Back to Route 66 and Winslow

Seligman!

We scored again at Snow-Cap! Last summer's rooftop show with John Delgadillo's band was followed up with a performance by Angel's band. Seligman is one of the best stops on Route 66, the Delgadillo family makes sure everyone has a good time. Angel is the person credited with organizing the movement to save Route 66. He may also be the inventer of fun. Here's a link. Angel Delgadillo then go read all the Wikipedia stuff and visit him, you'll be happy you did!

They're playing when the bongo player starts yelling "Brian, your tacos are ready!"

Joe and Phil

Angel and John

Couple random shots

Spare bricks

Hummer and belly tank in their new home

Palace Fixtures

We're painting, staining and prepping for tile and flooring. We finally plugged the old Coke Machine in and it worked!

It lives!

Red Tub

Less red

1st coat of Gold

Claws

British Visitors

A wedding Party from England stopped in and left bonafied Hillbillies! They mistook us for a proper motorcycle shop and asked if we could help with a packing problem. (Their bags were wider than the racks and were hanging kind of scary). With a Makita, some scrap wood and a few drywall screws we got them back on the road without any permanent modifications or immediate injuries.

Enjoy your trip and come visit again!

 A couple sunsets

Route 66 to our right

The alley on our left

Original post jacked by Yamaha!

Derrick at CW Moss has been busy fixing up the his building and recently added a tenant. We were walking to dinner around sunset the other night and snapped this through the corner window.

Breaking News!!

Jim just found this at the Dixon Swap meet and I bought it while writing this post on my iPhone at the car wash. Technology!

Unproductive Weekend!!

Not Much Work Here

We spent this weekend visiting with friends and running dead-end errands. I stopped working on Baby Monday when I ran out of parts and discovered Lori left with the truck keys in her pocket. I used the time to play around with my camera.

Old stuff

Baby seems pretty excited about her new belly tank.

Ram-Cam

The G/S is about tired of this garage

Winslow Stuff

I was looking at some old files and ran across some early sketches of Motor Palace ideas.

A couple ideas for the Carriage House facade...doing something different now.

Early logo idea

First logo idea

Dickies Selvedge Denim Jeans and Jeep obsession.

Dickies 1922 Heritage Jeans

We got our hands on some Dickies jeans from their Heritage collection. These jeans are made at the Dickies work shop in New Braunfels Texas of Cone Mills White Oak denim. The White Oak plant in North Carolina was built by Cone Mills in 1905 and they weave selvage denim on narrow looms from the 1940's.
We have a small supply of the carpenter and heavy duty button fly straight leg five pocket styles in limited sizes. These are selling well by word of mouth and we aren't going to put them on our web store until they become more readily available. If you're interested in them give us a call or email 66@66MotorPalace.com and we can arrange a fitting and send you some pictures. International friends please accept our apology, we are unable to ship this product outside the USA.

Jeans

Chore Coat

Baby

Except when we go to Winslow later this month we are devoting our spare time (besides riding) to getting the Jeep dialed in. 47-year-old vehicles with 17,500 miles that've been putting around ranches have unique problems. Not much is worn or broken but lots of things are stuck, hard, or cracked. 

The light switch was frozen solid. I had to beat it with a hammer to free it. After a good cleaning and lube it works perfect!

Lights

Inside the turn signal switch. it was frozen too. There were dead spiders. That's a wasps nest in the upper left.

Had to cover the 68 with the new 2014.

Baby got a kitty.

Felix getting his picture taken for Instagram. #66MotorPalace

Weekend 3

We tuned the motor (it runs great), replaced the defroster duct, and vacuum lines. We're chasing brake parts, and still don't have brake lights. I won't bore you with details. Lori pulled the dead radio and speaker out to make it easier to work under the dash.

We got new work lights. Matco has a few models made in USA.

Chevrolet AM radio.

Check book

Turn screws

We've started on the brakes, Jeff at Wheels-n-Motion is helping us find some appropriate tires, and we'll get seats to the upholstery shop pretty soon. Next up will be new belts, hoses, fuel lines and a few obvious leaks. Then we'll take it out and see what falls off!

Baby Pictures!!!

Can-Am Update

In the late '70s Can Am produced a military bike based on the TNT. In addition to being green and having a center stand it had an oversized steel tank. The Cowboy tracked one down and convinced the seller to put it in a suitcase and bring it over from England (he was coming here anyway).

So now the Kid's busy stripping layers of paint between rides.

It's ok, they're in Arizona...besides my Dad said it's safe. They used the same stripper in Viet Nam.

Nice bike, too bad they spilled paint stripper on that Saguaro!

Baby's Home

The Jeep arrived late Friday night and I had to work Saturday but we got to play with it all day Sunday. It starts runs and drives pretty well and it's in good overall condition. It's had an easy life on the ranch and basic maintenance has been kept up. Paint's thin and the hood was repainted in the past. The seats were covered but original. The vinyl is stiff and has cracks. Lori put some vinyl dressing on them and the color is great. The coil wire is not so good and the choke was stuck on and the mixture screw was all the way in it's not now).

So far we've sorted out the carburetor, washed, color sanded and waxed it. We'll do a brake job, replace the exhaust, all hoses, fuel lines, vacuum lines for heater control and windshield wipers, replace the tires and reupholster the seats.

We didn't want to load up everybody's Facebook and Instagram feeds so we posted a ton of pictures here.

Right valve cover of the Mighty Dauntless! (Lori's Picture)

With Fatboy  (Lori's Picture)

Rodders Row

66 Motor Palace Orange

Bondorella and Baby

Old Town Orange

Ready to unload with Brian Jr. (Lori's Picture)

About the time I figured out the choke was stuck. (Lori's Picture)

Nice fonts! (Lori's Picture)

Lubing the chassis and drive line. It didn't need much. (Lori's Picture)

Really old tires with lots of tread. (Lori's Picture)

Tailgate graphic

Getting bluer.

Amazingly it doesn't leak. the fuel filter mounting technique is on the list.

The Beginning and End of the Day

Motivating the Chile plants with home made tortillas and chorizo at breakfast.

Dinner at Panchos