That book, "The Nature of Boats", will be coming here via Amazon. Thanks for recommendation.
Time to do some yard-clearing around here. First is an '86 Corvette I bought cheap after it had been T-boned in a wreck and de-engined. All I want is the front/rear suspension which come out a little easier if you turn it upside-down. Couldn't figure out how to open the rear hatch, whatever lever or key thing they must have had was missing. Since they are pretty common I finally just broke it with an iron bar. It took three pretty-good whacks to do it, of-course I was shop-vac'ing glass pieces outta the car and everything else nearby for a while afterward. Having removed the hatch by that method, it then becomes apparent that you can just pull on a little cable that comes out of the latch mechanism from the inside, and "click".
Next is a '94 Trans-Am. This sat in a storage yard without the registration being paid until, together with other needed repairs, the amount of fees, interest and penalties was too high to make it worth putting on the road again. California will do that to you, if you skip paying charges they will send letters to your home demanding the money or threatening to have it taken out of your check, just like the tax man, and it doesn't matter if you're actually using the car or not. Severe. Anyhow, that being the situation I got it cheap for parts. What I want is the LT1 motor, six-speed, and all the stuff like cooling, electronics, hvac and the rest. All other parts have sat on Craigslist with exactly zero interest, so plastic doors, fenders and interior are all headed for a dumpster if I can't find a recycler, while the metal can go to the local scrap. There are only two of those bling wheels anyhow, another is damaged and the fourth is missing altogether.
Note chicken wandering through picture, we have a couple loose in the yard to keep the insects down.
Yet another project starts in the garage, not what I need right now but this is where the 'Vette suspension is going and I wanted at-least the rear portion nailed down while I had the body around to take measurements off of. Shown are rocker rails and rear mains, .104" steel formed on the pressbrake and tig-welded. This will be a highly, highly modified early-nineties Toyota Supra, there may be very little Supra left when done. "Sports" car, not a drag car. Maybe some of my other crap projects around here will disappear in favor of that one.
A recent remark, which I sorta brushed off at the time, remains sticking with me. That is the process by which people change their minds, I suppose.
Finally, the Wife likes it when I sit down to make something like this for her periodically. Carved-out of brass, maybe some day I will take this and the bunch of others made over time to be gold-plated...in this case I think I need to take it back and do a little more work on the bumpy parts first, the photo really shows them. Seems my eyes are not what they used to be and as you can imagine, holding onto this tiny stuff while cutting and filing away is kind-of a trick.
Time to do some yard-clearing around here. First is an '86 Corvette I bought cheap after it had been T-boned in a wreck and de-engined. All I want is the front/rear suspension which come out a little easier if you turn it upside-down. Couldn't figure out how to open the rear hatch, whatever lever or key thing they must have had was missing. Since they are pretty common I finally just broke it with an iron bar. It took three pretty-good whacks to do it, of-course I was shop-vac'ing glass pieces outta the car and everything else nearby for a while afterward. Having removed the hatch by that method, it then becomes apparent that you can just pull on a little cable that comes out of the latch mechanism from the inside, and "click".
Next is a '94 Trans-Am. This sat in a storage yard without the registration being paid until, together with other needed repairs, the amount of fees, interest and penalties was too high to make it worth putting on the road again. California will do that to you, if you skip paying charges they will send letters to your home demanding the money or threatening to have it taken out of your check, just like the tax man, and it doesn't matter if you're actually using the car or not. Severe. Anyhow, that being the situation I got it cheap for parts. What I want is the LT1 motor, six-speed, and all the stuff like cooling, electronics, hvac and the rest. All other parts have sat on Craigslist with exactly zero interest, so plastic doors, fenders and interior are all headed for a dumpster if I can't find a recycler, while the metal can go to the local scrap. There are only two of those bling wheels anyhow, another is damaged and the fourth is missing altogether.
Note chicken wandering through picture, we have a couple loose in the yard to keep the insects down.
Yet another project starts in the garage, not what I need right now but this is where the 'Vette suspension is going and I wanted at-least the rear portion nailed down while I had the body around to take measurements off of. Shown are rocker rails and rear mains, .104" steel formed on the pressbrake and tig-welded. This will be a highly, highly modified early-nineties Toyota Supra, there may be very little Supra left when done. "Sports" car, not a drag car. Maybe some of my other crap projects around here will disappear in favor of that one.
A recent remark, which I sorta brushed off at the time, remains sticking with me. That is the process by which people change their minds, I suppose.
Originally posted by SuperBuickGuy
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