Well, Brad has come and gone for another productive weekend with the car. Our goal was to trial fit as many of the body components as possible before Brad's return visit in mid-October, when we hope to trailer the car up to North Carolina for body work and paint. While here, we all got to go the the car show in Senoia, Georgia and watch K-State beat Miami (Florida, not Ohio) in football!!
On Saturday, we got up early to get a head start on the car. The first thing we did was open all the remaining boxes and lay all out all the pieces for inventory. We figured that as long as there were still pieces on the garage floor, there was more work to be done. It's amazing that my garage has gone from being piled high with boxes to only having a blanket full of pieces left. I have now consolidated the remaining pieces into a couple of small boxes stored in the third-car garage. Our main garage is now totally free of car parts....Leslie couldn't have been more excited.
At about mid-day on Saturday, we took a break to the Senoia car show in the hopes of seeing some Cobras. We saw some great old cars in addition to the three Cobra replicas that were entered in the show. None of the three was manufactured by Factory Five but Brad and I studied each one carefully, looking for any great ideas or improvements we could make to our car. I may be biased, but I have to say that while each of the three Cobras was nice in one way or another, the consistent quality and detail of ours seems to stand apart. I won't say it's perfect, but every time I see somebody elses replica it reminds me just how nice ours is.
We returned from the car show just in time to watch the K-State football game. Brad and I tried to shuttle back and forth from the TV to the garage to get work done whenever there was a break in the game. You may have noticed at this point that Brad has been in town almost a full day now and it doesn't appear that much actual car work is taking place. Well, Brad and I worked non-stop in the garage after the game until 2:30 on Sunday morning. Twice during the night Leslie called down and "politely" suggested that all our banging may be keeping up the neighborhood. During the long night we were able to install the windshield wiper stems, windshield, rear view mirrors and roll bars. We were also able to complete the installation of the lights, fuel cap and front wheel wells.
Senoia, GA car show. Looks pretty good, but...
What do his wheel wells look like?
Roll bars and trim rings.
Rear view and side mirror installation.
It was a long night, so I kind of lost track of what I was fixing here.
Adjusting the windshield.
More chrome trim.
The kids came out in the morning to see what we had done all night.
On Sunday to reward ourselves for a long productive night, we took the car off the jack stands (hopefully for the last time) and rolled it out to admire our work. And while we had it out in the sun we figured we might as well take it around the block a few times!
It kind of looks like a car now.
Belting in for a drive.
Didn't start on the first try...so all I have to do is hit this handy switch here.
I had never tested the new power brakes, so I suggested that he take it slow for this first trip around the block. Maybe he didn't hear me?
Not a lot to explain, but I thought I would post pictures from the many areas of the car that are getting attention these days. As you can see, the body is back on the car and I'm beginning to trial fit all of exterior accessories. All the parts attached to the body needs to be pre-fit and drilled before everything gets shipped off for final body work.
