Show Us Your Rusty Relics.

[MrNewportCustom]

I like rust - patina, if you will - which explains why I have several books about vintage cars, either abandoned in fields or tucked deep into the back of a salvage yard. It also exlains why I have these rusty relics:

This was given to me by some friends I'd helped move. On the right is the brand.

This was given to me by my sister, who, apparently, had once heard me mention ice tongs. Personally, I don't remember ever talking about ice tongs, but she gave them to me anyway, so I must have said something at sometime or another. (Based on the same reasoning, she once gave me a turkey baster. [huh]) Thanks, Sis. (I have a weird family.) The truck belongs to my brother. He built it starting with a frame and front suspension. The rest was twenty years of collecting parts from fourteen trucks. The rust is vintage Utah.

Show us the rusty, dusty - but especially rusty items that you own, and tell us their stories.


Lee

 

[dhermann1]

Since you forgot, they must have been tongs for the memories. (Ouch!)
I remember the ice man in my home town in the early 50's. He lugged big blocks of ice from his truck for peoples' iceboxes, until the ice house collapsed from the snow in the winter of 1955.

 

[Mike1973]

I like rust

Not nessessarilly a rust fan, but definately a 'Patina Junkie'. I just love things that show the passage of time.

I break into a cold sweat when people ask when I'm going to paint my beat up kombi

 

[duggap]

Best Iron Relic

Sorry, no pictures but my best rusty relic is a couple of civil war canon balls I dug up on a practice artillery range. Darn things had to be disarmed as they were still live. They look great after we ran them through electrolisis.

 

[shoeshineboy]

Although this isnt rusty, it was a great find for my friend. His son bought an old house in town and as they were looking around, they found this tacked to the floor joists.

This is from the late 30 to 40's...we know the dealership and the location in Desloge, so it makes it even more pleasant to acquire. It is in great shape, but my frined won't let me put in on my office wall....:eusa_doh:

 

[Dinerman]

My rusty old panel

supposedly originally off this '20s worcester diner

 

[MrNewportCustom]

Since you forgot, they must have been tongs for the memories. (Ouch!)

lol

I remember the ice man in my home town in the early 50's. He lugged big blocks of ice from his truck for peoples' iceboxes, until the ice house collapsed from the snow in the winter of 1955.

Talk about irony!

Love that sign, Dinerman! And the first thing to hit my mind when I saw that old diner was, "That'd make for a neat little getaway!" Restore it to its former glory and invite the friends over for lunch.


Lee

 

[panamag8or]

Although this isnt rusty, it was a great find for my friend. His son bought an old house in town and as they were looking around, they found this tacked to the floor joists.

This is from the late 30 to 40's...we know the dealership and the location in Desloge, so it makes it even more pleasant to acquire. It is in great shape, but my frined won't let me put in on my office wall....:eusa_doh:

I have one of those from a dealership here. We have been friends with the owners since before I was born, and I came across the old badge in my grandparent's garage. I'll have to take a pic and post it, it has a great deco look.

 

[MikeBravo]

This was given to me by my sister, who, apparently, had once heard me mention ice tongs. Personally, I don't remember ever talking about ice tongs, but she gave them to me anyway, so I must have said something at sometime or another. (Based on the same reasoning, she once gave me a turkey baster. [huh]) Thanks, Sis. (I have a weird family.) The truck belongs to my brother. He built it starting with a frame and front suspension. The rest was twenty years of collecting parts from fourteen trucks. The rust is vintage Utah.


Lee

I have to admire that level of commitment to a task. Obviously a labour of love. Tell your brother he has earned the respect of a stranger from across the seas (the Pacific Ocean to be exact).