More fun in the garage

This is the heartbeat of the garage, the epi-canter if you will, its the workbench. Notice that it has way too much work on it !  Included here are a freshly rebuilt starter, a freshly rebuilt Carter AFB carb and  power brake booster with all the brackets and pins required to make the FT a [...]

The garage sofa part deux

 Here is the pic of the previously mentioned garage sofa. As you can see it is quite luxurious, note the strategically placed TV remote. Behind it is the 57 Chevy project, only 25,000 reasons why this isnt on the road yet.
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The garage sofa

Please note that in the upper corner of my previous posts pic is a glimpse of the highly luxurious reliable garage “sofa”. This fine piece of americana started life as the front seat of a 71 Thunderbird. It somehow found its way into the reliable 57 chevy. After the reliable 57 became mine I removed [...]

Greetings from the reliable garage

The reliable garage has been a flurry of activity recently. The semi reliable 14 y/o and I managed to get the old tired 283 freed from the family truckster (my 64 Belair wagon) and ready to remove, needing only the lift to be returned to my house (borrowed some time ago by an amaretto guzzling [...]

Whatever happened to being “nice’

Are you really that important that you think you have a right to move to the front of the line of traffic ? No you arent any busier than me, just rude. Didnt your Mom teach you any better or did you skip kindergarten (the place where we all should have learned manners)
Come on people, the poor [...]

White trash chimnea

      This little gem owes its origin to many things, among them the fact that I dont like to waste large pieces of steel. A recent plumbing problem required us to remove our well tank and replace it. This tank has a pressurized air bladder and provides water with semi consistant pressure and prevents the [...]

I dont have a problem…. really

After a review of my first 7 posts I have noticed that I talk about beer a lot.  Please dont start scheduling the intervention.
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Sometimes ya just gotta have a few Buds

After another long 30 hour work day I arrived at Reliable HQ with my gear. being gone from home for a day and a half has it challenges and the back of the Reliable HD is packed with clothes and projects. After unpacking, with the help of a semi-reliable teenager, I find an E-bay treasure [...]

Some things are bigger than you

I had the honor of speaking to folks from MDA again tonight. The groundwork has been laid for this years fundraising in our IAFF local 1335. For the last several years the Reliable family has been involved in the fill the boot campaign, This year is full of energy and faith that the cures are right [...]

The power of a laugh

Yesterday the whole reliable family (Mrs Reliable and the Reliable sons 16 and 14 y/o) Went North to visit my Mother. Grandma reliable has been fighting the good fight with a hideous disease for a few years now and every visit is a gift. After dinner at the Big Boy (grammys favorite eatery) we wnet [...]