Xmas Gifts that I like! [Archive]

GregWeld

12-25-2009, 08:14 PM

Alex's girl friend had some artwork done of the Nomad... The artist
has a website showing the steps he did to do the work. His normal work is VW's and he admits that he had fun drawing this one up. To me - this type of gift is the best type - they aren't that expensive - but shows planning and thought about the "receiver". Alex got me a carbon fiber toilet seat... Not sure Gwen will like that - so it might be "shed art"... :rofl:

http://www.lemorris.com/site/?p=331
http://dhphut.com/images/anomad_21.jpg

NOT A TA

12-25-2009, 08:55 PM

That came out really nice Greg!

GregWeld

12-25-2009, 09:02 PM

Thanks John --- Yeah - - I was completely blown away that she would have gone to the "effort" and planning something like this takes... you can't just start a project like this on Xmas Eve - which is usually when I'm out shopping!! LOL

Vegas69

12-25-2009, 10:00 PM

That's cool man. She's thoughtful or kissing some major ass here. :thumbsup:

GregWeld

12-26-2009, 07:02 AM

I didn't even have to bend over!!

:rofl:

awr68

12-26-2009, 09:52 AM

Very cool Greg! She defiantly knows how much you like these things called 'The American Automobile'!!

She's a keeper!! :thumbsup:

How about a shot of Alex's present....not in use of course! :lol:
He was very excited and told Jen about it during SEMA week and I've been dying to see it!

GregWeld

12-26-2009, 01:25 PM

Okay -- Then I have to add my other favorite gift from my buddy John... I had mentioned once that I'd like to buy an old gas pump for the front of the shed - but that the only ones around are either beautifully restored - or complete crap! So he finds a guy that restores them --- and we do a little shop tour... Since my second ever job was at a Mobil gas station - I've always had a little affinity for that brand... and collect stuff from time to time... So the guy says -- well I have an old Mobil pump... and guess who has it now? This is JOHN just after we got her unloaded. I'm going to put it outside between the doors and put an air hose reel in the bottom...

http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/ad33/gregweld/Shop%20Pix/IMG_1541.jpg

tones2SS

12-26-2009, 01:28 PM

Very cool drawing and old school Mobil pump!:thumbsup:

GregWeld

12-26-2009, 01:42 PM

Okay Anthony -- here's the 2 lb 6 oz REAL carbon fiber toilet seat.... Can't tell you how ridiculous I think this is - but it will be fun down in the shed!

http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/ad33/gregweld/Shop%20Pix/DSC_7642.jpg

awr68

12-26-2009, 01:55 PM

That's awesome! Nice gas pump too!!

radrambler

12-26-2009, 03:46 PM

GregWeld

12-26-2009, 04:12 PM

They said this seat would make you go faster.... Apparently it's working for TOM!!....... :rofl:

GregWeld

12-26-2009, 04:14 PM

BTW -- This seat (a standard) will not fit a single toilet in our house... so it's gotta go (pun intended) on the shop wall. :mad:

awr68

12-26-2009, 05:51 PM

BTW -- This seat (a standard) will not fit a single toilet in our house... so it's gotta go (pun intended) on the shop wall. :mad:

You have my address....looks like it will fit mine!! :D

70rs

12-26-2009, 06:45 PM

Nice gifts Greg! The car art is really cool, but so is the gas pump and seat. That pump will go perfect in front of the shed!:thumbsup:

GregWeld

12-26-2009, 06:48 PM

Nice gifts Greg! The car art is really cool, but so is the gas pump and seat. That pump will go perfect in front of the shed!:thumbsup:

Yeah I was jazzed --- that stuff way beat the 6 shirts that my wife bought me - that were all just variations of the same thing but in different colors and manufacturers... 4 of them have been returned already!

My "friends" know what to get a dumbazzzz gearhead like me!! :rofl:

The toilet seat is a COMPLETE waste (get it) but has an anti cell phone attachment... it looks like a lid or something... :bow: :wow:

70rs

12-26-2009, 06:51 PM

but has an anti cell phone attachment... it looks like a lid or something... :bow: :wow:

:rofl: :rofl: Too funny!!

awr68

12-26-2009, 06:55 PM

.........but has an anti cell phone attachment... it looks like a lid or something... :bow: :wow:

Oh Snap!! :lol:

tones2SS

12-27-2009, 01:33 PM

They said this seat would make you go faster.... Apparently it's working for TOM!!....... :rofl:

If not faster, maybe more lightweight?!?! lol:rofl: :thumbsup:

G/A-body

12-27-2009, 07:14 PM

Gotta love the cell phone reference. :thumbsup:

70rs

12-27-2009, 08:03 PM

Gotta love the cell phone reference. :thumbsup:

Yup! I have been reassured that the phone in the toilet will not be easy for me to forget. :lol:

camaro2nv

12-28-2009, 01:22 PM

Very cool:thumbsup:

DFRESH

12-28-2009, 02:48 PM

Only you---

GregWeld

12-28-2009, 03:19 PM

I know... Right!

