Garage Find!
As prototypers by trade, there is nothing we throw away as you never know one day to the next what small piece of steel, aluminum, delrin, nylon, wood, etc you are going to need. Same for fasteners. We have every standard/metric button head, cap head, 12 point, flat head that Man has ever invented. But...occasionally it gets to be a bit much as there is only so much available floorspace and the robots gets grumpy when they are feeling squeezed. Which means our annual Clean Up Day has finally arrived!
In the midst of the clean-up today, under a pile of cardboard boxes and dust, I spy this large hulk resting under a cover in the back corner of the shop. We pushed it out onto the main shop floor - peeled the cover off it and lo and behold - a 1968 Mustang convertible!!! Candy Apple Red - 80% restored but still needing about a 1000 15 minutes job to complete. I had the boys give her a quick sponge bath and here she is. Maybe I'll get inspired and try to get a few of those 15 minute job off the to-do list.
LOL! You weren't supposed to have lost it in the first place! :-)
ReplyDeleteNothing inspires like imagining oneself driving it off into the sunset. Just start with one little task and then another and before you know it, you'll be done.
So....who's is it? That's too tempting to see a car so close to being done languish in the back corner of a shop. Hopefully it will be completed sooner than later. Waiting to see your next installment (hint, hint!) :-)
ReplyDeleteRJ.....don't make me come out there! LOL! Git 'er dun!
ReplyDeleteYou guys are too funny. Can you imagine if we all lived in the same neighborhood!?!?! We'd never get anything done except working on Mustangs. Although I don't really see a downside there :)
ReplyDeleteI actually got underneath the car today. Got the front suspension adjusted so at least the tires look like they are pointing straight ahead. Then started trial fitting the inner splash shields. That's all I need to get completed to get the front fenders on her. Even ordered some parts on Ebay for the rear suspension. So a little progress!
So, where do we all want to move? There's 10 acres for sale a couple of miles from me. We could build one ginormous shop in the middle. Plus we'd be near IMS, Raceway park, and a host of other shops. Any other suggestions????
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