As I mentioned before: one of the reasons we bought the Great Dale was the carpet…and one of the reasons we sold it was because I had to rip it out. We spent a LOT of time and money trying to bring it to life a couple of years ago and failed miserably. I made […]
It truly is the end of an era. The Great Dale is now owned by http://flatwurks.com/. Buy some art so he can pay for gas. He says to particularly buy this piece from S. Clay Wilson http://flatwurks.com/scw.html. And before you ask: Now the Airstream is at least one month closer to getting started. There are
Larry at Retro Restoration http://www.retrorestoration.com/ works amazingly fast and is ready to skin and paint the Great Dale.
Great Dale 2.4 is finally completed 3.5 years later. If you remember back to the early COVID days and months; we weren’t supposed to travel and go to public restrooms. The Great Dale 2.0 had the tiniest pull-out camp toilet, which was fine for emergencies and tiny people like Lina Dennison. However, if we were
Adding the new toilet opened a can of worms. I had to extend the cabinet opening, which meant lifting some of the carpet. That released some glue and patches of the glue started disintegrating, which created craters under the carpet that made it weird to walk on. So we removed the carpet with plans to
I decided that I would do a quick project every year to update it. We decided to replace the entire steering system from the column to the wheels. I loved the loosey-goosey 1965 steering, but Lina has always hated it, so we decided to get a more modern steering box. The job looked too big
Do want to camp in the middle of a racetrack, look at hundreds of classic cars, and listen to rockabilly music? If so, this is the event for you! We have been trying to get to the Rock & Rumble for years, but it was always the same week as the Denver Modernism show where
I had a switch that connected the two battery systems together so that I could charge one with the other, but this wasn’t an ideal system because the coronet battery is lead-acid and the RV battery was lithium. They run at two different voltages and the wire between them was just a long #12AWG through
The height adjustment for the great dale has always been maxed out from the day we bought it, but we never did anything about it because I always thought that replacing the torsion bars was going to be really expensive and hard to do. Turns out it should be really easy, so I decided that
The Great Dale was in for some routine maintenance and the mechanic noticed that the front wheel turned normally until the brakes were applied. The wheel would stop turning until pressure was relieved in the system. That meant the front brakes were always on when I was driving, which I always suspected because there always