G44 wrote:Cool ride! Tell us about it. What is it? What is in it???

Oh ya,

Congratulations on you new home, way to go! As an airpark guy myself I can tell you, nothing like going out for a nice smooth evening flight right out your back door and coming back for a relaxing "soda pop" afterward. You are going to love it!

M6RV6 wrote:

G44 wrote:Cool ride! Tell us about it. What is it? What is in it???

Oh ya,

Congratulations on you new home, way to go! As an airpark guy myself I can tell you, nothing like going out for a nice smooth evening flight right out your back door and coming back for a relaxing "soda pop" afterward. You are going to love it!

I think it is a 18 with 985's!!
Oh Wait, you mean the wheels, sorry!

deckofficer wrote:

M6RV6 wrote:

G44 wrote:Cool ride! Tell us about it. What is it? What is in it???

Oh ya,

Congratulations on you new home, way to go! As an airpark guy myself I can tell you, nothing like going out for a nice smooth evening flight right out your back door and coming back for a relaxing "soda pop" afterward. You are going to love it!

I think it is a 18 with 985's!!
Oh Wait, you mean the wheels, sorry!

Your correct on both counts for the Beech.

deckofficer wrote:

G44 wrote:Cool ride! Tell us about it. What is it? What is in it???

Oh ya,

Congratulations on you new home, way to go! As an airpark guy myself I can tell you, nothing like going out for a nice smooth evening flight right out your back door and coming back for a relaxing "soda pop" afterward. You are going to love it!

For Fast Eddie, don't forget to use Zillow and on the main page before you search properties plug in the word "hangar" so the filter will get rid of all listings that don't have that word. Then plug in the commonly mis-spelled "hanger" and you will see those listings.

G44, everything you said is exactly what I'm looking forward to doing. As to my little ride, it is a 1923 Ford Track-T and registered as a 1923 because there is 3" of original frame saved for the build that had the VIN stamped on it. I have run 3 different engines and two manual transmissions over its life. Current engine I had built by Scott Shafiroff, uses a Dart block and is a 427 cid. Very mild build so quite streetable because the output is 525 hp at an easy 5700 rpm. I've had a very peaky, temperamental engine as the first one and just don't care for the raspy, loping idle and lack of low rpm grunt. Since the car only weighs 1790 lbs with a 1/2 tank of gas, the 525 hp is plenty, good for 9.7 in the 1/4. First transmission was a Muncie M21 4 speed, but I built a 350 sbc with a 400 crank for 383 cid and concentrated on as much torque as I could get but more important how low in the rpm band I could get it. Dyno sheet showed 516 lb/ft at 2800 so I replaced the Muncie before I hurt it with a Tremec TKO 600 5 speed with 0.64 OD. This engine gave up a lot of hp (my guess over 120 hp) for that much torque at that low rpm. It dyno'ed 320 hp at 4050 rpm, and that low rpm was the peak, it fell off from there. The engine was a sweet purring pussycat that could pull top gear at 900 rpm up a 6 percent grade at 45 mph. Neither of the other two engines want to do much work below 2000 rpm. Fuel mileage was outstanding with the torque engine, breaking 30 mpg on a flat highway at 65 mph, the 427 gets 17 mpg and the screamer only managed about 12 mpg. I gave you more info than you probably wanted, but the questions you asked I pegged you as a fellow gearhead.

Flyhound wrote:Deckofficer: Yup, Port Townsend is in the same rainshadow. It is raining like crazy in Port Orchard just 30 miles south of us but the skies are dry here today. It is pretty amazing and dramatic. That is one of the key reasons we choose this place for retirement. 35 years ago I traveled around the Pacific on a wooden Mason 31' sloop. Now I just crew on other people's sailboats. I am building a kayak though. They revoke your right to live here if you don't own one. We fly to the San Juan's on a regular basis. This is a magical area.

Barnstormer wrote:Congrats on a great find with great weather. I appreciate the level of research you put in and that you are sharing what you found.

And your right about places being for sale that aren't for sale and certainly are listed for sale. The lot we bought to build our hangar wasn't for sale. But someone knew someone who knew someone who knew how to approach the owner, and he said yes.

And congrats.

fast eddie wrote:Amazing thread. I do presently have an airpark home here in Abilene, Texas (tx00). Lots are 1 acre and in the low 30's. Hanger homes allowed and a cheap HOA of $100 year. There are some excellent backcountry ops within 40 minutes cub time.