So, i have to start a new thread so my 64 Bonneville rebuild thread doesn't get messier !!

Here i am nearing the end of my 1964 pontiac 2 door hard top rebuild, ( not finished at all !!) and what a fantastic journey its been with ALL the support and information that the great members of fp have helped myself with over the last couple of years!!

And you guys know who i am talking about... i need to shout lots of beers when Fitzy and i get to visit !! 

And lots more exciting new stuff coming....🙄

But for every guys story about their Pontiac, there has to be a boss ( wife) who MUST get her time and wants in life !! heck of a job, but it must be done!!happy wife happy something??? i forget ! hahaha 

i have worked out what 1 Pontiac rebuild is worth!!! a addition to the house!! thats how it works here anyway...

The boss wants a whole new room added onto the house... justA little job!!!

plans have to be drawn, council approval, etc etc etc.

Well today is the first real picture of the start of my next job ( outside Monday to Saturday business )

The addition is 7.5m x 8m new lounge/ entertainment/ library.

Today, i dug the footing for the new addition ...

 

Edited February 20, 20224 yr by 64 kiwi boni

Here, we sit on not dirt, but Pumice, its super light, compacts well and makes for a great foundation for building on.

basically when Taupo was a mountain back 20 million years ago and exploded we ended up with a mega load of aerated rock falling to earth and thats Pumice!! 

not flash for growing things in but good of dense foundations and drainage.

Edited February 20, 20224 yr by 64 kiwi boni

Dang, good luck with that! Interested to see how it goes 👍

 

Chris, I hope you used a digger to dig out the footings, and not a spade!

Spade mate !

took me 5 hours yesterday 

about 3 m3 of super hard pumice ! 

trust me the first 2 beers afterwards didn’t touch the sides 

Footing steel work in today 

No work today being Tuesday 22nd !! am  taking the boss on a road trip,taking the hellcat, going to a special restaurant for lunch.

then visit the grand kids and might even go some where nice for Dinner tonight to. might even buy myself some cashew nuts and Liquorice

Edited February 21, 20224 yr by 64 kiwi boni

NOW you're talking. Whittaker's chocolate, NZ snapper & chips and some of that fantastic licorice. A Kiwi friend of mine knew I was a licorice freak and she bought me a packet of NZ licorice that she found in her local Darwin supermarket. Lordy, I struggled to make that packet last 2 days! I forget the brand, but it was some family name. Damn fine licorice. Have you tried the Dutch salted licorice? They stamp it out like coins and you have a choice of saltiness. Yum.

Oh. Building site, muscle car, yeah, whatever. Now, back to licorice...

If it was kiwi licorice mate I think you would have got “black knight”..... 

its the best 👍👍👍👍👍

never tried salted licorice !! Must find some 🍻

https://rjs.nz/products/black-knight/

Edited February 22, 20224 yr by 64 kiwi boni

I'm not sure why, but I've never liked the taste of black licorice / ouzo. Even as a kid, I found it off putting. I really learned to hate it when some wise acre spiked my beer with a shot of ouzo in college. We almost got in a fight over it, I was that pissed!

Red licorice - bring it on. Black - get it out of my face! Ugh. You boys can have it. It just doesn't agree with me.

Kiwi - this is the price you have to pay for your next project? This is your source of brownie points from the boss?

On 2/20/2022 at 10:12 PM, 64 kiwi boni said:

Footing steel work in today 

Ah, the memories! Close to the same size I added to the back of mine. I had to take out a load bearing wall for the upstairs though & reverse it to the outer walls of the addition. Even than it was one man, one leg, a hammer, trowel & a lotta sweat😔!

Kiwi you guys clearly don’t have much, if any, of a frost line?! My footers are 48” deep. Have to be by code. Have fun! Always like building house & additions, but only second to cars though!

My boss keeps whining about having a pool put in the back yard on hot summer days. She can have a pool once she figures out who's going to take care of it. We had a pool at our last house. It was an in-ground pool. I got no help from her or the kid. I was constantly having to skim leaves out of it (we had trees all around the yard that seemed to crap leaves all summer long), I was constantly vacuuming and adding chlorine to stave off algae blooms (I lost sometimes too). I nearly lost it the day I lit the pool heater for the season and the combustion chamber literally blew up in my face. Now I need a new pool heater....it's essentially a small furnace.

So once we sold the house and bought this one, I swore off pools. No one wanted to help me take care of it, I not interested in maintaining it for them while they sit on their duffs. They can go get a lawn sprinkler for all I care.

Mmmm licorice, red or black! Never seen salted though

2 hours ago, Last Indian said:

Kiwi you guys clearly don’t have much, if any, of a frost line?! My footers are 48” deep. Have to be by code. Have fun! Always like building house & additions, but only second to cars though!

thats me too!!! i really enjoy building, but using wood is justA pita !!! its not straight or strong,... metal is wayyyy nicer to play with!! 

