It Is A Dodge After All...

[cr8crshr]

And a wagon to boot, so this is to me a kind of neat idea and result...What say y'all??? cr8crshr/Bill

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[Cranky]

And a wagon to boot, so this is to me a kind of neat idea and result...What say y'all??? cr8crshr/Bill

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In early 63 dad looked at a 62 left over Lancer car but couldn't stand the fake spare tire thang on the trunk lid and paid a bit more for a 63 Dart 2dr post. It wasn't long after that we (dad, my sister and me) headed 2000 miles south. Bare bones car with no AC. It wasn't bad but wouldn't want to do that nowadays lol

 

[davek]

 

[Cranky]

I don't get it....a building with a dirt floor. See it a lot though.

 

[Budnicks]

I really like wagons, but just a couple model years latter
& it'd be a yes...

 

[RR Fan Dan]

I don't get it....a building with a dirt floor. See it a lot though.

Back in the day, garages had dirt floors.

 

[Cranky]

Back in the day, garages had dirt floors.

Way back in the day? I remember seeing wood floors when I lived up north. Seen a few really old buildings in the south with dirt floors but most of them were sheds or lean to's.

 

[RR Fan Dan]

Way back in the day? I remember seeing wood floors when I lived up north. Seen a few really old buildings in the south with dirt floors but most of them were sheds or lean to's.

Quite a few of them around my neck of the woods in Virginia. Most houses here are pretty old. My house is 1959, and that’s fairly new for around here. Lots of houses here built in the late 1800’s early 1900’s still standing. Horse hair plaster walls, and 6 thick door frames. My friend has a house built in the 1700’s, 30 acres surrounded by 3 sides of water, that has been in his family forever since it was built. Around here we call those Plantations.

 

[Budnicks]

Way back in the day? I remember seeing wood floors when I lived up north. Seen a few really old buildings in the south with dirt floors but most of them were sheds or lean to's.

Wood on elevated floors,
a buddy of mine's dad house/garage was like that, up in the sticks of Georgetown Ca.
built in the early 50s
had a cutout section/lift out, you could remove to get under it to do services
pretty handy

yeah dirt was/is still pretty dang common in rural settings
horse country or farms, or road-based gravel (compacted) was common too
PITA to use a jack of any kind, need to use a piece of wood under it

 

[toolmanmike]

I don't get it....a building with a dirt floor. See it a lot though.

No rust. The dirt floor doesn't sweat like concrete.

 

[Cranky]

No rust. The dirt floor doesn't sweat like concrete.

My garage/shop floor doesn't sweat even with the huge temp and humidity changes here because when I built the shop I laid down a vapor barrier. It's just heavy mil plastic....

 

[Cranky]

Quite a few of them around my neck of the woods in Virginia. Most houses here are pretty old. My house is 1959, and that’s fairly new for around here. Lots of houses here built in the late 1800’s early 1900’s still standing. Horse hair plaster walls, and 6 thick door frames. My friend has a house built in the 1700’s, 30 acres surrounded by 3 sides of water, that has been in his family forever since it was built. Around here we call those Plantations.

My first house (1973) was built in 55 and the garage slab didn't sweat either. Would love to have 30 acres!

 

[OneWheelPeel]

Back in the 90s my dad renovated an old house in Hollywood, Ca. I was shocked to see the foundation was wood laying directly on dirt. They had to dig the whole parameter and pour cement to anchor it after using come alongs to straighten the house.

 

[Cranky]

Back in the 90s my dad renovated an old house in Hollywood, Ca. I was shocked to see the foundation was wood laying directly on dirt. They had to dig the whole parameter and pour cement to anchor it after using come alongs to straighten the house.

Wow. Do you know how old the house was? Sounds like it was before the state went nuts with regulations.....

 

[OneWheelPeel]

Wow. Do you know how old the house was? Sounds like it was before the state went nuts with regulations.....

I think 1920s or older, I tried to use Google maps to get the address so I could look it up, but they tore it all down to make a bunch of square box apartments.
My father lived on that property for awhile in one of the other houses and we had some cars there.

Fun unrelated story, it was across the street from a DMV with a large parking lot. When they would close for the day I would go there in my baja bug for a 10 minute section of drifting and donuts and then take off before cops would arrive, because idiot me assumed no one would then see me go DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET into his driveway, luckily no cops ever showed up.
During one session all of a sudden another baja bug showed up and started doing the same, he then told me the best dips in the neighborhood to hit at speed to get air. Fun times!