IM BACK ! NOW TO START ON MY SPYDER ! | 356 Speedster, 550 Spyder, Replica, Automotive Community

aircooled(Bruce) Supporting Member

Hello my fellow Wing Nuts !

I had to put all my toys away in the Garage down in Baja Mex and head back to SoCal to get our Dr. appointments and tax preparations done before our next jaunt north.

While I was away, Greg sent me a progress photo of the rear suspension being built. I haven't talked to him yet but will next week. Hopefully there's something to report on the front suspension.

The photo's below are putting my Mexican Panga back in the garage and a new door I built to replace the wooden one that the ferocious termites ate up so bad that it fell off ! This one is 1/8" steel 2 X 4" with 14ga steel panels. The frame is now 3/16" thick steel channel and 1/2" solid steel jambs. The thing must weigh 200+ lbs so I welded on 4 steel 1/4" thick X 4" hinges to hold it up. It was lots of fun cutting in the holes for the knob and dead bolt lock ! Ha Ha. Between that and getting some nice Lion Paw Scallops and Lobsters, Christmas parties and New year parties (Baja expatriates know how to do these last two things with perfection !) fishing for Marlin,Yellowtail and Dorado (mahi mahi) and just putzing around in the desert has kept us busy and happy ! So now, it's back to more fun up here, doing other things as they come up.

I'm sure you all had a great holiday season and are ready for another year of fun as well

I enjoyed this site while in Baja. It kept my interest a lot because of all of your posts on all kinds of projects .

Salads.............Bruce

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Michael McKelveyAnn Arbor Supporting Member

I would really like to eat some of those scallops!

The door is very impressive.

Cartod Supporting Member

I’ll take the 🦞. Nice door job.

LI-Rick

A home shop in California and a home shop in Mexico, Bruce, you are the man!

aircooled(Bruce) Supporting Member

Mike....They are the best scallops you could possibly eat ! They are huge and the most tender of all scallops in the oceans. You are hearing this from a scallop expert ! Believe it or not. I have actually done research on scallops at the Huntington research library in Pasadena but most of my knowledge comes from eating them from different oceans all over the world.

Cartod...The door took two of us to hang it and weld the hinges.

Li-Rick.......You know how it is ! Ha Ha.....My Wife calls the garage "The Bunker" !!

Bruce

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