The project for the day was installing a hitch on the back of the Hub Bus.  There are 4 bolts that hold the bumper on the back end of a 1976 VW bus.  As luck would have it, one of those bolts had rusted inself into place.  For some reason, the engineers had spot welded the nuts into an enclosed box that has no access other than a tiny little hole in the side.

I purchased a custom made hitch from a guy named Jamie in Canada who welded them together when people ordered them.

After cutting the old bolt and drilling a hole in the bottom of one of those boxes, I was able to get the old welded nut out and placed a piece of flat bar that I tapped to 10 x 1..5  so that I could thread into it.

For the final project of the day, I needed to make a new locking pin to hold the rack in.  I pulled out the old lathe for this one and had a good time machining a piece of steal that I had found on the side of the road into a piece that would fit into the locking system that we had on our old Hollywood rack.