Going for a drive

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 09:42 pm:

After finishing the rear axle in my 1923 touring, I drove it once and found out that the front wheel bearings were shot. I bought new bearings, but wanted to save them until I could have some demountable wheels ready to replace the nondemountables. Then yesterday the light went on. I realized that I had two good demountable front wheels I restored a couple of years ago for my TT project. So on they went, and today I drove to town. Here's the video:

http://youtu.be/21k8N9rR0GU


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dan Treace, North FL on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 09:52 pm:

Steve

Great! Your hidden camera shot of the choke lever and starter button is super :-)

And see that you left the rear door open and your dog jumped out and starting barking for you to stop and get 'em for that ride to town.

Say, why was you key still on batt, doesn't the mag work on your touring ? :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Craig Anderson, central Wisconsin on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 10:31 pm:

Isn't it fun living in an area where can just jump in and go for a drive without worrying yourself stupid about everyone ELSE?....... :-)
Even the state highway that runs through town, State Road 66, isn't so heavily traveled that I need to worry much about traffic.
Besides, the wide "bicycle" lanes along side the traffic lanes let me drive far enough to the right that most traffic can pass me without crossing the center line anyway.
What fun!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Carl Sorenson-Lake Arrowhead,CA on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 11:04 pm:

That was great Steve!!!!!! I'm going to show it to my Son.....He loves to make videos.....I hope it turns out half as good as yours...thanks for sharing.....Carl


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By John Semprez on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 11:21 pm:

I would like to meet your camera man. This was great! Do tell!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jim Thode Chehalis Washington on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 11:31 pm:

Steve,
Very good! Was this one man production or did have some help? You need to add credits.

The driving down the road/street scenes are very good. If you did them yourself I could just see coming back to get your camera and someone had ran off with it.

Jim


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 11:34 pm:

Dan, I usually drive on MAG, but in that one shot I guess I was distracted by video recording and forgot.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By George Harrison,Norco Ca on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 11:44 pm:

Great video and your part of Kansas is beautiful.Town looks peaceful and quiet.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Tom Lovejoy, So Cal on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 11:56 pm:

Very cool, well done. I did not see another car? or any other people,unbelievable. You would not believe the difference here in L.A. + what we drive in. Looks like what I would of thought of our country in the 30's. Looks like great T country for sure, thanks for sharing.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 11:58 pm:

It was a one-man show all the way. Shots of the choke, brake lever, and spark lever were hand-held, as was the underpass shot. Everything else was by tripod. I was lucky to find a couple of relatively deserted residential streets, but I also had to wait for some occasional traffic to pass. Sometime I'll enlist a helper and do a fancier video.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By bill harris on Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 12:19 am:

Steve: One word... WONDERFUL :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Randy Milano Bradenton, Florida on Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 12:31 am:

That was killer Steve.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Stroud on Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 01:57 am:

Steve, you are becoming quite the video producer! Two thumbs up! Dave


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 02:09 am:

I bet you had as much fun making that as we all did watching it. Well done. A real simple pleasure we can all relate to even if we live in a less pastoral area.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Thomas on Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 02:35 am:

Steve, i really like Your little movie. You have an eye for details. Great!! All movies have goofs, just look at American Graffiti, another cult movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069704/trivia?tab=gf


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Stroud on Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 03:42 am:

One of my favorite goofs, which appears all of the time in movies and TV, is the scene where someone is driving a vehicle with the automatic transmission shift lever in the "Park" position. There are of course MANY others. Makes you wonder just how stupid these people think we are. End of rant. Dave


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Roger Karlsson, southern Sweden on Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 04:22 am:

Great video! I think your dog would have loved to join you on the trip :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Gary Schreiber- Aiken, SC on Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 05:21 am:

Great Steve. Loved the dog running down the lane too.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dane Hawley Near Melbourne Australia on Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 06:20 am:

Great Steve. It tells a story, and that's what I like about such a film. Pity you didn't show what you went to town to get! I particularly liked the welcoming bark you received after turning into your driveway.
Thanks, Dane


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By J Berch on Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 06:54 am:

Well done Steve! I found myself wondering how long that little trip to town must have taken with all the camera setup and planning. Very instructional as far as operating the car as well. I'm looking forward to the sequel. :-) Thanks, John


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 09:04 am:

Thanks all for the good reviews. Whenever I'm out driving around the county I keep an eye open for good shooting locations. One of these days I'll do a video on T era roads.

