meanwhile...2 days later..

Still no joy with loading my own photos.....text is fine...you tube videos etc...just can't do my own pics.....might be because I updated to Windows 10, then went back to Windows 7, and somehow, it has stopped the ability to load my pics....if I can't fix this...I might have to start a new blog with some other host other than "blogger"....

Hot Rod Galahads

Don Walser: Hot Rod Mercury..at least I can post youtube vids...

still no joy...

Text will load, but photos won't...maybe I might just have to start describing to you what I was going to photograph...

not sure what I am doing wrong....

Well...this sucks...I decided to update my computer to Windows 10 with the free download.....wrong...first, it seemed fine, computer ran quicker...e mails, facebook, my internet searches, printshop etc. all seems fine.....
But then..my blog...first..can't get the scanner to work again...finally downloaded a programme that restored it....but..hello!...then I couldn't find my "picture" file to drop the scans into....searching...searching...finally found it, so we are away....got onto the blog.....loaded up some photos, and the stupid thing won't load the pics.....nothing happens...just have to cancel it and start again...hence, this little bit of text to let you know that, "Houston..we have a problem"....

lets hope I can sort it out soon...

GT

Coffee...August 16...2015..

 Well...a great turn-out for my 40th Coffee n Cars event...it's been three years since I started this in August 2012, and no looking back....

 funny though how the numbers don't change too much, but there are new cars at nearly every morning....if everyone turns up at once....we'd have about 200 cars!

 someone mentioned they counted 45 today...that's all good...sometimes, like today...I hardly had time to take photos, or catch up with people...got too side-tracked..

 What I love to see....old and new..swappin' stories..

Just a reminder..next coffee is Sept 6...I can't be there...but everyone else will roll in as usual...so come along, starts at 7, go whenever it suits you...

 By the time I stopped talking, and wanted to take pics....most of the cars were gone!

anyone notice Longhorn Les has "lost" the teardrops, and fitted original style lights and bumpers...pity he didn't know a painter to finish the fenders....

 a new visitor was Floyd , who came over from Redcliffe....he was the guy that when in Mt Isa, and 16 years old, bought the old Lymberry metalflaked 32 roadster for $600....and sold it a year later....maybe he will get the urge to start a hot rod project now!!...just sayin'....

 Reminder for my next mid-week run...we go to the Beerwah pub for lunch...meet us there, or join us at the BP pictured below...Burpengary..10 am...

 We will leave to go up Steve Irwin Way at around 10:30..10:45...see u there!

 Couldn't resist passing on some Doctors advice.........

two weeks to Spring...the snakes are moving around....they are nice..but not in the garage where I'm working....

 As a matter of interest...this is the pics from the first coffee morning I did...August 5 2012....nice to see it has grown so well...about 11 cars by the looks...

 These two pics from Graham Didlick help to show the difference in three years...many more cars, but lots more people along as well.....you don't need a hot rod, or any car for that matter...just come along for the coffee/catch-up..

Just a few more tonight from my newly aquired HRM's

 Our first 4 aussie dragsters...back in 1960!.....history uncovered in Hot Rod Magazine

 now here is some fancy frame and engine work...

The truth in print from the 60s!!.. I rest my case, you non 32 Ford owning people!!

 woulda-coulda-shoulda!!

 Tommy Ivo....he did it all...hot rods..shows..drags...

 umm...like Pauline Hanson says...."please explain"

 Surfs up...

 Terror of the drag strips..

 Quick...get the plastic out...I need one of those windshield frames!!

 makes you wonder......where is this (or others) hot rods incarnated to now??

 C.A.E....innovators back in the 60s..

 Fords prettiest body style, the 28/29 Fords...can't go much wrong with some steelies, a big smile, and resale red!

 Hmmm...this must be why I liked red A buckets..10 years before mine!!

 Southern California...early 1960s....

 Pikes Peak......not for the faint-hearted....."Don't look down"........#no guardrails!!

 legend...always had the best detailed cars..

 one of the best roadsters ever....don't have to do much but copy this to be a winner!!

prices...why didn't we buy up big.....haha...that's all, folks..