89AKurt

I was thinking of starting my own thread, so I don't hijack this one. 🤔 Would it be too much to call it 'Once Upon A Time - Kurt's Fakerri'? I'm someone who has only one project at a time going, I've tried several at a time and, meh. For now, while I'm waiting on scheduling, having fun letting my OCD take over here: The head needs to be separate, like the sign. Faked it with a chrome necktie. While looking into improving the fuel tank straps, I discovered an exhaust mount had broken, who knows when. I just got a metal circular saw at the auto club swap meet, so I cut some bed frame and drilled holes, wish everything was this easy. 😆

fast when stepping

like these posts 😜

Thank you for posting that picture! I was told about how much fun it is to work on this particular part of these cars, so I shall keep an ear open. Have the front A-arm bushings replacement scheduled, then on and on. I polished the body, needs more work. Since Prescott is known as having the World's Oldest Rodeo, had to do this.

not sitting well

Just what I wanted, I would be dangerous with the real thing. I installed the gap plates (splash pan on a '48 Chevy pickup) made with left-over sign. The existing hole (cut off) dictated the direction of the arrow. Can't really see unless you are looking down. There is an odd tiny detail, let's see who spots it. Polished/waxed the whole body yesterday.

with Jack boxed

What is with me wanting to use up every bit of something, like how big is the plastic scrap pile that I harvest from when scratch-building models? I got road signs to make the trunk/boot floor, have some left over that will fill up the giant gap in front of the headlights. Mockup cardboard in the driver side, just a piece big enough to visualize in the other side. This sort of modification would not take much to reverse, if I was ever to properly blow lots of money on a restoration SEMA car (ain't happening with me). It's also going with my theme of shock value, the trunk/boot is not what you expect on a real Ferrari. I added semi truck reflector tape for safety reasons, can just see the floor in this nightime picture: Here is something else that is like full scale scratch-building. There was no fender liner inside the passenger front wheel well, I vacuumed out pounds of dirt from the sill area behind the wheel. The shop fabricated aluminum panels attached to the steel square tube structure, except here. I made a cardboard pattern, got a Made In USA truck mudflap, cut with the jigsaw, simply screwed to the tube frame. Shouldn't squeak. 😬 I make up for this dorky cheapskate engineering by having real mechanics do things like this, new links and shocks: I have more to do, like a proper gas tank strap, front bushings then alignment, polish then wax the body...... I'll never get on the bench at this rate. 😏

with Blunderbuss slots

fingernail "polish" thinned

Wondering about starting a 'Show Us Your Junkyard' thread. 🫣

😆 haunting late night

Recent stuff done on Fakerri. The Corvette steel frame had giant flakes of whatever falling off, removed the rest of it, then the sprayed the goopiest paint I ever used, it foams up at first, then settles down. There was no splash panel behind the passenger front wheel, had vacuumed out a couple pounds of dirt from the sill area. Today I got a truck mudflap ( Made in the USA!), made a cardboard pattern: Cut with the jigsaw: I was having people bug me about "tire shine". I remember when Armor All first came out, dad did the tires. After a short drive on a dirt road, they were dirt color. Did the tires, and the mirrors which need to be replaced. Have more to go before the Williams Route 66 car show.

after one week

After having a '91 Jetta (that the Jack Russell Terror chewed into the passenger top), and now the Fakerri with Recaro seats, I'm a fan. The pattern is really nice!

covered with perfume

talk about tools

Tonight's Prescott Antique Auto Club cruise night, second this summer. I'm not taking pictures of every vehicle, especially if seen all the time. This Austin Healey is super nice. Volvo with a Chevy 350. Perfect day, not gale force winds like recently when it clocked over 60MPH on I-40.

I don't need to go further down, this is the pinnacle of fins, and I have the Fisher BAT 5 resin kit. I also have a resin kit made by Jim Simpson, of the Viviant. I'll have to remember to take pictures of fins now.

I'm still pleased I made the door latch work, gonna milk this out some more. I opened the driver door to see what lurked there. This is like an archeological dig, looks like the interior shop wrote the date, so now I know this was built in 1977.

that cute hygienist 🤪

Obnoxiously awesome! Good to see the engine lid is closed. 🤪

with Nitrous feeding

but one more

I got that kit recently, so of course I love it! Opening doors came out great! I never liked to brush paint, and of course when you look at pictures everything jumps out, but it's done and mine isn't.