Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Men With Tools

He owned a beat-up Toyota minivan,  The body was shot, but mechanically it was otherwise okay.  Then someone told him about an abandoned Cessna aircraft at a junkyard.  No engines,  far too many hours to be rebuilt and made airworthy.

An empty garage, a lot of tools, and some very talented friends and.....a street-worthy Cessna.

He drives it around town when the weather is good;  to the gas station, the drive-thru, the store, and so forth.


11 comments:

chickelit said...

What's the chassis?

chickelit said...

Never mind. First sentence. :)

AllenS said...

A man can't have too many tools.

ricpic said...

Hey, the mystery of where Studebaker got its chassis shape is solved!

ricpic said...

He spelled LeMans wrong.

Methadras said...

I defy a woman to do this. They can't. They just don't have the vision for this kind of awesome. Sorry ladies, please don't hate me for too long. Thank you.

Michael Haz said...

@ricpic: the spellingnis correct. The 24 Hours of LeMons is an amateur racing event in which no car may cost more than $500,

https://www.24hoursoflemons.com

rhhardin said...

They used to build restaurants in them.

rhhardin said...

It looks like a Sky King "Songbird" 310-b except it's missing the tailfin fairing and has a steeper sweep on its replacement.

XRay said...

Bothers me that I can't identify it. You may be on to something hardin... but that nose is too rounded, the windscreen too large. I'm going to step out on a meager limb and say a Piper product. Aztec, PA-23?

AllenS said...

I would have a hard time parallel parking that vehicle.

WV: dosta