Tom -
I just saw a Travel Channel segment on that RV show the other night, as well as the coach you just described! Pretty awesome toys!
I was just looking and the War Planes Museum website and when I saw the F4U-1A Corsair, I immediately reminded me of the hoopty. Not a bad paint scheme there too. Battle blue with the star? It folds up and out too.
http://www.planesoffame.org/featured-aircraft.php?ID=5
http://www.planesoffame.org/featured-aircraft.php?ID=5
Not terrible ... And I could do it in the driveway, with a series of about 50 spray cans. Hmmmm. ...
Remind me to move my car when you do that spraycan paint job!
Cory, Just curious, How much time and money do you want to spend on a paint job?
Joe, if I'm smart and wait until the body settles and the fill-work is done, I'll spend a couple to a few thousand dollars. Between now and then, the boat guy is going to do the hard work, I have to get a new windshield and I need to spend some quality time with a palm sander and Rhino kit on the underside.
My list of priorities are:
1. Work out the rest of the bugs in the fuel system and install a working gauge in the dash and sender in the tank.
2. The header goes to Jet-Hot this month, and there's another few hundred bucks.
3. Re-seal my axles so they stop spraying grease. I think I might have eaten the seals up by rolling the chassis around with grinder dust in the tubes.
4. I have GOT to do something about the alignment of my hood. The guide pins that protrude through the dash aim straight up, and the dash is suffering stress cracks as the front end pulls against the hood shocks on the frame head.
5. All of my original recip saw cuts are still jagged. I have to address those; not the refined level of work I'm going to pay for -- and all the cut edges have to be sealed.
6. I need to finish gathering raw materials to make better seats out of. These things are hard on the bum on longish drives (max so far is five hours; it's all I can take).
7. I have to install the VS grille. The hibachi is okay, but its workmanship is crap on a freshly-painted, sorted body -- IMHO.
8. The Rhino-lining of the underside of the body.
9. Boat-guy's project list will include: Frenching in the fog lights; cleaning up the air-gaps in the scoops; seating the decklid better; removing, filling in neatly and then cosmetically lining up the door sills; shaving the door handles; fixing the giant crack in the center of my hood and making a neat, lined hole for a through-hood filler neck; and cleaning up the dimpled rocker-panels where the deco trim pieces made parallel indentions in the body over time.
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My list of priorities are:
1. Work out the rest of the bugs in the fuel system and install a working gauge in the dash and sender in the tank.
2. The header goes to Jet-Hot this month, and there's another few hundred bucks.
3. Re-seal my axles so they stop spraying grease. I think I might have eaten the seals up by rolling the chassis around with grinder dust in the tubes.
4. I have GOT to do something about the alignment of my hood. The guide pins that protrude through the dash aim straight up, and the dash is suffering stress cracks as the front end pulls against the hood shocks on the frame head.
5. All of my original recip saw cuts are still jagged. I have to address those; not the refined level of work I'm going to pay for -- and all the cut edges have to be sealed.
6. I need to finish gathering raw materials to make better seats out of. These things are hard on the bum on longish drives (max so far is five hours; it's all I can take).
7. I have to install the VS grille. The hibachi is okay, but its workmanship is crap on a freshly-painted, sorted body -- IMHO.
8. The Rhino-lining of the underside of the body.
9. Boat-guy's project list will include: Frenching in the fog lights; cleaning up the air-gaps in the scoops; seating the decklid better; removing, filling in neatly and then cosmetically lining up the door sills; shaving the door handles; fixing the giant crack in the center of my hood and making a neat, lined hole for a through-hood filler neck; and cleaning up the dimpled rocker-panels where the deco trim pieces made parallel indentions in the body over time.
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And, Joe and Angela, while I'm thinking about it -- DD in Australia gave me a refund on the Outlaw scripts because it's been four months and I demanded it. I am now looking to another source, for a lot less money. They might or might not be up to snuff. I'll keep you posted.
So, I'm trying to budget appropriately. Boat guy wants about $70 an hour, and he does top-notch work. I'll get it back ready for paint, and the paint job will look a thousand times better after he's smoothed every last ripple out of that thick Gelcoat. I would estimate he's probably going to have about 40 hours' work ahead of him, at the rate he usually sets for himself. Unlike the Wrench, he'll be on it and done in a week. I'm sure of that already, and he's assured me there will not be cost overruns. He did the driver's rear two years ago, and I know he's as good as his word.
So there's more than two grand more into the body, and I'll be waiting on him to give me a window. Meantime, I'm seeing what I can do to ease that cost by learning how myself with a Dremmel and some PolyFil resin. It's slow going.
I have found a painter I can trust, if I really want to go all-out on this thing. While I have a verbal from the body guy, he's a boat-hull repair man in Annapolis, and it's spring. All the yay-hoos are uncovering their holes in the water, and he's stacking up. My woes are slipping to the bottom of his list, and I don't NEED anything done right now. (If I did, and the hood's the only one that's getting visibly worse, he'd slip it in for an afternoon.)
