We got naughty and nice covered...

I hope this is what our future laundry room will look like.

Go to http://www.automaticwasher.org/COLLECTIONS.htm If you like this kind of thing, it will blow your mind.

Another nice philco.

I have this idea that we can start hot rodding fridges. I'll put bigger compressors in them, increase the diameter of the freon lines, and put huge evaporative coils with electric fans on them...

Then we can start timing them to see which ones can chill six packs in the shortest amount of time.

That's a super cool idea... (no pun intended...)

Hmmm...a '53 Philco "V" handle.

Should I get blue...

Or red...

Or maybe I could get both of these... and a white one...then put them side by side and have a real Americana kitchen... nahh...that's too much.

A starburst clock for my 50's living room. Yes, it's on ebay right now. You can win it for 19 bucks. If you win it.

It's "Tempo Turquoise"

What else can you say?

Here's a fabric swatch I found called "Celestial aqua" Perfect for the drapes. Actually, I bought Nat a sewing machine for Christmas. I'm going to get some of this and have her make drapes out of it for the Travco. Last time I was in the travco, I was licking a chocolate ice cream in a cone, and the wind kicked up the (white) drapes and blew them into my chocolate ice cream. So now they're white with a brown spot drapes. This will be the perfect switch. George Jetson would certainly approve.

Again in peach.. nice.

Here's some more metal cabinets. Not sure i'd like the hot pink. Looks like the stole the flooring from our warehouse, though.

A super cool magazine rack to go in my mid-century modern "house of the future."

Suddenly, it's 2010!!

Charles and Ray Eames will be jealous of my masterpiece.

My newest desire: A 50's metal kitchen. Unfortunately, it doesn't really go with our current house.

Strangely enough, I grew up with that exact table and chairs in our house. Unfortunately, I did not grow up with the rest of the kitchen in our house.

Rear view.

Our potential new family car. Front seat for us, back seat for the kids, way back seat for the dogs.

I'd put some weld pro-star wheels on it though.

A cool pic I took of the 58's grille today. Unfortunately, I think we'll be putting it up for sale soon. You can see the rest of the pics at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/32027243@N07/

Need to thin the herd to make room for...

My first shop, when I was doing cylinder head work and engine assembly. This must have been around late 95 or '96. Ahh, the memories.

Here's how you make your own hot tank in the backyard of your mom's house. First, you request MSDS sheets from the companies which sell hot tank solutions. From these, you can decipher what the active chemicals are. In this case, it basically turned out that hot tank solution is more or less pure lye, which consists of sodium hydroxide and sodium bicarbonate. Anyway, then you call up an industrial supply company and buy about 50 pounds of it (about an 800 engine supply) for about 40 bucks. Turns out, they use it for food preparation(?), so anyone off the street can buy it. Then you go get a 55 gallon drum and a ni-chrome heating element which wraps around the bottom of it to heat the contents. Then you mix about a cup of the chemicals with water. It also helps if you stir it all up with your mom's broomstick handle. Then you unplug your mom's 220 volt clothes dryer so you can plug in the hot tank. Then you lower engine blocks into it with your engine hoist, and VOILA! The next day your parts are as clean as new. However your mom may be slightly pissed that her backyard has been turned into an EPA hazard zone, and that she can no longer do any laundry.

One of Nat's modeling pictures... hot stuff!

Sema 2004. Holy crap. Has it been that long? If I was a freshman back then, I would be totally graduating this year.

This one is definately a finalist. Just replace the green grass in your mind with tumble weeds and joshua trees. Love the American flag though. And the garage is BEHIND the house.

Not bad... a bit small though.