89AKurt

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.

I was expecting Killdozer, but this is really cool! Why are those parts yellow?

airport runways, racing

I did what I learned from building models, and blew up to full scale. 😅 Went to U-Pick-It for a wiper arm, no luck because it looks like GM made all their wiper posts bigger after '69, and nothing that old there. But I did get a prop rod: Which just needed some bending, and shortened a little. The only thing I measured was the length. If I ever put carpet in, you won't see the sign or furniture "plywood". One of the taillights needed attention, the lens was not straight and was super loose. Yea that's hokey with the duct tape (couldn't figure out how bailing wire could be used), and the wood wedge, but the lens is not moving! Lucked out in having a bulb. Just need someone who does electrical, and he knows it. The exterior door latches did not work. I made a wood prototype, then one aluminum part which did not work, made another with a different shape, and I can't believe it works! Never measured anything, all by eye. I had no idea what was in there, whatever part was not at the bottom of the door, so I observed what moved and what was modified. I made a good excuse to test the prop rod, went shopping. 😆 Sunday drive north to Ash Fork, then to the abandoned segment of Route 66 for a selfie. It sure likes curvy roads that are smooth. 😏 Wanted a more stylin' hat, but it wants to get sucked off my head. 🙄 So I'm pleased that despite having minimal experience at restoring cars, that I used my model building experience, which means patience and lots of trial and error. I'm registered for the Williams car show first weekend in June, need to get it polished and waxed!

Radiator Springs dump

There are several locations where the alignment was changed, before the Interstate was a thing. In this section, what remains was the second alignment, the first is a barely drivable dirt path, which I have taken with the pickup. Just eastward, is the infamous Ash Fork Hill, the highway can barely be hiked because it's so abandoned.

repairing leaky radiators