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It's been a while since I popped in on this one. Work finally blocked this site so I can't reply there any more and I've definitely missed a lot but have now caught up. Great save up front there Richard!

Thanks Rich! I dunno if I could pull a neat spring off with a wrap or not yet but one of these days I may give it a whirl.

Thanks Ed!! I guess I got lucky with breaking the last one....I did use a paper towel though. lol

LOL!!! Thanks Ed!!

It's update time again fellas! I've put it off for a few days in order to get most of the way through the throttle linkage process. Here is everything but the return spring and throwing a little Tamiya Smoke on the PE linkage parts to give 'em that true metal look. The big picture: and a little closer at a couple of different angles: What to use for the return spring? I was sittin' around thinkin' of what was best to use for one of those on my last build. I've seen folks wind their own and I just don't care for the look. 1.) the coils are not uniform most of the time and 2.) I kept thinking that there's gotta be another way. I came up with the perfect solution for me. Most of you have quick access to one of these: A 1:1 scale turn signal bulb. Just break the bulb glass: pull the element out: and you've got yourself a return spring............

Man have I ever been outta tha loop on this one!!! Your attention to detail is mind blowing JC!!!! Great work dude! Great work!

It's really great to see you still pluggin' away at this one Steve. Hang in there man! We're all rootin' for you!!!!

Thanks Mike and Craig. So far things at home are doing okay. She has the good and bad days that are typical with recovery of this sort from what I understand. She is getting bored with being at home all the time in between her therapy visits. At this point I'm really glad I only have 4 day work weeks so I can be with her and take her here and there to get her out of the house. Her sister stays with her through the week which is a blessing but she doesn't do a whole lot. lol

Thanks Gator! Yeah she has her good and bad days throughout the recovery.process. She's hanging in there good so far though.

Great idea. I'll be watching.

Thanks Randy! She's doing well so far.

I was hoping to be more along than what I am here but this part took alot of work. First off I added a wiring harness that I still have to do some work on regarding a couple of circuit breakouts from the main harness. I took a piece of telephone wire and stripped the end off of it and used coil winding wire from a GM fuel pump relay to wind around the phone wire to replicate the plastic black conduit that you see on alot of more modern engines. Then I put a terminal end on the alternator cable with a nut glued onto that. After that I started on the throttle linkage by building the bracket and pivot lever (which was four pieces when you count the two PE retaining bolt heads that I glued onto it going into the intake manifold) and got that glued in. I'm going to put a hold on the fine detail for the time being and build up the headers, paint them and glue those into place so I don't have to handle the engine very much when installing the rest of the throttle linkage and fuel delivery pieces. Progress pics: I'll be using braided fuel line like this: and anodized fittings like this (I've already got these on order BTW ) to replicate the fuel delivery system:

Well thank you for the resource there Mark! Turns out that the folks that offer the body also offer a promo style chassis to go with it as I found out. Just gotta save a little $$ to obtain those items. I've already got the cowl induction scoop located. What's funny is that before I saw all this I had bought this months Super Chevy magazine which had this on the cover: Coincidence? I think NOT!

Progress on this jewel?

Thank you so much everyone. So far.....so good. We're doing a follow up visit with the doctor in San Antonio on Wednesday. You guys are awesome!

I don't think those last two pics made it through. Can you try again? Stay with it Eric! The point is to finish. Good going so far buddy!

LOL!!! I about busted out laughin' when I first saw it Ed! Gino: I dunno . We'll see. I've got an email sent to that fella.

Well the good word is that my wife is home with us now! She now starts the next chapter in her recovery as we set up her therapy here in Corpus and begin the doctor visits that will monitor her progress using routine CT scans to ensure everything is still ok. I'd like to thank everyone who has followed along with that progress and has offered their support and prayers for her well being and recovery. We're just taking it one day at a shot here and rolling with the punches but all is very well so far. She walks with no assistance and the casual onlooker wouldn't know she ever had anything happen save for an eye patch for the time being. She'll have double vision for a while but as I understand it that's par for the course and should get better over time.

Well the good word is that my wife is home with us now! She now starts the next chapter in her recovery as we set up her therapy here in Corpus and begin the doctor visits that will monitor her progress using routine CT scans to ensure everything is still ok. I'd like to thank everyone who has followed along with that progress and has offered their support and prayers for her well being and recovery. We're just taking it one day at a shot here and rolling with the punches but all is very well so far. She walks with no assistance and the casual onlooker wouldn't know she ever had anything happen save for an eye patch for the time being. She'll have double vision for a while but as I understand it that's par for the course and should get better over time. I will add a bit of humor to the equation here as my son and I were at Walmart in SA just yesterday morning grabbing a bite to eat at McDonalds inside. As we came back out to the car to go back to the hospital I spotted inspiration for my next build right there in the parking lot. It was a daily driver with a baby seat in the back seat. I couldn't help but to start laughing and thinking that I just had to make this one come to life in model form. I've spotted a body from Perry's resins so far but don't know what kit to pattern it after. Here's the link to the body. http://www.perrysresin.com/catalog/pages/gm_malibuwagon.htm Does anybody know what kit that's patterned after? The perfect "grocery getter":

Thanks Gino, Dan and Dan. Up in San Antonio visiting with my wife in the hospital this weekend. Hope to hit the bench soon again.

I've seen that camo pattern before in my 109 Group Build I ran last year over at FSM. That is totally knarly right there! I can't imagine trying to pull that one off!!!! I like that 234 as well. Nice worn effect on that one!!!!

You got a pic of it?

Thanks Sam, Rich and Carl! Well I was able to do a bit more work on this today. I've got the pulleys & belt as well as the alternator/ bracket and carburetors installed. Slowly but surely..................

Terrific display of skill Steve.

Thanks Dave , Dan and Greg! Greg: It took me a looooooooong time to get anywhere decent with a camera. lol