My car was delivered yesterday. 3 years and 1 month to the day. Here are some pictures of the finished version. Hope you like it.
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Beautiful car ! The last photo it looks almost like a toy car compared to its garage mate. I'm getting anxious now. Was the three years worth it ??............Bruce
Beautiful Spyder !! The color goes perfectly with the tan interior. Nice job
Gorgeous! Some things are worth waiting for.
Gorgeous! You must be so chuffed.
Let me know if you want an aluminum half tonneau cover for that bad boy.
nice!..that car is "PLUM CRAZY" 
(see what i did there?) congrats!....i knew a bit about waiting too! ... "it's the hardest part"- tom petty
Beautiful car! I may have seen it earlier this week when I was visiting Beck and picking up parts for my build. Be prepare to receive a lot of attention driving it!
WOW! I bet the first night with that bad boy, you sat in the garage staring at it for hours (if not all night)! 
What engine are you running? Pics? The car looks amazing! I love the guys at Special Edition. Top quality work all the way. Best in the business hands down.
Simply gorgeous man. Love to see some shots in sunlight.
@aircooled posted:Beautiful car ! The last photo it looks almost like a toy car compared to its garage mate. I'm getting anxious now. Was the three years worth it ??............Bruce
I told Carey when I placed the order that I'd hope I'd still be alive when it was finished.
@Jimmy V. posted:What engine are you running? Pics? The car looks amazing! I love the guys at Special Edition. Top quality work all the way. Best in the business hands down.
The engine is a Pat Downs 2276
@MusbJim posted:WOW! I bet the first night with that bad boy, you sat in the garage staring at it for hours (if not all night)!
Spent about 5 hours detailing it. Close up stairing at it. 😆
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Stunning car. Have fun!
Granger, IN is not a ridiculous drive from the areas where we do the Tours de Smo'. You should consider joining us sometime.
Thanks For the engine pics. What size is it, who builds Special Editions engines? Or did you supply it to them? I owned a Beck Spyder in the mid 2000's and really had a blast with it. I was running a very hot 2387cc engine with a big cam high compression and SuperFlow racing heads. Taking off in this was a little like being shot out of a cannon I suspect. Your car is beautiful. I have found even though I hated the wait a lot of the fun was during the build process, but I never had to wait three years. That is a looong time. Hope you have many many years of fun with this Gem.
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@Jimmy V. posted:Thanks For the engine pics. What size is it, who builds Special Editions engines? Or did you supply it to them? I owned a Beck Spyder in the mid 2000's and really had a blast with it. I was running a very hot 2387cc engine with a big cam high compression and SuperFlow racing heads. Taking off in this was a little like being shot out of a cannon I suspect. Your car is beautiful. I have found even though I hated the wait a lot of the fun was during the build process, but I never had to wait three years. That is a looong time. Hope you have many many years of fun with this Gem.
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@Lane Anderson posted:Stunning car. Have fun!
Granger, IN is not a ridiculous drive from the areas where we do the Tours de Smo'. You should consider joining us sometime.
Let me know when and where
@Lane Anderson posted:Granger, IN is not a ridiculous drive from the areas where we do the Tours de Smo'. You should consider joining us sometime.
Define "ridiculous".
@SJackson lives 10 hrs from Wytheville, VA, 11 hrs from Brevard, and 10-1/2 from next year's possible destination. I realize that next to @Butcher Boy, any trip is just a skip away -- but getting out east to play in the mountains is a major commitment from the Midwest.
... even moreso when you leave the keys to your car in a hotel room and have to backtrack 4 hrs. to retrieve them like *ahem* "some people" *ahem*.
@Stan Galat posted:but getting out east to play in the mountains is a major commitment from the Midwest.
... even moreso when you leave the keys to your car in a hotel room and have to backtrack 4 hrs. to retrieve them like *ahem* "some people" *ahem*.
Ouch.
@Michael Pickett posted:Ouch.
Yeah.
We stayed over at about the halfway point (in Dayton, OH) because Jeanie doesn't do well after about 8 hrs or so in the car. Wednesday we were 3-1/2 hrs down the road and eating lunch just outside the WV line when I realized I didn't have the keys and some of my scrips. I called the hotel and housekeeping had found them.
We drove through the rain back to Dayton, then turned around and drove to VA. I became intimately familiar with US 35 through Ohio. We got into Wytheville (in the pouring rain) at about 10:30 PM having left at 9:00 in the morning.
Yes-- that's 13-1/2 hrs for those of you who may have gone to Pekin High School. If you refer to Google Maps, you may note (should you care to check) that Wytheville, VA is about 10 hrs from Morton, IL. Turning around made the trip longer than if we'd just done it in one gulp PLUS the 5 hrs we'd driven the day before. Getting to Wytheville took me 18-1/2 hrs total. In the rain. So. Much. Rain.
It was not my finest hour.
@SJackson posted:Let me know when and where
We just got back from Tour de Smo' 2024. So you have plenty of time. It's always somewhere in the southern Appalachians.