Who shows up at your house with a gas pump.... NOBODY... but here comes John...

When I lived in NYC - we used to have a saying... "them that has... gets" and you know - it's kinda true. I would never go buy one of these for myself! Or a CF toilet seat either (had to make a mount for it today out in the shed)...
:lol: Amazing.

nvr2fst

12-28-2009, 08:46 PM

Greg you know better, the elongated seats for the house not the standard Dah Id take it back and replace all the toilets.
Ad says "stylish shi* for only 1K"
http://4wheels4life.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/carbon-fiber-at-home/

GregWeld

12-28-2009, 08:52 PM

OMG!!

That is too funny!

So today I actually made a 'mount' for the seat and hung it out in the shed with my Rat Fink painted version...

waynieZ

12-29-2009, 04:09 PM

I just found this thread, you got some nice gifts there. I love the art work!

ccracin

12-29-2009, 05:09 PM

Great gifts Greg. I'm typing this message on one of mine. My Dad got me a new laptop. He said he needed me to be able to research stuff for the truck faster! :lol: I bought him tools. A set of aluminum AN wrenches, a set of fittings to pressure test AN hoses, and a Rigid 37deg. flaring tool for stainless tubing. It was a truck project themed Christmas. Oh and I got a new solar powered auto darkening welding helmet. Guess I should learn to weld!:lol: Gotta love this hobby. :cheers:

GregWeld

12-29-2009, 05:22 PM

Waynie --- YEAH! Crazy Xmas stuff! I usually get socks and handkerchiefs... and the Visa bill...

Chad -- Great gifts for you - and you gave out some nice ones too! I have that 37 Degree flaring tool - the one with the tapered rollers -- it's a spendy little dude... And BTW -- Rigid also makes a special SS tubing cutter... got that too - and it works 4 X's better than the standard versions... which I used to chip the wheels on all the time... If you're going to do much SS tubing - look for one.

:lateral: :cheers: :woot:

70rs

12-29-2009, 05:23 PM

To go with the seat.....

From the ad above. This gives new meaning to "speed reading":rofl:
We need a picture of it hangin' in the shed Greg.

66LS7

12-29-2009, 06:31 PM

To go with the seat.....

From the ad above. This gives new meaning to "speed reading":rofl:
We need a picture of it hangin' in the shed Greg.

Just when I thought it couldn't get any better than a carbon fiber toilet seat!:rofl:

Randy(D&Z Customs LLC.)
[email protected]
1-262-347-9741

70rs

12-29-2009, 06:37 PM

Now all we need are carbon fiber plumbing lines(drains) and the entire system will be ready for the superbowl party! :rofl:

nvr2fst

12-29-2009, 08:50 PM

I will post pictures as soon as I get them of the CF TP holder, towel ring and I believe a soap dish my Plumbing contractor has in his lodge. Ill ask him about the lines, I cant see why you wouldn't be able to paint Pex tube lines black.
I know I've seen a gear shift lever for the flush lever somewhere.
Greg, You need to get all this in by next Christmas. Ill contribute the Charmin.

GregWeld

12-29-2009, 10:14 PM

Maybe a roll of fiberglass roving!!

Garage Dog 65

12-31-2009, 01:53 PM

Got me a new DeWalt nail gun. I can sit in my lawn chair with a cold one and build a fence from about 100 yards .... :yes:

Jim

GregWeld

12-31-2009, 02:03 PM

Nice!!

Go to the Off Topic forum here - and look for "best hand gun for home protection" thread --- I posted up a nice video link there yesterday - you'll love it!

tones2SS

12-31-2009, 03:57 PM

Got me a new DeWalt nail gun. I can sit in my lawn chair with a cold one and build a fence from about 100 yards .... :yes:

Jim

lollll....
Very cool Jim!:cheers:

70rs

12-31-2009, 05:52 PM

Got me a new DeWalt nail gun. I can sit in my lawn chair with a cold one and build a fence from about 100 yards .... :yes:

Jim

What the he**?? Too cool! Deer hunt, target shoot and build a deck all at the same time!!:thumbsup:

nvr2fst

12-31-2009, 06:13 PM

Got me a new DeWalt nail gun. I can sit in my lawn chair with a cold one and build a fence from about 100 yards .... :yes:

Jim

Awesome, I didnt know Dewalt had something like that and I deal with there reps now and then. I have to get one of these, at least to keep the personal on the job sites in line, way cool.

70rs

12-31-2009, 09:56 PM

Awesome, I didnt know Dewalt had something like that and I deal with there reps now and then. I have to get one of these, at least to keep the personal on the job sites in line, way cool.

