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Welcome Forum => Welcome Board and Introductions => Topic started by: Ray Smi7th on November 06, 2015, 06:15:08 PM

Title: New member from Michigan
Post by: Ray Smi7th on November 06, 2015, 06:15:08 PM: Hello All:
Found the site while researching an obscure tool and decided to join. Name is Ray and I am a semi-retired sign artist/pinstriper originally from Boston are now residing in SE Michigan. Got started into vintage tools when I bought a box of old tools just to get the box and wound up cleaning all the tools up and using them in my shop.It was all down hill from there.
Still do a lot of work on my vintage station wagons and do custom paint work for others.Looking forward to conversing with others about tools and whatever. Thanks for having me aboard.
Title: Re: New member from Michigan
Post by: gibsontool on November 06, 2015, 06:25:20 PM: What do you mean "downhill" I always thought I was it uphill. Welcome from British Columbia Canada.
Title: Re: New member from Michigan
Post by: Papaw on November 06, 2015, 07:47:40 PM: Welcome to Tool Talk!
Title: Re: New member from Michigan
Post by: turnnut on November 06, 2015, 08:52:50 PM: welcome Ray,

vintage station wagons ? sounds interesting, when my kids were small, (now in their 50's) we always had station wagons
up until 1968 when I bought our 1st brand new auto. traded a 1962 Dodge Dart wagon towards a 1968 Dodge Charger.

I bet you are glad to be out of Massachusetts, I live in Monson, around Rt. 20 & Rt. 32

enjoy your time on tool talk.
Title: Re: New member from Michigan
Post by: Nolatoolguy on November 06, 2015, 10:09:59 PM: Welcome aboard from Utah
Title: Re: New member from Michigan
Post by: Ray Smi7th on November 07, 2015, 09:38:50 AM: Thanks for the welcome!
I always thought that the term,"downhill" was a good thing ;meaning that things were relatively easy. lol
Best thing I ever did was move out of "Taxachusetts". Worked in Salem and downtown Boston for most of my career and the traffic was uniimaginably horrible. Can't believe how bad it is now. My youngest lives in Lowell and works in Tewksbury;drives 9 miles to work and it takes him 45 minutes(on a GOOD day)to drive it.
My 1955 Pontiac wagon has logged just over 180,000 miles since I've owned it. I also have a 1957 Pontiac wagon but that is an old race car and hasn't been out of the shop in awhile. When I figure out how to post pics here I will put a couple up.
Title: Re: New member from Michigan
Post by: turnnut on November 07, 2015, 01:32:21 PM: your 55 wagon looks like a rolling billboard, nice lines to it.

I agree with you on this state, but at my age, moving is out of the picture.

before I retired, I traveled to East Hartford for 28 1/2 years, would not want to do that Rt.84 now. 80 miles round trip,
but the travel was called, "my thinking time." winter time was leave in the dark, return in the dark.

keep up the nice work.
Title: Re: New member from Michigan
Post by: Papaw on November 07, 2015, 02:13:14 PM: My Mama's old Pontiac wagon had a big old straight 8 in it.
Title: Re: New member from Michigan
Post by: PFSchaffner on November 11, 2015, 04:33:53 PM: Hello from a fellow SE Michigander (Ann Arbor, more or less.)
Title: Re: New member from Michigan
Post by: Northwoods on November 11, 2015, 04:57:57 PM: Welcome from NE Kansas.
Good folks here. You will like them.
Title: Re: New member from Michigan
Post by: mikeswrenches on December 04, 2015, 05:23:56 PM: Hi Ray, welcome from Florida. I spent about 10 years in Flint...before getting smart and moving to Florida.

Mike
Title: Re: New member from Michigan
Post by: Plyerman on December 13, 2015, 01:16:34 PM: I was thinking of moving to Florida, but I hear it will be under water soon. :grin: Meanwhile, it's 60 degrees here in northern Michigan today, middle of December.

Haha, welcome to Tool Talk Ray!