Daisy is a sweetheart, but she doesn't ride much because she sometimes springs a leak when she gets excited.

Dane, I went to town for materials to make a Model T tool. I'll post a picture of it if it works.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By John Doolittle on Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 09:31 am:

A Ghost?

Steve that was a mighty fine video!

Did I get a glimpse of a ghost at 0:41? Thank him for shutting the back door when it slung open.

At 2:13 I think I caught a glimpse of him.

Let's have some more videos!

Hands free?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Wayne Sheldon, Grass Valley, CA on Friday, April 20, 2012 - 04:07 am:

Film flubs are an interesting thing. While many flubs are exactly that, it amazes me how many things are called errors that really are not. When an entire day from more than a dozen viewpoints is compressed down into ninety minutes, what hand someone is holding their cigarette in is not an error as every single motion of their hand cannot be shown and they could have easily switched between view changes. (I read the "American Graffiti" list) It reminded me of the "Pretty Women" flubs list. On their picnic, in one scene Richard Gere has his shoes off, in another scene he has them on. But the conversation clearly places some time between the two scenes. There is no reason to believe he could not have taken them off and put them on several times during their leisurely afternoon. Yet flub lists continue to list that one.
Wolfman Jack WAS on Mexican radio in the fifties and early sixties. Many communities banned him at that time. The Mexican stations were known as "pirate" stations. I can not tell you if the call letters were correct or not, but Mexico did not use the "W" or "K" call series. There were far fewer stations on the air in those days. On AM, it was common to listen to stations even a thousand miles away, well within the reach to Modesto.

Steve Jelf,
You continue to amaze me. An incredible video, very well done! And that touring is also looking great!
I would not call the ghost a flub. The camera view is from the drivers point of view. If I were driving that car there, would I not see my reflection in the glass? And, it looks enough like me to accept it.
Drive carefully, a lot, and enjoy, W2


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Royce in Dallas TX on Friday, April 20, 2012 - 08:26 am:

Wow Steve that was fantastic. I bet that video consumed more than a day of work to produce. Very nice indeed.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Friday, April 20, 2012 - 10:05 am:

The Wolfman was on XERF in Ciudad Acuņa, Coahuilla, and XERB in Rosarito Beach, Baja California. Those stations were "border blasters", high-powered AM stations that covered much of the central and western US at night. Free of FCC oversight, they advertised products and services like bogus male enhancements that weren't heard on US radio.

The trip to town, including the shooting, took about three hours. Using iMovie, editing took about an hour. I think the program includes fades, but I can't use that feature because I haven't found it yet.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Keith Gumbinger, Kenosha, WI on Friday, April 20, 2012 - 12:54 pm:

Steve - Very nice film. I can appreciate the work in making it by yourself.... Stop, set up the camera & start it, then drive the T by, then turn around & pick up the camera, then move on to the next place, etc. Very nice.

Thanks, Keith


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By tyler searle on Friday, April 20, 2012 - 09:20 pm:

Very well done Mr. Jelf. This forum is better place because of those like you. Thank you.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Walker, NW AR on Friday, April 20, 2012 - 10:21 pm:

I used to listen to the Wolfman when I was in high school in Oklahoma. He said he was coming from Del Rio, Texas.

