Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

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Don---I admire the work you do, and as I was setting here reading your post, I wondered if you were going to get your car on the road before the cold weather comes, and rodding stops for the winter. Then I remembered---Your in Florida, aint ya. Lucky guy!!!

Don, I'm glad your back working after your interview with the copywrite police.
Dave keep looking for the home that has a garage attached and I will join you.
Brad

Originally Posted by BradC

Don, I'm glad your back working after your interview with the copywrite police.
Dave keep looking for the home that has a garage attached and I will join you.
Brad

My garage is only 20 paces out the back door, as long as I stay on the sidewalk I usually make it ok!!!! Been thinking about tyeing a rope from door to door though!!!! I was out at my pal Dave T's shop last night, said g'night and went out to get in the car and go home....couldn't find it.....went back in and everyone was laughing their butts off----seems I'd rode out there with Bill!!!!!!

Dave your really worrying me... Are you doing ok lately?
Don, the wheels look great, I can't wait to see them with the rings and hubcaps on them and on the car. They should really pop!

Originally Posted by FMXhellraiser

Dave your really worrying me... Are you doing ok lately?

Just had my IV and monthly checkup last month. My Doc, cruel woman that she is, said I was in great shape for someone my age, IF my age was 92!!!!!! Great shape for me means I haven't had one of them dang mini strokes in over a year!!!!!!

My doctor said I had the body of a 30-year old, but I had to give it back . . . it belonged to his nurse.

Originally Posted by Henry Rifle

My doctor said I had the body of a 30-year old, but I had to give it back . . . it belonged to his nurse.

Bummer Jack.... I remember when doctor's used to give you some candy to take home with you!!!!!

Don't feel bad Henry, I can't go to wall Mart anymore either!

Love the wheels Don, that is a rich grabber blue.

Thanks Brick. We got his tires mounted on them and balanced today......couldn't wait to see the stance when they were put on, so we wheeled it out into the sunshine for the first time. It's starting to look like a car finally!!

We spent the last couple of days wooding in the sides of the body, and are almost done. We decided to do it the way Total Performance suggested, and followed their instruction sheet. Instead of laying up mat and resin under each stringer (like I did on my cars) they suggest using body filler as sort of mortar under each one to bond it to the body. We went one step further and bought a high quality filler with fiberglass strands in it, figuring it would bond better than just filler.

Their wooding kit is really not all that great, just some wood that is no more than firring strips, but Don bought it anyway, so we had to use it. At about $140 for the wooding kit (just the sides, the floor is $ 85 more) it should have been at least NICE wood, but it was pretty bad. However, you never see it once the interior is in place, so we just did it as they instructed.

I have to admit the body is getting pretty rigid now that the wooding is almost done, so it must work. There are a lot of TP cars out there running around, so they must have it figured out pretty well, I guess.

So, here are some pictures I took today. Tomorrow I will finish up the wooding and get ready to flip the body over to glass the underside of the floor. We figure in a week the body can be ready to go to the shop for prep and paint.

Don

OH, that isn't blue overspray on the tires........it's the blue protectant Coker and others use to cover the whitewalls. (didn't want you guys to think I sprayed the wheels with the tires mounted.......lol.)

It's starting to look like a car

Hey! That's my line, and it's copyrighted.

Originally Posted by Henry Rifle

Hey! That's my line, and it's copyrighted.

Oh Man, first I steal that cartoon, now this!!!!!!!!!!! It's a downward spiral from here, next I'll be tearing those little tags off of my pillows !! Al Capone had NOTHING on me.


Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Oh Man, first I steal that cartoon, now this!!!!!!!!!!! It's a downward spiral from here, next I'll be tearing those little tags off of my pillows !! Al Capone had NOTHING on me.


Don

Just don't cut the one off of your mattress or the tag police will come and get ya.

Don, I didn't know how much a rebel you were until I see you using copyrighted material, tearing tags off your pillows and thumbing your nose at the law. Next you will be putting the nike swoosh on the side off you car without promision. Tsk Tsk when will it end LOL
Brad

I wish I had a couple of kids with projects to work on. I've done about all I can to mine - except for upgrading parts that already work. I was a little lost this last 4-day weekend.

Don the tags will be great packing material . But i'll take the peanuts its safer .