I fell asleep underwater while scuba diving. Warm tropical water, a hard party night before and a boring dive. Pretty scary. I aborted the dive when I woke up.........Bruce
aircooled posted:I fell asleep underwater while scuba diving. Warm tropical water, a hard party night before and a boring dive. Pretty scary. I aborted the dive when I woke up.........Bruce
Holy crap !
aircooled posted:I fell asleep underwater while scuba diving. Warm tropical water, a hard party night before and a boring dive. Pretty scary. I aborted the dive when I woke up.........Bruce
Rapture of the deep, maybe, along with rapture of the night before?
IaM-Ray posted:calmotion posted:Jim Gilbert - Madison, Mississippi posted:The guy under the dash looks like me! At 69 I can still do it! Not much room under there to work.
@@Jim Gilbert 69 is the new 50 now a days 👍
The idea is to have an escape plan.... help, pull me out
@IaM-Ray push the button around the neck to send distress signal LOL
Help, I've loosened the bolt and I can't get up...
If I woke up underwater mid-dive I’d have aborted FAR more than the dive itself!
aircooled posted:I fell asleep underwater while scuba diving. Warm tropical water, a hard party night before and a boring dive. Pretty scary. I aborted the dive when I woke up.........Bruce
Wow that is a deep scary movie in the making
The environment was really soothing and pleasurable for sleeping. I was totally warm and weightless as well. Luckily my head bobbed a couple times and I woke up to discover what had happened. I got back on the boat before something catastrophic happened..............Bruce
Any updates on your project?
@John Schneeman — Hi John! We changed out the master cylinder that went bad, and am waiting for the tire saddle to get painted. Should have that done in the next 1-2 days.
After that, we will wire the crank trigger and the car will be ready for a test fire. Everything else is done...except the interior!
I’ll post an update next week, or sooner if possible.
Anand
Thanks, looking forward to your update!
Carey got my master cylinder changed and put the whole front of the car back together. My turn signal switch was busted, so we put a pre-A style one in (the early 550s had switches with black housings, the later ones had tan housings that matched the tan steering columns).
Carey is going to rivet in a new leather strip for the rear cowl and also put my tire holder in. I think he’s also ready to start plumbing in my front mounted setrab oil cooler, too.
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Looks great! Hey, who is having the white car built? It looks just like mine!
Carey, call Greg, I heard he "may" be making his own nosecones and shifters.
I've used them already, they are nicer than PBS...
HEY!
Carey's got my old, white Donor Beetle in the back of his shop!
Absolutely stunning.
Dibs on the Carey clone!!!
Maybe I should pop out to Indiana and be a guest builder on Lane's coupe? I can't promise much except major league ball-busting between Carey, Mike, and me......
Hey, I already worked on your first car.
DannyP posted:Maybe I should pop out to Indiana and be a guest builder on Lane's coupe? I can't promise much except major league ball-busting between Carey, Mike, and me......
Hey, I already worked on your first car.
Danny , since WE are retired we should do a field trip to Carey's maybe wrench a day on Lane's Coupe and the Janis Joplin car soo ~
In all seriousness that would be extremely cool. 👍👍
It just keeps getting better.
Nice touch hanging the filter on the firewall.
Carey and I have been collecting photos of original 550s in an attempt to learn about the details of the interiors.
I was able to see the European Collectibles’ 550 in person last March (2019), and got some up close photos. We also ended up talking to Andrew Hosking, owner of the type550.com site, who has provided many photos and guidance for this build.
Carey suspected that the vinyl probably wouldn’t stay in place too well along the door thresholds or at the top of the firewall without some aluminum ferrules. I reached out to Andrew, and he confirmed Carey’s suspicions.
Cool photos to see — these are of another French blue car that was done by a restoration shop in Europe. Cool little details. I love this stuff. Carey: not so much. LMFAO
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mais oui. 
The material is a bit stiff, I found.
"Cool photos to see — these are of another French blue car that was done by a restoration shop in Europe. Cool little details. I love this stuff. Carey: not so much. LMFAO"
The builder is trying to finish the project while most guys are continually trying to make it more perfect....
I guess that is why Dolly Parton's husband sent her yearly for Plastic surgery tuneups
Hey @arajani are those photos of 550-0051 under reconstruction? They look familiar but the ones I was going by (Hoskings' site, probably) disappeared from the web a year or two ago.
@edsnova — Not sure! You might be right. I thought these pictures were from Torsten’s Shop (Simonsen 356 Panels).
Anyway, here’s the latest. Brad (seen here) is the upholstery guru — this guy is amazing. He’s been planning the rear firewall and getting everything together.
The seats are a mess thanks to my OCD. I had Carey change the cushion shapes a bit and have created yet another mess. I am surprised he hasn’t burned my car in a bonfire yet, to be honest.
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I'm 99 percent sure that's 0051.
Your car's looking spot-on.
Getting the barberpole material to lay down on that lower contour is going to be real work. I think he'll have to start in the middle and slowly work his way out with the glue, stretching it all the way while keeping the lines straight as possible. Just an absolute slog.
On mine I made a separate foam piece with the right(ish) shape and tried to wrap the material around it. The foam did not have the stiffness or smoothness (nor did I have the requisite skill) needed to make it all lay down properly though, so you can see.
Yeah, though, the seats were fine....
Now all you need is a matching belt and of course the Jay Leno blue denim wardrobe
Very nice with the legit turn-key latches. And—of course—once again going just one better with the correct (not phillips) upholstery screws!
Dude.
Ed: Anand’s also got one of those super-light “Al Blanchette Special” racing ignition keys, too!
It’s becoming a long winter. I may have to create my own lightened racing key for something more to do.
One advantage of the $10 ignition switch that was standard equipment on my VS is that the designers have already minimized the mass of the key. No further lightening is required - or even prudent.
And the pot metal in the switch body is also the lightest alloy obtainable.
The key shape is correct for mailboxes and piggy banks of the period.
And in a master stroke, they extended this 'less is more' design philosophy to the switch contacts, too.
