He has his heart in the right place and that's exactly why he's such a success.

I was at the Sheraton bar in Pomona last year and he was sitting next to me, enjoying a drink. I didn't know who he was (I'd never seen his picture) but I started talking to him and even after he introduced himself as "Roy" it still didn't click. Lot's of people were walking by and saying hi to him and I knew he built cars, but I still didn't know just who he was. My coworker came in and was thrilled to meet him, then I knew who I'd been talking to for 15 minutes. Of all the builders I've met he's one of the most genuine and accessible out there.

Greg, since Charley is your finance guy can you be mine so I can do a Roy build? I want to keep my $$ in the market per Investing 102 rules lol

Another hot rod
 

Actually the money will cost too much after he borrows
From charley then loans it to you

Kinda like our banks who get it almost
Free from the government and then jack the prices
up with all kinds of BS conditions etc

When you don't need money they want to loan it
but if you do need it then they make it difficult

Not like the old days where they really wanted to help you
and actually acted like a bank

Better off financing yourself

Panteracer

Every time I ask Charley for more - he tells me he's "between money".... Keep reading Investing 102 - then you become the bank.










I'm able to borrow all the money I'd never need.... at usually less than 2%.... And I agree with you. If you don't need the money it's easily accessible....
Banks were never there to help you. They were there to make money off you lending you someone else's money and making the spread.

I think the banks changed when people changed. It used to be that PEOPLE WANTED to pay their debts.... now they just want everything and if they screw the bank and keep the stuff - they think they're smart.

My ex partner used to sum it up ==== The only people that ever screwed me - where the ones I trusted.

Simple enough... you only ever opened credit up to those you thought you could trust. Sometimes they screwed you. The guy you never trusted - was never given the chance.

I just got off the phone with Mister Brizio.... seems they finally came up with a fix and found some reasons the '33 was overheating. As it turns out - Ed Pink was also in on the fix! For those of you that are unfamiliar with Ed Pink - I feel sorry for you... go look him up.


So -- several things stacked up to be an overall issue. Not necessarily in the order of fault.

The upper radiator hose was taken DOWN under the fan motor and then back up to the radiator. This looked like and acted like a plumbing "P trap"... Add to this that the "U" bend to make the P part was metal tubing - and it was attached via a bracket to the fan to hold it... As the motor heated up -- this caused "movement" albeit slowly - but enough - to put torque on the fan housing causing the blade to engage the housing... slowing the fan. You wouldn't hear this driving - and it had worn a considerable groove in the housing. Probably during the first few outings - so the interference was there but without any "clicking" to tip you off.

Now then -- enter mister Ed Pink -- since the Brizio crew was still having the overheating issue even after finding the P trap / fan issue and replacing those parts of the problem.... Ed had seen the car and we'd spent time together at the LA Roadster show... He stopped by the shop when visiting San Francisco and, seeing it back at the shop, asked "why". When told why - he said he'd run into a similar problem before -- and asked if there was an overflow/catch can in the system since he couldn't see one. There was none... and he said that he had fixed a similar problem by simply adding one. Seems without this - the engine sucks in air - and then creates hot spots... They added one - and the problem is solved.

Now it's off to Sid Chavers to replace the lower seat leather where I punctured it when I sat down with a side cutter in my back pocket - during one of the many in and outs starting the car when I was trying to solve the problem before taking it back to Brizio. DOH! WTF.... it keeps people employed... whatever... I'm over it. LOL

I guess that is why Ed Pink is so good. Never in a million years would it dawn on me that a catch can would aid in a heating issue.

Glenn

You, Me, and the Brizio crew either!!

It was left off because it's a packaging issue with the nose being so pinched on these cars... it's just tight as hell up there... and we never used to have to have them. Today every car has them but I would have thought that was an EPA type rule.

Great News! :thumbsup:


I hate those moments with a passion! :bang:

NOBODY likes those moments for sure! I do tend to just shrug it off rather than get upset about it. My view is - Oh well - something else we have to get fixed.

Then I go shoot myself for being such an idiot. I know better than to do stuff like that.