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1934 Ford Truck built ground up by Ed Riley of Crosby,Tx. This truck has 350 hp Chevy LS1 Motor and weighs 2500. The truck was built to drive on the street, go to the Car Shows, and just have fun.
Built from reclaimed marble, recovered by reuse action (reuseaction.com) from a lavatory renovation in one of the Buffalo Public Schools. It was a stall partition, so a close inspection shows who loved who, and all sorts of school age nonsense scratched into the marble. We cut it down to size for the customer and left the markings in the marble as part of its charm. The legs, undercarriage and mounting brackets are all made of reclaimed house trim. The marble installed originally in the 1920s, most likely by Italian immigrant craftsmen. In this city the old wood work was done by Poles and Germans, while the stone work was done by the Italians. crafts they brought from their home countries. Without rescuing this material it (and its heritage) would be in the landfill.
Each piece we build is unique and imbued with history...and keeping materials out of landfills.
The Model 235 featured nickel-silver tubing on the first, second, third and main slides, as well as the pinky hook, bracing between the mouthpipe and bell-tail assemblies, and the bushing between the bell-tail and first valve casing.
Note that Buescher used nickel-silver for all slide components, not just the visible outer sleeve portions.
Note here and in the next pic that the main slide is configured to curve down at an angle and enter the third valve case on the left side of the third valve slide. That had become a signature note for Buescher's trumpets; the Aristocrat of 1930 had been configured the same way.
Lamp built in semitransparent material with steel brushed base featuring a small planet picture of night scene from Empire State Building. Energy saving 15 W incandescent bulb for a romantic mood. Silver transparent electric chord with elegant black foot/hand switch. 5 1/2'' x 5 1/2'' x 5 1/2''. Diameter of translucent piture ca. 4''. Uses this image. See all other pictures possible in this model.
This horn is a multi-pitch instrument configured to play in the key of Bb and A.
The main tuning slide has two components. The part of the slide with two straight braces is a separate component from the crook in the slide. The crook will extend away from the section with the two braces.
To tune the horn to A you extended the entire slide assembly, and then extended the crook even farther out.
There is a locking ring on the other side of the horn, where the main slide tubing enters the the tubing sleeve that extends from the bottom of the third valve case.
Once you had adjusted the entire slide to the proper position, you could lock the section with the two braces into place but still adjust the crook's position for fine-tuning.
You also had to adjust the valve slides; they have a mark on the tubing showing about where you needed to extend them.
Note that Buescher applied lacquer over the whole horn, including the nickel-silver portions of the slides.
1934 Ford Truck built ground up by Ed Riley of Crosby,Tx. This truck has 350 hp Chevy LS1 Motor and weighs 2500. The truck was built to drive on the street, go to the Car Shows, and just have fun.
1934 Ford Truck built ground up by Ed Riley of Crosby,Tx. This truck has 350 hp LS1 Chevy Motor and weighs 2500. There is a Custom Built Pro-Street Frame with a 9" Ford Rearend and a Kuggel Front end. The truck was built to drive on the street, go to the Car Shows, and just have fun.
I mean, it looks like it is owned by either an arrogant architect who custom-built it in the 80's, or it's home to a cocaine-addicted lawyer who picked this neighborhood for its total obscurity.
'Aroha Cruise In' in Te Aroha, New Zealand
* Plate: DWT585
* Make: CUSTOMBUILT
* Model: 1933 CHRYSLER
* Year: 2007
* Submodel: PLYMOUTH
* Main colour: Green
* Vehicle type: Passenger Car/Van
* Body style: Saloon
* No of seats: 4
* CC rating: 5,719
* Fuel type: Petrol
* Assembly type: Imported Built-Up
* Country of origin: United States Of America
1934 Ford Truck built ground up by Ed Riley of Crosby,Tx. This truck has 350 hp Chevy LS1 Motor and weighs 2500. The truck was built to drive on the street, go to the Car Shows, and just have fun.
1934 Ford Truck built ground up by Ed Riley of Crosby,Tx. This truck has 350 hp Chevy LS1 Motor and weighs 2500. The truck was built to drive on the street, go to the Car Shows, and just have fun.
In 1967 the Ministry of Transport commissioned a fleet of seven custom-built Bedford vehicles to go around the country promoting British production techniques. Only one bus survives and it took the current owner Ollie Halls five years to retore the mobile cinema to it's pristine condition. The Vintage Mobile Cinema seats 22 in comfort and has a state-of-the-art HD digital projection unit. Above the cab there is ( for the 1960's ) a futuristic-looking clear Perspex dome.
More images from the visit can be seen on my website www.fozimage.com/fozlogs-20110219.htm
This horn was made before Buescher became dedicated to making student level instruments and it still tried to offer up professional level horns. It was very well constructed.
However it didn't sound like the earlier Buescher cornet models I've played.
Most Buescher horns tend to play dark, as did this one. It was really dark, and really loud. But the tone didn't have the brightness or sizzle around the edges like the Model 275 cornet or the dense richness of the earlier Custom Built cornets.
It didn't sound bad, it just didn't have what I liked in Buescher's earlier horns. If you had handed it to me to play blindfolded, I wouldn't have guessed it was a Buescher horn.
* Make: CUSTOMBUILT
* Model: COUNTESS COUNTACH
* Year: 1989
* Main colour: Red
* Vehicle type: Passenger Car/Van
* Body style: Sports Car
* No of seats: 2
* CC rating: 4,200
* Fuel type: Petrol
* Assembly type: NZ Assembled/Built
* Country of origin: New Zealand
The first Custom Built models were engraved with "Aristocrat Custom Built". After the War Buescher seems to have dropped the "Aristocrat" and simply engraved Custom Built on horns. The sales literature of the '40s and '50s also refers to them as "Custom Built" model horns without reference to the Aristocrat models.