Now matter how many cars I look at for inspiration, I keep coming back to Eastwood Purple Passion Intermix Paint. My love of Decepticon Shockwave just keeps governing all thoughts. The purple, with two shades of grey as accents, and bits of orange here and there really might work. Purples are so not easy though….
Month: February 2019
Amazing work on a 78 restoration.
So as I’m putzing around the interwebs I came across a series of old series posts on some forum on a guy’s restoration of a 78. There’s a lot of great pics post of metal repair work and a ton of great pics of the disassembled car from different angles, with lots of close-ups. This…
Giving away the OPP…
So I decided I’m just going to give away a lot of the parts I have no need for. If someone local needs them then why not? I already have given away 1 full set of original Super Beetle brake drums. They are pretty rusty both inside and out, but the tolerance looks good enough…
Still tearing down the OPP.
Got a little work done in the garage today. The hurricane level winds dropped the wind chill into the 20s so it wasn’t very pleasant to be out there even with the garage door closed. Still working on the strut and suspension tear down. The sway bar will just not separate from the damn 1302…
Strut Decisions!
So it is time to think about future strut replacements. Do I import Kerscher Tuning 1302 struts or go with what will ultimately be a lower cost domestic solution in the Topline Parts Maxx struts?
Getting the AE engine working and swapped.
There are a lot of incomplete sub-tasks of the various ongoing projects at the moment. Ohio winter has made me not want to work on anything really. I’ve got the AH engine rebuild going on, the AR engine tear-down and prep, the tear down of all that last minute 1302/1303 suspension stuff, as well as…
Years away… but thinking… interiors.
I know I’m years away from needing to make final decisions but I’ve been thinking of interior colors. I’m pretty sure that if I keep stock style seats for I’ll just end up going with Project Żuczek I’ll end up going fully with a Sewfine interior. Hell, even if I end up changing the front seats…
The 47 year old spindles are finally free of the struts!
So I’ve been working on those 1302 front struts and spindles off and on for weeks and was making zero progress in separately the spindle off the damn strut bottom. No amount of heat, soaking, whacking, etc. that I could do with my tools in my garage made a difference. We got the gland nuts…
Some OPP Progress
I managed to make some progress in the garage today. I tackled those 1303 struts. I got the springs off. None of it too difficult. Front brakes all separated well and I’ve salvaged the backing plates to see if anyone wants them. Of course, I turned my focus back to the 1302 struts and didn’t…
Guess what? More snow!
Woke up to about 5″ of snow everywhere. However the temps were in the low 20s (°F) today. Believe me… I don’t think any of expected to wake up to this today. What’s so bad crazy is that Sunday we are supposed to be over 52°F. That will literally be a 50° difference in less…