Project- Bills Buggy
Well... tonight sucked.. best way I can put it. Went to put the bucket seats in, found out the hard way that the tracks I bought at the Nats last year that were labeled A-body, Dart, Duster, Demon, were most def, NOT a-body bucket seat tracks... 1 step forward and 3 steps back.. this screws me bad. So.. left the garage, and inspected a couple of other a-bodies that my friends have.. a 68 Barracuda and a 73 Duster... Guess what? they seem to have the same tracks, but the tracks I bought dont match.. Lord only knows what my tracks are out of, and at the moment, I cant say I care.. all I know is they're wrong..
So.. we moved on to the next disaster.. Turns out I got ahead of myself last year when I put the rear window chrome back on before finding out if she was water tight.. shes not.. so.. We went to take the chrome off to spread some silicone around the outside of the rubber and try to squeeze some into the seam between the window and rubber.. yeah, well those new clips I bought are something else.. they just wont give the chrome up.. we got the lower piece on the drivers side out after 30 minutes (and yes we were using a trim removal tool) the passenger side we bent.. never got it out. finally gave up.. I was so pissed i figured hell with it, she'll just leak (I was that frustrated and mad) my original drivers side bottom piece was a little bent to begin with, and I have since found another, so I said lets just put that back on and we will deal with this another day... yeah, well the drivers side piece wouldnt go back on right and the alignment is now off.. basically it looks like sh*t... That was the end of the night for me.. we closed shop, and I just walked away from the buggy.. Apparently the 'Christine' thing exists.. tonight she just wanted left alone I guess...
Sorry for the rant.. just frustrated and pissed.. I mean I obviously am a guy with a bench seat car.. I dont have a clue what the seat tracks are supposed to look like.. You go to a show, and expect that when people label stuff, they are being honest and have some clue what they are selling.. Im not made of money, and those seat tracks werent cheap.. ugh..
Tomorrow is another day.. hopefully it goes better than this one.. Now I just hope I can fix my back window chrome.. Im gonna go to bed and try to forget that the buggy and I had this kind of night...