Paint guy will wait on me and get me in "whenever." He's looking forward to the opportunity.
I'm more worried about the mechanical stuff, really. I've run out of gas twice since the fuel gauge was removed, simply testing the range of the car. Those Dells are good at highway speeds on idle jets, but they really gulp in city traffic, so I'm in the habit of carrying extra gas (a practice which should be easily enough remedied in an hour or so with a few hand-tools).
Then there's the windshield. It's the same 550 repro I got from Dario. I haven't replaced it yet, because it's holding in there. When I take it out, it'll probably fail outright. Right now, it's riveted tightly in place, and I don't want to wait the three 'driving' weeks it would take to get another one until I know I've got the car done enough for an expert paint job. (I need to add that he warned me the windshield might not work for my application, and I bought it anyway. Glass would have been too heavy for the flip-front clamshell.)
I could go the far less expensive MAACO route for the short term, and Bondo my holes and cracks, but then I'd be in the same boat in another couple years, and that would suck. When I get it painted, it'll probably be by the guy who offered me the LeMans scheme for $1,500, and it'll probably be straight silver with at least one orange and one blue stripe for the same or less cost.
Long story short? It's going to cost me about $5,000 to get the fit and finish I want. I'll be doing that next winter, hopefully. It's a drop in the bucket, comparatively, but it's taken this long just to get it where it is today from what you saw in PA last year. It isn't killing me to drive it like this and do little stuff to it every day, but it will eventually have to have a couple more giant leaps toward progress before I'm happy. By Carlisle '08, she'll be a show-stopper; that's a realistic timeline I can live with.
(Sorry for the rambling answer, but I guess it helped me to write down the priorities.)
So there's more than two grand more into the body, and I'll be waiting on him to give me a window. Meantime, I'm seeing what I can do to ease that cost by learning how myself with a Dremmel and some PolyFil resin. It's slow going.
I have found a painter I can trust, if I really want to go all-out on this thing. While I have a verbal from the body guy, he's a boat-hull repair man in Annapolis, and it's spring. All the yay-hoos are uncovering their holes in the water, and he's stacking up. My woes are slipping to the bottom of his list, and I don't NEED anything done right now. (If I did, and the hood's the only one that's getting visibly worse, he'd slip it in for an afternoon.)
Paint guy will wait on me and get me in "whenever." He's looking forward to the opportunity.
I'm more worried about the mechanical stuff, really. I've run out of gas twice since the fuel gauge was removed, simply testing the range of the car. Those Dells are good at highway speeds on idle jets, but they really gulp in city traffic, so I'm in the habit of carrying extra gas (a practice which should be easily enough remedied in an hour or so with a few hand-tools).
Then there's the windshield. It's the same 550 repro I got from Dario. I haven't replaced it yet, because it's holding in there. When I take it out, it'll probably fail outright. Right now, it's riveted tightly in place, and I don't want to wait the three 'driving' weeks it would take to get another one until I know I've got the car done enough for an expert paint job. (I need to add that he warned me the windshield might not work for my application, and I bought it anyway. Glass would have been too heavy for the flip-front clamshell.)
I could go the far less expensive MAACO route for the short term, and Bondo my holes and cracks, but then I'd be in the same boat in another couple years, and that would suck. When I get it painted, it'll probably be by the guy who offered me the LeMans scheme for $1,500, and it'll probably be straight silver with at least one orange and one blue stripe for the same or less cost.
Long story short? It's going to cost me about $5,000 to get the fit and finish I want. I'll be doing that next winter, hopefully. It's a drop in the bucket, comparatively, but it's taken this long just to get it where it is today from what you saw in PA last year. It isn't killing me to drive it like this and do little stuff to it every day, but it will eventually have to have a couple more giant leaps toward progress before I'm happy. By Carlisle '08, she'll be a show-stopper; that's a realistic timeline I can live with.
(Sorry for the rambling answer, but I guess it helped me to write down the priorities.)
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Wow Cory! It'll all be worth it in the long run as you know.
I'm hoping to get up with you next week. My list is piling up with "to do's" for the new restaurant, I have appointments for estimates etc... on tuesday and wednesday and I'm not sure what else yet? I'm still waiting on the new front beam and some floats for my carbs to do a rebuild, depending on when I can get it in to have that done will also play into the "cruise possibilities". I should have a good idea by weeks end so I'll let you know and maybe I can cruise down your way or you can make the trip up here?
I'm hoping to get up with you next week. My list is piling up with "to do's" for the new restaurant, I have appointments for estimates etc... on tuesday and wednesday and I'm not sure what else yet? I'm still waiting on the new front beam and some floats for my carbs to do a rebuild, depending on when I can get it in to have that done will also play into the "cruise possibilities". I should have a good idea by weeks end so I'll let you know and maybe I can cruise down your way or you can make the trip up here?
Oh, hell yes. I think we ought to make the rounds in the area and do what they do on the Left Coast -- a sort of roaming Tech Nite; we can make sure EVERYBODY in our area is ready for the Big Show!
