Hello and welcome!

Greetings all.
I'm Banjo, and I'll be your host for this journey through long forgotten paths of mechanized history.
Stray Cat Vintage and Custom  is the name I gave my shop in the back yard. As of right now it is not a commercial business. All the work I do is personal or for my friends.if things develop in the future I may look into becoming a business, but for now we're just having fun.
Here's how it all began. Right out of high school  I got a degree in auto mechanics/ auto body, and for 15 years I worked as a professional auto technician at both independant shops, restoration shops and dealerships. I am an ASE certified Master Technician and Advanced level specialist. I was also a Toyota Master Diagnostic Tecnician. For the last two years I have been working for a company that builds custom industrial automation, or to put it simply, Robots!
Working at my current job, I have access to many fabrication tools, and this had really got me interested  in trying some very ambitious projects at Stray Cat.
Up till now I have done restorations on cars, and many other antique mechanical pieces. Including lawnmowers, garden tractors, old engines, and I'm working on a 1930s washing machine.

 The current shop buggy is a 1970 VW type 3 fastback named "Abby Normal"
I love anything old and mechanized. it doesn't have to be fast or powerful, it just has to be cool. The older the better, the more obscure, the better. and this has brought me to the current planned projects here at the shop.
First off is turning a pre-war western flyer boys bike into a "tribute" to an early motorcycle. It won't be strictly following any original design, as I have some ideas to make it unique, but it will be practice for an even more ambitious project to build a motorcycle that will involve casting engine parts from aluminum,and possibly iron.
So I've started this blog to cronicle the going-ons of my backyard shop, and maybe inspire others to get out and try something new. I hope to keep you interested with all the different things going on here. It will be a bit scattered, I'm sure, but all related to what's up at Stray cat Vintage and Custom.
Thanks!