That is the EXACT tool to use to keep framers in check on job sites!!:rofl:

nvr2fst

01-02-2010, 09:40 AM

That is the EXACT tool to use to keep framers in check on job sites!!:rofl:

Yea and its way better than the old days of spiking the lunch boxes up high in the rafters or picking up the apprentice by his bibs and nailing him to the stud wall.

GregWeld

01-02-2010, 10:22 AM

I'm really surprised there aren't more "after Xmas" posts to this thread... I figured there'd be all kinds of kool tools - or kool car parts etc posted up... But what the heck do I know.

fesler

01-02-2010, 01:38 PM

cool pump, and what a gift on the art work.

GregWeld

01-02-2010, 01:47 PM

Thanks Chris!

I didn't want a restored pump... as I want to put this outside my "shed" between the big doors... so why "waste" a nice one on that.. and I had mentioned this to John a couple of times when we had seen the restored versions.... yet then again - some of the ones needing restoration shown
at the swap meets are little more than junk.. this one is just right!

The artwork is just kool too.. thanks. Much better Xmas stuff than ties and socks!!

70rs

01-02-2010, 01:47 PM

I got some shoes.....my kid got a Wii from his grandparents. He is almost 6. They got him a X BOX 360 last year.....against my wishes.....:_paranoid

GregWeld

01-02-2010, 02:07 PM

I got some shoes.....my kid got a Wii from his grandparents. He is almost 6. They got him a X BOX 360 last year.....against my wishes.....:_paranoid

If you needed some shoes - then it's a great gift! Have you walked a mile in them yet?? :rofl:

Games and stuff for the kids now days I H A T E... we used to actually play OUTSIDE! A ball... a stick... a can (kick the can)... whatever we could find. But times have changed. Can't send 'em outside anymore because the level 3 sex offender lives across the street - and he has all the "rights"!

70rs

01-02-2010, 02:22 PM

If you needed some shoes - then it's a great gift! Have you walked a mile in them yet?? :rofl:

Games and stuff for the kids now days I H A T E... we used to actually play OUTSIDE! A ball... a stick... a can (kick the can)... whatever we could find. But times have changed. Can't send 'em outside anymore because the level 3 sex offender lives across the street - and he has all the "rights"!

Yep, I needed them and they are great. Walked a couple so far. And I agree about the games. Not my choice. I made my opinion VERY clear and it was ignored. But it is my house and I can controll the use at least.:thumbsup:

The best gift was being able to have Christmas with my son and watching him open stuff. The look on his face was priceless. it's not about the gifts to me, there is a lot of other things to be thankfull for.

GregWeld

01-02-2010, 02:28 PM

70rs

01-02-2010, 03:04 PM

My brother in law (also named Eric) - and best friend of 40+ years - was told SPECIFICALLY -- NO GUNS (for Alex who was 10 at the time).... so he shows up with a bow and arrows... not fake ones either!

I'll kill him one day!

I had a lot of fun shooting that thing with him.

Leave it to family huh? :lol:

I always liked giving my nieces and nephews really loud noise maker toys. Just to get back at my brother and sister for driving me nuts when we were kids. I was the last of the three of us to have kids and they never forgot me giving those toys. Now it is coming back tenfold! :rofl: I should have thought a little further down the road back then!

comp-spec

01-03-2010, 07:33 AM

My daughters got me 2 tickets to the Daytona 500 :hail:

BBC71Nova

01-03-2010, 08:07 AM

GregWeld

01-03-2010, 08:11 AM

My daughters got me 2 tickets to the Daytona 500 :hail:

Nice Pete! Your daughters got you that? Wow! You've obviously raised them right! :thumbsup:

GregWeld

01-03-2010, 08:18 AM

I've been wanting a porta-band to help me get my old cage out of the car. I'd been eying the deep cut Milwaukee for a while but they are large and might be hard to get into tight spots. Procrastination paid off again and the wife picked me up this new compact Milwaukee porta-band for Christmas. It is a good bit smaller, half the weight and 2/3 the price :) . I tried it out last night and it worked great. So much more controllable than the sawzall.

Oh, and I ordered myself a new custom Ricks stainless fuel tank for the Nova :) . Nothing else cool besides some photography stuff.

http://www.milwaukeetool.com/CatalogItem/Images/41800_6242-6-lg.jpg

John

SWEET!! Now I'm going to have to go check them out.... Looks like a nice saw - and I've never seen a tool I didn't like! LOL

Love the statement about "nothing else cool..." Yeah Right! Like a new fuel tank and photography stuff isn't cool!... I bought both my college age kids new Nikon D5000's -- they haven't put them down since Xmas day... Alex even took his girlfriend to the zoo just so he could get some shots with the 55/200 that came in the kit...:rolleyes: