WE'VE BEEN A BIT OFF COURSE LATELY
For those of you who check this blog periodically you've probably been wondering why we haven't been making any updates. Some tasks have been completed and others started but not reported. The reason being our project manager, floor pan specialist and general handy man has been distracted lately. We'll report on that distraction in another update.
As those of you who have restored a vehicle on a limited budget know it is sometimes necessary to spend time restoring parts rather than buying new ones. To hold down cost we have taken on the time consuming task of cleaning all nuts and bolts so we can reuse them. That task is about 25% complete.
We have also not reported that the hinges for both doors have been restored to include new bushings and pins and reattached the chassis. Work is also underway to salvage the bumper jack. The base of the jack and the tire iron laid in water in the trunk for a long time. Needless to say they needed a lot of attention. As luck would have it a couple days after completing the tire iron we came into posession of a perfectly good one.
Another task that has been moved forward is the restoration of the steering wheel and steering column. Double clip this URL to see a short slide show of that work being completed.
