950 Chrysler full wheel caps out of USA
( Ebay buy) & I like them. I think they suit the van.






Finally got to use my mini Barbeque, & it cooks great.



These birds are everywhere


A couple of interior shots of Deejay





So on Sunday we went to the car show. Pretty good roll up of US & Aussie cars. Beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky all day. I won an air compressor in the raffle, second biggest prize.

Some pix for the car lovers

Customised Ford delivery


Mercury tudor

54 Ford Sunliner

56? cusso 4 door pillarless Victorial ( this must be pretty rare)

Line up of our 3 vans & towcars

Nice traditional scallops on a classic Merc

Now this is an engine

My sort of hotrod

one for Col

One for Dale

Something rare, a Ford motor in a Ford. (312 Thunderbird, but shame about the average aircleaner)

All in all a pretty good time for a rod show weekend , for Boots & I at least. I survived the weekend without any worries, so its good to be back ready to go again.

Its all fun

JBJ

[firefighter]

G'day Dennis

Good to see you and Boots out and about after 4 months on the
sick list......the van look good on behind your rod

Thank for sharing your photos with us
f/f ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Deleted]

Great to see you out and about again JBJ, following your ticker probs

Deejay looks stunning, ..........and is indeed another "Beautiful Big Bondy" .......luv the tastefully done interior with the period nic nacs ! ......I spose Boots had a hand in that

i agree with you, ..........the imported Chrysler full wheels caps do look the part, and compliment the van supurbly ..........good to see you got 5 of them, one for the spare as well.

Take care mate, and enjoy that beautiful van as much as poss ...........

Mark

[Jellybean]

Welcome back to rodding and vanning Dennis. Must be good to be out and about again.
Looks like a really good show. We would have gone but we were fitting windows and tail lights to Jellybean.
Hopefully will see you on the Powertour in a couple of weeks.
Cheers John

[JBJ]

Hi All,

Thanks John, you would have loved the show. Lots of top quality big buck restorations, like only can happen on the Gold Coast (where a lot of very wealthy people live)

Mark, all we,ve done to the inside of Deejay since Neilncheryl sold it to us, is clean the interior paint with sugarsoap, put a couple of new mattresses in, & put a bit of Boots' junk collection around.

When I bought the hubcaps, they were the only set of 5 I could find, & they only cost about $140 Aust. to buy & get delivered. 3 of them are marked, one a fair bit, but not noticeable from a couple of metres, which is as close as most get anyway.

Other than mount the spare, the outside is still pretty much as Neil repainted it.

Its taken a while to adjust to buying a complete van, rather than rebuilding as required, but we are very happy with it .

Our 4 hour trip used about $140 fuel in my rod, so its no worse to tow than Lucille was.

Its good to be out & about again.

JBJ

[adam12]

Hi JBJ and BOOTS nice to meet you guys and put a face to the names, love the van, wish you two many happy days with the Dee Jay, Thanks again for the chat, hope i didn't boar you with all those questions about vanning. It was a fantastic day for that sort of event, nice to here you won the compressor, was that with my tickets or yours i wonder, thanks again for all the advice, i look forward to the net time we meet. Take care

Adam12

[JBJ]

Hi Adam,


Unfortunately for you, you handed your tickets to the unlucky one of us, Boots.

She had yours, & I had mine. I won with a green ticket A33.

If I had won it with your ticket I would have given the prize to you. So sorry we couldnt present you with something next time we catch up.

It was great meeting you, & see you at Canungra hopefully.
JBJ