My Latest Project

The Castelli Jet Ride was made around 1955 by F C Castelli Co. (my Grandfather)

I have had the 'Jet Ride' for awhile and finally got around to restoring it. I bought it on eBay over 5 years ago. It was in rough shape but complete except for one bearing that the axle went through.

After taking it apart, which included drilling out the riveted parts that held the front wheel and handlebars, I was able to have a local guy soda blast all parts. He wanted to paint (powder coat) it for me but I gotta do some of the work. The soda blaster also removed the remaining bearing that was shot.

The handlebars and parts that I drilled out were chromed, again a local guy in Mississippi.

All the wheels and tires were in great shape. I cleaned all the tires with paint thinner and after a couple of coats of Armor All they look great. "Castelli" is on the tires.

Paint is International Harvester red, from Tractor Supply.

Hand and foot grips are original and got the same treatment as the tires. They look great.

Assembly required new bearings, axle nuts and pal nuts. All are from either Ace Hardware or Tractor Supply.

The model is my 4 year old grand daughter or the great great grand daughter of F C Castelli. She is just a tad to short to actually ride it. My older grand kids will sure give it a work out.

Occupy Protests

Occupy Oakland wants to shut down the city. If they did who would notice? I also want to know why its a big deal that the guy who got hurt was a vet.

Come on people, it's only Oakland.

ESPN has no balls

Hank Williams Jr lead in "Are you ready for some football" has been pulled from ESPN's MNF broadcast due to some pc BULLSHIT.

He didn't call Obama Hitler and how do we know that he wasn't applying the Hitler analogy to Boehner? And it was stupid for those giys to play golf together.

Energy Costs

Just read a "news" story from USA Today that said that the high energy cost cannot be controlled by the government. I say BULLSHIT. You put a lib in the White House who is on record as saying he wants to destroy the coal industry, who tells the EPA to drag its feet and do anything possible to slow drilling in Alaska and has pushed high cost green energy projects, will cause an increase in energy costs. If that is not the government controlling energy costs I don't know what is.

I do disagree with Michelle Bachman's claim she could get gas to $2.00 a gallon, but with the GOP in charge we will be done with $4 a gallon gas.

Debt Limit

The new worst words you can hear coming out of Washington DC, "over the next ten years".

They are calling for spending cuts of $3 trillion over the next ten years. Wow, sounds like a lot, but..... current spending is running $1.3 trillion over revenues. Take that times 10 years and that's $13 trillion, less the spending cuts of $3 trillion and all we do is increase out debt by $10 trillion over the next ten years. That sounds pretty stupid. Until you hear a number around $13 trillion for spending cuts it doesn't mean shit.

U.S. Postal Service

Just heard a promo from the USPS claiming that the post office does not cost taxpayers any funds other than the postage we pay. I say BULLSHIT!

The USPS has been running a deficit for the past several years and any shortfall is made up with borrowed money. Guess who lends them the money? You and I do! Does anyone think the USPS will ever pay this back? How much, close to $15 BILLION!!!!!!!!!

Professional Politicians

The President of the United States said that the American people do not understand the "debt crisis". We need to leave things like that to "professional politicians". WTF

What pisses me off the most is that the melon headed left does not have a problem with what he said. Basically he said what we, on the right, knew along. One, the 'hope and change' was just a bunch of bullshit and two, Washington DC is full of a bunch of whores.