Hello I'm Oliver in Sonoma county California

[pato1]

Originally Posted by olivermarks

I have been restoring vehicles for the last 25 years as a hobby when time permitted, and now have more time but as always not enough money. I am originally English (I grew up in Coventry, the motor city) and moved to California in '91.

My interest in vehicles ends around the time 16 gauge steel pressings were no longer used, and my main focus and experience is Jaguars from mid sixties to mid 90's, International Harvester and various other mostly cars, although I do have a '57 IH Metro and a 50's Divco milk truck.

I like to do everything myself and have quite a few metal working tools including an English wheel, planishing hammer, motorized bead roller and shrinker stretcher adult activity center I built myself and quite an assortment of metal bashing tools I've collected over the years.

I'm also considering building a replica of a 1940's merchandiser like these https://www.servicemerchandisers.com/
and I've fabricated various other metal devices such as an electric TV lift.

Looking forward to shared knowledge and hopefully contributing!

hey there-am in sebastopol and have a planishing hammer that maybe we should keep at your place?!--pat

[olivermarks]

Hi Pat -I have all my metal working gear up in Ukiah where it's cheaper. I've got a planishing hammer already, but only a cheapy one