3 hours ago, Frosty said:

Kiwi - this is the price you have to pay for your next project? This is your source of brownie points from the boss?

yes i feel it is mate!!!!

2 hours ago, Last Indian said:

Kiwi you guys clearly don’t have much, if any, of a frost line?! My footers are 48” deep.

1.2m deep!!! wow thats extreme Last Indian!! i only had to go down 420mm to form the footing/bondbeam foundation for load. frost levels here clearly are not as much as your part of the world

Edited February 22, 20224 yr by 64 kiwi boni

14 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

If it was kiwi licorice mate I think you would have got “black knight”..... 

its the best 👍👍👍👍👍

never tried salted licorice !! Must find some 🍻

https://rjs.nz/products/black-knight/

THAT'S the stuff! Glorious product. You can buy Dutch salted licorice at any GOOD confectionery. Like I said, it's hard, coin shaped and you pick the saltiness. Don't let the addition of salt put you off - it works.

Just between you & me, let's sneak a nip of ouzo into Frosty's beer and say that JustA did it, then watch the ensuing brawl.

Here you go - I encourage you to try some.

50 minutes ago, Fitzy said:

THAT'S the stuff! Glorious product. You can buy Dutch salted licorice at any GOOD confectionery. Like I said, it's hard, coin shaped and you pick the saltiness. Don't let the addition of salt put you off - it works.

Just between you & me, let's sneak a nip of ouzo into Frosty's beer and say that JustA did it, then watch the ensuing brawl.

hehehe, yeah lets see what happens

1 hour ago, Fitzy said:

THAT'S the stuff! Glorious product. You can buy Dutch salted licorice at any GOOD confectionery. Like I said, it's hard, coin shaped and you pick the saltiness. Don't let the addition of salt put you off - it works.

Just between you & me, let's sneak a nip of ouzo into Frosty's beer and say that JustA did it, then watch the ensuing brawl.

You could lite it on fire and he wouldn't notice.  The stumpwater cleared out too many braincells.  On the other hand, that's why he's so much fun to hang out with!   Thankz GE  

Ah, sweet brain cells. I have a faint memory of what it was like to be coherent, cognitive & able to think things through. Now, I have to check to make sure I'm wearing pants before I set foot into the wider community.

This reminds me of a story I read in our local rag (the Cairns Post) a newspaper so unworthy of circulation that you'd wrap fish n chips in emery cloth as a first option. Some poor older man sat on a toilet seat in our main shopping centre where some idiot had smeared superglue. Emergency services had to break into the cubicle and carry him out through the shopping centre to a medical centre where they could separate him from the seat. I know, hilarious, right? Unless you were that person, denied any dignity whatsoever as you were unceremoniously removed from a crowded public place with your arse firmly glued to a dunny seat. I'm laughing as I write this but IT'S NOT FUNNY!

42 minutes ago, Fitzy said:

Ah, sweet brain cells. I have a faint memory of what it was like to be coherent, cognitive & able to think things through. Now, I have to check to make sure I'm wearing pants before I set foot into the wider community.

This reminds me of a story I read in our local rag (the Cairns Post) a newspaper so unworthy of circulation that you'd wrap fish n chips in emery cloth as a first option. Some poor older man sat on a toilet seat in our main shopping centre where some idiot had smeared superglue. Emergency services had to break into the cubicle and carry him out through the shopping centre to a medical centre where they could separate him from the seat. I know, hilarious, right? Unless you were that person, denied any dignity whatsoever as you were unceremoniously removed from a crowded public place with your arse firmly glued to a dunny seat. I'm laughing as I write this but IT'S NOT FUNNY!

mate it may have been Karma... did you think about that ? 

was he a retired conciliar or Politian. !!!

you know karma has it way  of balancing good with evil !!!

and one thing i learnt a long time ago!!!! never trust the media!!! for every true fact they will add 10x pure BS for wow factor!!

14 hours ago, Fitzy said:

Just between yoaddition of salt put you off - it works.u & me, let's sneak a nip of ouzo into Frosty's beer and say that JustA did it, then watch the ensuing brawl.

Conniving bastiches!

Although I gotta' admit from a sheer dastardly perspective, that is pretty impressive.

5 hours ago, Fitzy said:

Ah, sweet brain cells. I have a faint memory of what it was like to be coherent, cognitive & able to think things through. Now, I have to check to make sure I'm wearing pants before I set foot into the wider community.

 

That was before you got married and said "I do" - now it's "yes dear!". 

 

I never got married (nor had kids) but I still do the 'yes, Dear' thing coz it's just easier that way. Y'all know what I'm talking about.

19 minutes ago, Fitzy said:

I never got married (nor had kids) but I still do the 'yes, Dear' thing coz it's just easier that way. Y'all know what I'm talking about.

its cause you like the peace

I like sex AND peace, but not at the same time!