Well, I don’t want to admit my age (fifty-three), but for three decades I have been aching to build my own T-Bucket roadster. What is a T-Bucket, you ask?
Well, it is a replica of Henry Ford’s venerable Model T Ford, minus a lot of body parts and with a lot more horsepower.
Back in April of 2007, I drove to Wallingford, CT to visit Total Performance a shop that produces an after-market T-Bucket kit. The little beauty above was on hand for me to drool over. After a couple of hours of chatting, a down-payment on a complete kit leapt out of my pocket and into the coffers at Total.
I wish it were otherwise, but being a man of modest means, I am still paying off the kit. I hope to have my hands on everything within the next few months and I am starting to get anxious to get started on the build.
I’ll post about the progress, from time to time. If you’re remotely interested in street rods, come visit our T-Bucket Forums and see what some other bucket-heads are planning.
The following is the text of a letter I wrote to the editor of our local newspaper. They held it for 11 days before publishing and then tried to dilute it by inserting into a page with several other pro Ron Paul letters. Typical of the liberal media we must suffer in this country.
How surprising we are not hearing more from the news media about Ron Paul’s 2008 Presidential campaign. It is almost as if the media and even the Republican Party is somehow afraid of Paul’s Congressional voting record and campaign message to the American people. Paul is a leader in straw polls, Internet polls and even in text message polls, yet we still hear more about the other candidates rather than Paul’s campaign for Liberty.
Americans are complain about rising taxes, increased government intervention, illegal immigration and the situation currently taking place in Iraq. And Ron Paul is a Presidential candidate promising to cut taxes, to stop un-Constitutional government spending, to eliminate American financial dependency on foreign nations, to protect the Constitutional rights of American citizens by ending the “Patriot” Act, to secure our borders and to bring American troops home from the no-win police action in the Middle East.
This tenth-term Congressman has never voted to raise taxes, has never voted for an unbalanced budget, has never voted to raise Congressional pay, has never taken a government-paid junket and has never participated in the lucrative Congressional pension program.
And somehow, the American public seems to be unaware of this Presidential candidate, a man repeatedly named “The Taxpayers’ Best Friend” in Congress.
I hope Ron Paul’s message of peace, prosperity and liberty will be heard by all people and that 2008 will be the year our great country is saved by the American voters.
Well, there are some days when I cannot imagine how life could have gone on without a computer. Or two. Or three. There was even a time when there were as many as five!
Since the very early 1980’s, I’ve owned everything from a VIC-20 with a 300 baud modem and a cassette tape drive to my current Sony VAIO and Dell XPS-410. Everything from Commodore’s operating systems to Windows 3.1, 95, 98, ME (which is one I want to forget) and XP. In the last couple of months, I’ve eliminated Windows from my systems and they are both happily running Ubuntu 7.10 a.k.a. Gutsy Gibbon, a very user-friendly Linux distro.
In 1984, I began experimenting with forum administration and opened my first forum site on a phpBB2 installation. It only took about 6 months to see it was time to move on and I imported that site into vBulletin 3.0.5. Through the years, I’ve added domains, sites and forums and currently own and operate three live vBulletin forums, with another vBulletin forum and a phpBB3 forum running on a test site.
So I have my days with computers. Some are really great and then there are the ones that make me want to toss all the computers out onto the street.
So, stick around and you’ll be able to read about the ups and downs I experience.