Nothing I'm going to do for the Sloppy Jalopy is going to take her out of service for longer than a couple hours unless I do it after 'normal' working hours while I'm at the firehouse.
I'm holding off on the Jet-Hot shipment until after the REAL April rains hit.
No sense in jinxing myself into good weather and no car!
Nothing I'm going to do for the Sloppy Jalopy is going to take her out of service for longer than a couple hours unless I do it after 'normal' working hours while I'm at the firehouse.
I'm holding off on the Jet-Hot shipment until after the REAL April rains hit.
No sense in jinxing myself into good weather and no car!
Cory - Re. the "Outlaw" script, if you are open to other ideas, Total Performance has some emblems for $10 that could work. Check out http://www.tperformance.com/street_rod_store/accessories/chrome_emblems/
Scripts are like Badges...
Badges, Badges,We don't got no Badges! We don't need no Steenking Badges!
But you can get cool stuff from any truck stop. Like mud flap girls, Chrome Stars, Lightning bolts, etc.
Greg B
Badges, Badges,We don't got no Badges! We don't need no Steenking Badges!
But you can get cool stuff from any truck stop. Like mud flap girls, Chrome Stars, Lightning bolts, etc.
Greg B
I like the flame job. Loose the flames; keep the driver. Yiiiikes.
Fiberglass work is not hard. Do you have the tools/place/time to sand it?. For the kind of money your talking about, you should try it on a small project to see how east it is.
You can easily make the foglight buckets (off the car) and then glass them to the car. Let me know if you want some info.
DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT PAINT UNTIL YOU ARE COMPLETELY FINISHED WITH YOUR BODY MODS!!!!
You can easily make the foglight buckets (off the car) and then glass them to the car. Let me know if you want some info.
DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT PAINT UNTIL YOU ARE COMPLETELY FINISHED WITH YOUR BODY MODS!!!!
Bt Is right. Finish all your mods first. If you want buckets for your drive lights use a tupperware bowl for your mold . Is real simple. Just go to the local department store and find the right size bowl you need. Here are the speaker enclosures I made.
The car looks great so far. I'm working on a paint scheme you might like.
Joe
The car looks great so far. I'm working on a paint scheme you might like.
Joe
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Thanks, guys!
Joe, BT, great ideas -- and I was planning on holding off on paint until everything's 'toot-sweet.'
I'd be curious to see what you come up with, Joe ...
Joe, BT, great ideas -- and I was planning on holding off on paint until everything's 'toot-sweet.'
I'd be curious to see what you come up with, Joe ...
JOE! WHATAREYOUDOIN'!!!!
I like the paint scheme you have. Your car is one of the most gorgeous out there. Why are you changing it?
That said, I can't wait to see what you come up with next.
I like the paint scheme you have. Your car is one of the most gorgeous out there. Why are you changing it?
That said, I can't wait to see what you come up with next.
Lane, Don't worry . I'm not doing anything with my speedy. i have another project in the works. A radical 56 ragtop.
Whew!!! Yah had me worried there fer a sec.
Sweet! there are some real VW fanatics 'round here and one has a couple of radical customs like that, including a Karmann Ghia Roadster that he made from a coupe. It has a chopped windshield and no top. Look in the Ghia gallery on Samba on the second page. You'll see a silver Ghia owned by Scott Sain.
Bring project pics to Carlisle so we can drool.
Bring project pics to Carlisle so we can drool.
Lane, I can't make it this year. I have a wedding to go to.
How about THIS?
http://bp3.blogger.com/_i_AovfzNXgQ/RmDeUfSMvFI/AAAAAAAACas/_KmBLRZ2x74/s1600-h/531200555908PM4101.jpg
... but in an FW-190 or ME-262 scheme?
http://www.hsgalleries.com/gallery04/images/fw190a8eduardjh_1.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Messerschmitt_Me_262A.jpg
(With the German crosses, but not the swastikas.)
http://bp3.blogger.com/_i_AovfzNXgQ/RmDeUfSMvFI/AAAAAAAACas/_KmBLRZ2x74/s1600-h/531200555908PM4101.jpg
... but in an FW-190 or ME-262 scheme?
http://www.hsgalleries.com/gallery04/images/fw190a8eduardjh_1.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Messerschmitt_Me_262A.jpg
(With the German crosses, but not the swastikas.)
The first one would be perfect like way ...way kewl!
~Alan
~Alan
Somehow it just fits, doesn't it?
Go for it, C-dawg!
Go for it, C-dawg!
Me... sure thinks so !
Cory - I think you've hit on something there! Those graphics would be most fitting for Hoopty!
i like the WW2 plane style, but you thought you had trouble selling it before - put a really unique and crazy paint job on it and then see.
Party Pooper.....
Cory-
Go for it, man. The faux AL, WWII fighter motif is exactly right for your car and your outlook.
I think it would be very, very cool.
Go for it, man. The faux AL, WWII fighter motif is exactly right for your car and your outlook.
I think it would be very, very cool.