Well, it’s that time of year again… time to have a look at many manifestations of love, blood, sweat, and stress at this years Detroit Autorama.  I enjoy seeing the finished products, but I think I like the builds better.  This thread has some build pictures of Sinuous, a Dave Tucci – built ’35 Ford that was a Great 8 car last year.  Another great behind-the-scenes look at a Ridler car is JF Launier’s online TV show.

If you’re going to be in Detroit this weekend, please say hi if you see me.  I’ll have a Welder Series T shirt on.

We’ll be taking some time off over Christmas/ New Years to spend with family…er… other family than the ones who work here.

Here are the dates passed down from head office:

Open Dec 24th till noon

Open dec 29 & 30

Open Dec 31 till noon

Back to regular hours Jan 4

Hope you’re able to spend some time relaxing and enjoying yourselves.
Merry Christmas!

There are some people on these internet message boards that have just about a universal command for respect.  If you’re a member of the HAMB, you would recognize the tag C9… unfortunately Jay passed away recently.

I won’t take too much time here, because I didn’t know him personally, but I did enjoy reading what he wrote.  C9 was more than just a tech post kind of guy – he was an actual writer.  Here are links to some of his hot rod related stories.  I highly recommend taking some time to read them.

The Red Roadster, Part 1
The Red Roadster, Part 2
Doofus & Whiny
One Black and Foggy Night

Early Ford hubcaps on slot mags tech post

There are more Doofus & Whiny stories… just hop on the HAMB and have a look.  Also, please feel free to post a link to parts 3 and four of the Red Roadster.

Like I said in the thread announcing his death, whenever I saw his name and this picture, the scroll bar would stop and I would read whatever he had to say.

I would like to quickly mention that our web store is secure… again.

If you encountered the dreaded “This site is not secure” page when you tried to buy something from us within the past few weeks, we’re very sorry for the inconvenience.  Can I explain?
Thanks.  Our security certificate has been automatically updating every year for five years.  For some reason, this year, the company that provides our SSL certificate took 43 days to do what should have been done in less than one day.  This has caused us some grief, to put it extremely lightly.

If you came across the “unsecure site” page, let me assure you that it has been made secure.  An easy way to tell if a site is secure is by the address bar – it will turn green as you enter the login portion of a website.  Green means it’s safe to go ahead.

Thanks very much for your patience through this trial.  If you have any questions about our products or our internet practices, please let me know.

Every customer is different.  You’re different from the next customer.  There is no formula, no equation that will work with all of you.  It takes a different approach to everyone to determine how best to serve anyone.  Some people need videos, some people need descriptions.  Some people need us to weld it together.  Our approach has been, and will always be, to serve each of you where you are and to treat you the same way we would like to be treated.

It’s been just over four years since we officially opened the doors to Welder Series, and we’ve just had our best year so far.  I say four years, but the product line has been percolating for over 30.  Paul Horton began developing and building many of the parts we still manufacture when I wasn’t yet a twinkle in Paul’s wife’s eye.    Thanks very much for your business and support over the years.

The future looks great, but there are some things that we won’t be changing.  When you buy parts from Welder Series, that’s what you get.  Parts.  We don’t use fancy boxes, custom printed packing tape, or glossy catalogs.  Our reported damaged box claims are quite less than half a percent of parcels shipped.  Our ~60 page catalog will continue to be printed in-house so you get an up-to-date copy.  Actually, I should have said copies… we send three catalogs with every order (most people request more than one when they order, so they can give one or two to friends) – here’s a true story: a customer of ours is a police officer, and had his daily driver broken into.  The thief stole the standard items – cash, camera, wallet, Welder Series catalog.  I’m not making this up – we had to send him another catalog because his had been stolen!  Anyway, we try our best to keep expenses down because we know that will help you keep your expenses down.

Thanks again
Paul, Dorothy, and DW Horton (yes, that’s all of us)
Welder Series Inc.