I just found this on Wikipedia: Del Rio is known as the American address of legendary Mexican radio stations XERA and XERF just over the U.S.-Mexico border in Ciudad Acuņa; their 500,000-watt signals could be heard at night as far away as Canada. Legendary deejay Wolfman Jack operated XERF in the 1960s, using a Del Rio address to sell various products advertised on the station.

I never knew that. :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Friday, April 20, 2012 - 10:31 pm:

Somehow Powell Crosley got permission from the FCC for WLW to broadcast "experimentally" at 500,000 watts. Supposedly people in the Cincinnati area could hear the station on their eyeglasses and their fillings and barbed wire fences.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Wayne Sheldon, Grass Valley, CA on Saturday, April 21, 2012 - 03:39 am:

Okay. I have to tell this. When I was in High School, back in the '60s. One of the last classes I had for the day was in a portable building on the edge of the parking lot. When mid spring rolled around, the poor teacher had to put the air conditioner on in the afternoon, or roast. Along about the second day of AC, he, and the rest of the class began to hear something. A couple days later, as it kept getting a little bit louder, he started demanding that "whoever brought the transistor radio had better turn it off and never bring it back!" After much denial and discussion, the sound was found to be coming from the air conditioner. Within days, it was torn apart, nothing found, and they could only make it stop by turning off the AC. As the weather heated up, the problem got worse. No one in class would listen to the teacher because they were so fascinated by the radio station. Most of the last six weeks of that class were held on the lawn under a tree.
Under certain circumstances, a fan can act as a tuning oscillator and speaker.
I kid you not.
Drive carefully, and enjoy the ride! W2


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Doug Wilson on Saturday, April 21, 2012 - 08:26 am:

Pure inspiration to go work on the '21 touring out in the garage. Some day............


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dennis Halpin on Saturday, April 21, 2012 - 04:28 pm:

Steve, you're dating yourself and me too. I remember XERB and 'Wolfman Jack' quite well. Just out of curiosity, could you pick him up in Kansas?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Larry Bohlen, Severn MD on Saturday, April 21, 2012 - 04:35 pm:

Wayne,

Wasn't that the basis for "mechanical" vs electronic TV?

Larry


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Saturday, April 21, 2012 - 05:58 pm:

Dennis, I don't know. I was in California in those days. I imagine they could get him here when he was on XERF. I do recall a bunch of us from Pepperdine driving to Muskogee in 1962. We left in the evening, and started picking up KOMA in OKC around Palm Springs. we listened to it all through Arizona and New Mexico that night. The hits we heard over and over were Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport, Sukiyaki, and Sweet Dreams of You. Listened to it again on the return trip. Same songs.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By J Berch on Saturday, April 21, 2012 - 06:27 pm:

All great Songs. Sukiyaki was a little hard to sing along with.

"My friend is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk"......
Steven Wright


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Stroud on Saturday, April 21, 2012 - 07:16 pm:

We used to listen to KOMA here in N.W. MO. in the sixties and seventies. It wouldn't come in until the sun went down, didn't make any difference what time it was, just when the sun went down. Came in great then. It was my favorite station back then. Dave


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Joseph Magedanz on Sunday, April 22, 2012 - 12:28 am:

We could get good reception on KOMA in the evenings in SE South Dakota when I was kid in the '60s...great reception actually...


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Herb Iffrig on Sunday, April 22, 2012 - 10:29 pm:

I asked my cousin Dale about Wayne's story.
He sent this reply.
"Electrogalvanic corrosion sometimes makes a diode at a metal joint.


(such as copper attached to galvanized steel)


(you can see the green stuff oozing out of the joint)



Two different kinds of metal in loose contact.


That joint rectifies an amplitude modulated wavefront. (AM radio)


Don't really know what would provide the "speaker" !


Unless the motor or solenoid moved with the detected wavefront.


The rectifier, diode action, is like the old crystal radios.


Herb


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Herb Iffrig on Monday, April 23, 2012 - 12:47 am:

Wayne "Where were you in 62?"

Herb


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