Garage Art

I just bought a 64 for my mom on last mothers day, Im looking for a photo of it right now,
but I came here to show off this bat wing that im trading some work for this week...its been hand painted on the fromt side . i live in the mountains too looks gonn look so cool on my wall

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here we go.... about ten years ago I restored a 71 dodge dart from the ground up, and gave it to my mon for being the best mom ever... the a year ago I did this one, her first car was a 65 thunderbird when she was 17, she had it les than a month and someone t boned it and totaled the car, so I did this one


 
My latest acquisition of Garage Art for the winter workshop; can't quite decide where to put it, but for now it sits atop the workshop stereo.

A desktop 1950's era travel agency promo piece (repop).
Solid aluminum.
A deco-ized Lockheed Starliner L-1649 Air France.
I love it, to say the least.

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Sadly, all things must come to an end.
I've got too many bikes, so it's time to sell "Jimi", my '80 XS650 Special. :(

We've have some great times together:

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So today I put myself to the task of removing Jimi's image to save it for my collection of Garage Art.
In the hot 90 degree sun, the decal came off in one piece !

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Since I've got just about every inch of the workroom's walls covered, I had to make some re-arrangements.
I found a place for Jimi:

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And I decided that when 2020 comes to a close, Bob's bike will be framed and occupy a permanent place.

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SX-1050 or 1080 receiver?
It just occurred to me that my affection for both the Standard XS650's of the mid-70's as well as the 80's Specials is similar to my attraction for both the 70's and 80's stereo receivers. . . . . . both of which some people can't comprehend :)

What stereo equipment do you have?
 
It just occurred to me that my affection for both the Standard XS650's of the mid-70's as well as the 80's Specials is similar to my attraction for both the 70's and 80's stereo receivers. . . . . . both of which some people can't comprehend :)

What stereo equipment do you have?

Well for me I do have a Sansui 5000X that has not been plugged in in a few years, only problem I can recall it had was the tuner section was slipping bad and made it hard to change stations. When I want to play music in my office I have wife's dad's old Realistic STA-2000D receiver. it is connected to a run of the mill Realistic/BSR record changer, a Realistic SCT-21 cassette deck, an Optimus(radio shack again) CD-6120 Cd changer and my Akai 4000D reel to reel deck. They play through a pair of Bose 2.2 speakers.

Upstairs there is some other mid-level Radio Shack receiver that is hooked to a pair of Bose 6.2 speakers, can not remember the last time they made any music.

Almost forgot down in office is a Crosley AM/FM/Short Wave radio and record player that was my grandmothers. It is not at present working and from what I have read the common problem for those old sets were the capacitors going bad from old age.
 
My favorite Garage Art objects are my gizmos, gadgets and gauges,
like this one I got last year.

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Anything old with a dial, a switch or a knob makes me happy.

But its been a long while since that Allen voltmeter find, so yesterday I decided to head to Grande Gorge, NY, where Mike's Army Navy Surplus
(and military junkyard) resides.

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It has been a year since I stopped in, and my goal was laser-focused: One last try at convincing him to sell me an item I saw about 10 years ago.

Mike has tons of surplus clothes, vehicles, military collectables (no repops) and a personal collection of militaria (his "museum").

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Unfortunately, the one item in his store that I wanted is in his museum, not for sale.
Every year I stop in and try to nudge him to sell it, and its always been a flat "No".

But this year he has a For Sale sign out in front. He's trying to sell the building

I didn't get an immediate No ( ! ).
After a bit of silence, he said "Imagine a number out of your wildest dreams."
"Sh*t", I thought, he's gonna make this hard, but at least he's talking.
I made him very low offer to get the ball rolling, and he wasn't insulted,
which was good.
Mike threw out a tall number, so I wandered out and drove away, but I really wanted it,
and he knew that.

So I called him a couple hours later and told him I'd give him his price.
Hell, its only money, right?

So, here it is, a Vietnam-era Bell AH-1 Cobra Gunship (the "Huey Gunship") Gunner's Control Panel.

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The Abrams Instrument Corp weapons counters are dated Aug. '67.

Here is a pic of the full gunner cockpit and instrument panel.
You can see the Gunner Control Panel just above and to the right of the helmet.

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From a website:

The AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter was developed by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Limited (Bell model 209) in 1965 as a successor to the UH-1B and UH-1C Huey utility helicopters that served in Vietnam. It was the world's first dedicated armed attack helicopter and had a crew of two in tandem, the pilot in the rear seat and the gunner in the front. The AH-1 is a fast and heavily armed helicopter and has been built in many versions over the years. The AH-1G helicopter protected unarmed Bell UH-1 Huey helicopters during the Vietnam war and was first used in 1967. A flight also formed hunter-killer units together with scout helicopters. The Cobra was powered by a Lycoming T53-L-13 turbine engine. This engine, a new wide-bladed rotor and the slim design of the fuselage gave it a maximum speed of 170 knots, which is about two times the speed of the Hueys it had to protect.

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