Pate Swapmeet 2014

[graybeard]

Ed,
This year, unlike last year, I got out and prowled around a little. I stopped by your Winnie, once and knocked, went by several times, your chopper was never there.

In route home I lost what I thought was a good tire, on the trailer, put a good spare on, it blew about 80 miles later. The Airsrteam ended up being left in Guthrie over night, over the course of the weekend and the Monday after, I bought six tires. The 255 60 15 on the drivers side rear of Shoe String, when it blew, sounded like 105 MM round fired out of a M64 with out benifit of ear muffs.

Hope to see you there next year Ed.

IRL

[betfm]

IRL,

Man, you have had a fun trip. I too was doing a lot of cruising around. I did see you leaving in your truck one day when I was riding my chopper to the swap meet, but I didn't have enough HP to catch up--need to work out a FE conversion.

I left sat afternoon about 3pm as a lot of venders were closing up shop and leaving--by then I had cruised the swap meet about 4 times, I wanted to stop by Slick 60's compound 1 more time but was running out of gas after 4 days of shopping.

I am still in OKC visiting grandchildren. I am leaving tomorrow am for Denver and a swap meet at Bandimere Drag strip this saturday that I been going to several years.

Could you pm me your number as I have a friend in Gypsum Co. that may be interested in a headliner. I think it is for a 65 or 66.

Perhaps we will meet up again in 2015.

Take care,
Ed

[jeffdmartin]

New member here... I'm Jeff.

I met some of the Slick60s crew at Pate's swap meet, and the BBQ at PFM's place. Thanks for the hospitality to PFM, Uncle Skip, and the others that I forget the screen names. I moved to Texas recently. My truck is still in North Carolina. I am getting some engine work completed later this month in NC before moving it be with me.

I am doing some upgrades to my slick and will have quite a few questions. I will be searching, reading, etc on the site for a while.

First question: I have a partially restored '65 mustang with aftermarket AC. I am selling the mustang, and am thinking of removing the AC and putting in the truck since it won't add/detract from the mustang sales price.

Anybody have any input, pictures of the mustang AC system in a slick truck? I am concerned it will dominate the interior space.

The AC system looks like the picture attached. I also included a picture of the mustang with the truck in the background (to introduce the truck to the group!). I tried to attach two pictures, we'll see if they work...

Thanks, and Hello to all! I am already trying to make plans to work SlickStock into my schedule...

[Toyz]

Welcome, Jeff, glad you made it, and enjoyed talking with you. Just my opinion, but for the prices as evidenced at Pate, I would be inclined to leave the Mustang unit in place and purchase a replacement, especially if planning to sell the 'stang down here!. The evaporator does not have to match the rest of the system, leaving you some good options at both ends. I personally don't care for the appearance of the Mustang evaporator; although I would probably run one if I had no other cheap options.
I will try to post a pic of the evaporators in one of my trucks, and also the nicely integrated unit in Dale's. (He's the guy sleeping in the chair at Pate!)
Again,
Paul

[PFM-64f100]

Good to see you joined Jeff. I agree bite the bullet and get that classic auto air unit (from grapevine). It is an easy bolt in. It is cold enough to cool off my CrewCab.

[jeepbut]

Jeff, if you just want an under dash unit for reasonable price, contact Lucky's Rod shop in Ennis, Texas. They are just down the road from you. Thanks, Lyman.

[Max]

Pate was a blast as usual! Great seeing everyone and I think we all seemed to be running on 7 cylinders at Chris's Bar-Bee-Que. If it's sunny and you don't put sunscreen on by 9 am... you'll be a redneck by 11 am. I took a handful of my typical goofy pics of stuff i see that I'll post soon.

[jeffdmartin]

Thanks Toyz, PFM, Jeepbut ! I recall the jeepbut story now...

Good info on AC guys, much appreciated.

[dirtweed]

Hey I was at pate this year and and left my info to get a fiberglass headliner for my 66. Have not heard anything. Can I get some contact info? He was sold out and was expecting some more in a month or 2.

[graybeard]

Hey I was at pate this year and and left my info to get a fiberglass headliner for my 66. Have not heard anything. Can I get some contact info? He was sold out and was expecting some more in a month or 2.

******We just produced three sets, two of those sets are awaiting local pickup on the way to Slick Stock. We make them three sets at a time the one set is not spoken for. PM me.

IRL COLLINS
SHADETREE ENGINEERING