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  1. MikeKardec

    Vintage Interiors

    The Round House at Jamestown, CA still has some ceiling shaft driven tools. Worth a visit if you're into railroads and steam power.
  2. MikeKardec

    Tramp Steamers

    Now delayed until November. Walmart gets what it wants ... which is okay with me as long as they'll stock it!
  3. MikeKardec

    Can a vintage car still be driven as a daily driver?

    Given that you were going from sea level to high altitude with a primitive carb and making a multi-hundred mile round trip on tubed tires, that sounds like the same sort of mechanical issues an owner of a Model A would have had back in the day.
  4. MikeKardec

    Can a vintage car still be driven as a daily driver?

    I've had a few come together beautifully BUT it takes a LONG time. The better a car it is the more you can enjoy it as you get the last few details together. And, as I said, you can change your mind part way through. A big advantage!
  5. MikeKardec

    Can a vintage car still be driven as a daily driver?

    If you are looking at a car that was painted in the last several years LOOK OUT. Ask to see pictures of the car during the time the body work was being done, many people and shops take them to document the work. I've seen veteran body men start to grind the paint off cars they thought were...
  7. MikeKardec

    Can a vintage car still be driven as a daily driver?

    Lizzie's right. The body is everything if you are going to want to make it a nice car. What is or isn't under the paint can cost you a FORTUNE and it's often a one way trip, start work and there can be no where to stop until you are done. Mechanical issues are pretty easy, and cheap in...
  8. MikeKardec

    Can a vintage car still be driven as a daily driver?

    Newer cars last longer ... until they don't. Generally, when an average post 1970s car starts it's downward spiral it's time to junk it. The complexity of the systems and the materials used is very hard to deal with at any cost that has a relationship to the value of the car or the trouble...
  9. MikeKardec

    Forward Time Travel

    There is some evidence that everything you experience goes through a half second delay as it's processed consciously. The unconscious reacts MUCH more quickly which is why in sports and theater, and most particularly improv comedy, you consciously train yourself to do the right things...
  10. MikeKardec

    Forward Time Travel

    Well, stories aren't about a lack of change. It is interesting, however, that it is absolutely archetypal to end a story with the potential of another generation being born, a healthier form of immortality. I felt so strange about the Aussie guy. We've all got the capacity to check out where...
  11. MikeKardec

    What Are You Reading

    Before Vintage picked it up, 50 Shades of Gray made it's mark as an e-book. The theory is that, especially at the time, women would never be seen in public reading the book and that the anonymity of the e-reader made the first stage of it's acceptance and success possible.
  13. MikeKardec

    What Are You Reading

    There is a pretty lively community of Audio Drama Podcasters. A lot of them are operating in a training vacuum writing-wise but there are probably are some geniuses hiding in the clutter. I haven't found them but odds are that they are there. Audio Publishing, the more formal effort by...
  14. MikeKardec

    Wilderness Clubs

    My grandfather was a real estate developer in Southern California from the 1920s to the 1940s. His basic design for a resort was common for the period. He would build a "club house" that included a dining room, meeting rooms, a bar, a swimming pool, tennis, bad mitten and other courts. Then...
  15. MikeKardec

    What Are You Reading

    Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship by George Dyson. Based on many of his father's (Freeman Dyson) memories, George recounts the story of a project intended to send a 4,000 ton spacecraft powered by atomic bombs on a grand tour of the solar system by 1965. A marvelous piece...
  16. MikeKardec

    What Shows/Movie Franchises have you "Rage Quit"?

    Okay. A couple of comments about The Walking Dead and it's ilk: I used to think that it was the political parable of our time. Everyone these days seems to think that their political opposition, whoever they are, is a bunch of soft headed zombies stumbling around doing stuff that is so...
  17. MikeKardec

    Power Wagon Porn ...

    Trucks are difficult because they tend to be bought for business purposes and thus "used up," there's also fewer reproduction parts around than there is for a popular car like a Camero or Mustang. The other problem is that while true vintage cars ('30s, '40s, '50s) were pretty comfortable for...
  19. MikeKardec

    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

    Here's an Auto Court, this one just outside Klamath Falls, OR, complete with vintage RV. This spot dates back to the 1920s. My Grandparents stayed there while working on the construction of the Weyerhaeuser sawmill.
  20. MikeKardec

    Tramp Steamers

    Just for the record the Max Hardberger book Seized is about stealing tramp freighters ... something he sort of specialized in for a few years! Basically, hijacking ships impounded in foreign ports for their owners. Having become a sort of connoisseur of these sort of books while doing my own...
  21. MikeKardec

    Why were the Germans so bad at espionage?

    Something I sort of alluded to above: The Germans were up to their ears in internal security issues of their own making. There is no question that this reduced the manpower and brain power they could devote to foreign intelligence. There's also a point that others have touched on the edges of...
  22. MikeKardec

    Vintage SCUBA Diving anyone?

    None of those images posted but I, for one, would love to see them and to know the name of your company. I'm always interested in people making retro style products!
  23. MikeKardec

    Tramp Steamers

    For the real thing, fiction about Tramp Steamers (or motor ships, MS as opposed to SS) read Max Hardberger's Seized or Freighter Captain. Both illuminate the real world of 3d rate shipping in great and amusing detail. The first, long unfinished, novel of Louis L'Amour will be published in...

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