71 duster resto'mod "driver" project...
Thanx Rodzilla... I know exactly what you mean, as soon as I could say good bye to buses and bikes and roller skates, I had to have 4 wheels and didn't look back ha ha... you never know with them lil ones though, the one who just recieved the challenger in the story above.... Well, I didn't have the slightest clue that kid was into cars at all until years ago when I initially gave the challenger to his brother.... hardly knew the kid could even talk lol, and right outta the blue he just went off on me about how dare I give it to his brother instead of him, cause after all, alone he stood in the window and watched me drive up in it for the very first time ever! etc. etc. lol
yikes, I felt like a "bleeeep" that day lol... intesting how it's destiny wound up being him....
alright, back with the picture book story..... at one point in this project, my mission was to have the car down on 4 wheels and ready to head to the painter before the weed in the following picture managed to grow tall enough to touch the bottom of the car........... named this picture "duster in the weeds" lol.... yeah, some day I hope I grow up enough to get a real garage so jack and his beanstock can't just keep randomly sprouting up from what ever crack they feel like :wack: lol.....
We carried on with all the projects, and most of the pictures are self explainatory so I'll just let them do the talking....................
.........and at this point, wha la... the wheels hit the ground. In the end, we didn't quite beat the weed as it touched up about 2 days before the wheels touched down.........put the drivers seat from my son's 70 in for the trip.......
mocked up the gauges so we could moniter things for first fire up
Apparently, got drunk and figured I needed to tape up my steering wheel lol:blob:
Then, well........... the first delay happened. I was finally ready for the painter guy, but now he wasn't ready for me.....for this reason or that, things got delayed and delayed and delayed, until finally... we made plans to get the car in for the septemper long weekend........ Well, despite me taking 2 weeks hollidays begining that weekend in anticipation of the car heading off at the beginning of the weekend, and coming back on the following monday; thus, giving me 2 weeks to leasurely put things back together in holiday mode :D............
Yeah, that didn't happen and I felt like beating my own head with a hammer :violent1:......... but then, finally, I recieved definitive confirmation that just as my holidays were ending, he'd be ready to take the car... and low and behold, she hit the trailor once again... and though not as I'd planned it, this was a good day..........
To really make sure things would happen, my middle son and I volunteered to help sand down the car in preperation for the new paint job....
and this was how we left it that day for the painter to finish the final prep etc.
during that mid Sept weekend, I carried on with side projects such as the console exposed earlier, and painting the seat backs... etc. etc.
this takes things to the last week of Sept of this year........and finally, nearly 3 yrs and 1 month after she first left......... Violet returns in ready to actually be put back togher for real form and.... I had to poke myself with a stick I was so in shock :poke:
Stay "tuned" :happy1:
Thanx Rodzilla... I know exactly what you mean, as soon as I could say good bye to buses and bikes and roller skates, I had to have 4 wheels and didn't look back ha ha... you never know with them lil ones though, the one who just recieved the challenger in the story above.... Well, I didn't have the slightest clue that kid was into cars at all until years ago when I initially gave the challenger to his brother.... hardly knew the kid could even talk lol, and right outta the blue he just went off on me about how dare I give it to his brother instead of him, cause after all, alone he stood in the window and watched me drive up in it for the very first time ever! etc. etc. lol
yikes, I felt like a "bleeeep" that day lol... intesting how it's destiny wound up being him....
alright, back with the picture book story..... at one point in this project, my mission was to have the car down on 4 wheels and ready to head to the painter before the weed in the following picture managed to grow tall enough to touch the bottom of the car........... named this picture "duster in the weeds" lol.... yeah, some day I hope I grow up enough to get a real garage so jack and his beanstock can't just keep randomly sprouting up from what ever crack they feel like :wack: lol.....
We carried on with all the projects, and most of the pictures are self explainatory so I'll just let them do the talking....................
.........and at this point, wha la... the wheels hit the ground. In the end, we didn't quite beat the weed as it touched up about 2 days before the wheels touched down.........put the drivers seat from my son's 70 in for the trip.......
mocked up the gauges so we could moniter things for first fire up
Apparently, got drunk and figured I needed to tape up my steering wheel lol:blob:
Then, well........... the first delay happened. I was finally ready for the painter guy, but now he wasn't ready for me.....for this reason or that, things got delayed and delayed and delayed, until finally... we made plans to get the car in for the septemper long weekend........ Well, despite me taking 2 weeks hollidays begining that weekend in anticipation of the car heading off at the beginning of the weekend, and coming back on the following monday; thus, giving me 2 weeks to leasurely put things back together in holiday mode :D............
Yeah, that didn't happen and I felt like beating my own head with a hammer :violent1:......... but then, finally, I recieved definitive confirmation that just as my holidays were ending, he'd be ready to take the car... and low and behold, she hit the trailor once again... and though not as I'd planned it, this was a good day..........
To really make sure things would happen, my middle son and I volunteered to help sand down the car in preperation for the new paint job....
and this was how we left it that day for the painter to finish the final prep etc.
during that mid Sept weekend, I carried on with side projects such as the console exposed earlier, and painting the seat backs... etc. etc.
this takes things to the last week of Sept of this year........and finally, nearly 3 yrs and 1 month after she first left......... Violet returns in ready to actually be put back togher for real form and.... I had to poke myself with a stick I was so in shock :poke:
Stay "tuned" :happy1: