Pulled a 20-hour day yesterday followed by 10 hours of sleep, therefore YFE was somewhat lucid when he pulled out this AM to check in with daughter No. 2 and her family down in Wilsonville.   Stopped at a mini-mart to get the morning Diet Pepsi, looked across the street (OR 204/212) and saw a business named “Get Bent” (I’m not making this up), complete with several old Buicks parked out front.

Turns out the company is the only mandrel bending facility in greater Portland, specializing in custom exhaust systems for all types of cars with emphasis on street rods.  Owner Steve gave me the quick grand tour (hmmm…this would be the perfect place to get an exhaust system for the TR8, once I put headers on the engine).   The projects included the car seen above: a somewhat kit-bashed 1929 Ford Model A which is undergoing conversion to a hearse.  The power plant is a 502ci Buick (!).

Good day overall with the grandkids, the search for LBCs continues.