Archive for February 2024
Don’t Waste Your Money On “Buyer Beware” Knock Offs
The restoration of historic vintage cars, trucks, old gas pumps, vending machines, historic signs and much more commemorating America’s industrial revolution of the 20th century, has become an enormous, multi-billion dollar market in the 21st century. It is a hobby with great returns to investors/collectors both young and old that enjoy collecting worldwide. Of course,…
Read MoreInside Our World Class Restoration Shop: H.J. Nick’s Historic Journal
Our On-Site, World Class Restoration Shop is unique in that we are, as a flagship business, a fine art hand crafted door, furniture, and hand forged hardware manufacturer. This means that by extension, our Retro-Shop has direct access to, as needed, to be able to re-manufacture any item in the same hand and materials of…
Read MoreA Student Of Everything: H.J. Nick’s Historic Journal
I was just 16-years-old, driving a garbage truck route, with my “Swamper”. (This was a big muscled up dude the picked up the 55 gallon drums and dumped them into the front bucket of the truck. At this point, we would both sort through, looking out for anything fixable or reusable among the so-called “junk”.…
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