Stuff my dog says; on second thought I'll just build a race car

[NashGTI]

Well, the inevitable happened and the car is homeless again. Got told.....about two hours ago now, that the space was needed and the car has to go outside. No mention of the original promise that were things to come to that it could go into one of the shop trailers so that's almost certainly off the table (and at this point not an option I would take up anyway). The good news is at least it's a full car and I can drive it this time, so that's the plan for the short term is get it to my house and figure things out from there. I'll make some calls tonight and see what my options are past that.

 

[BluzPlayer]

the car is homeless again.

I know of a GREAT foster home...

I am sorry to hear about that change.
At least you did get it complete. That is a major plus.
It is a gorgeous build and I hope you can find a spot for it.
Thanks so much for sharing this whole endeavor with us.

 

[kshansen]

I know of a GREAT foster home...

I am sorry to hear about that change.
At least you did get it complete. That is a major plus.
It is a gorgeous build and I hope you can find a spot for it.
Thanks so much for sharing this whole endeavor with us.

I bet we could find pleaty of people on this forum to "foster" that car for many months

 

[NashGTI]

So talking with the wife about it and the plan is to move some stuff around and find a trailer. It's still not when we planned on doing that but we were planning on it, and since the car is actually a car now it's not as big a deal having to do the trailer thing. Plus that still leaves me the option of driving the car to work and back to keep messing with it there on the weekends. Another thing about this, one of the guys at work asked me this evening if I ever take the car out to just roll around and I said no not for the least of which reason is where it's at in the shop makes it a pain to get in and out of the building, so being at my house will make it easier to just get out and rumble around the neighborhood if nothing else.
Things are more difficult now with getting it painted and the firewall welded up. Most of the intake stuff should be easy enough still apart from the part that bolts to the head. I'll need to get some more spray can primer to cover the rest of the skin at least too. Things felt dire a year ago, but this feels like no big deal really, my wife even pointed out that it's a relief of sorts just getting the uncertainty out of the way.

 

[NashGTI]

Heading to the house and home. The only shock was nearly home waiting to turn left a gray haired lady in a beige Camry drove by with a huge grin and a thumbs up.

 

[jetmechmarty]

How do you drive that thing with no iPad in the instrument panel?

 

[BluzPlayer]

Love that car.
Looks like it would be a whole lot of fun to drive.
Of course now your wife might not like you cruising around in the "Chick Magnet".

 

[NashGTI]

How do you drive that thing with no iPad in the instrument panel?

It does come with drawbacks. That isn't one, but they are there

Also, XS650 special pictures

And I think I'm going to recreate this one, move the boxes and the wife's car.

 

[NashGTI]

Better pictures

 

[Downeaster]

Nice!

 

[NashGTI]

If you don't follow middle Tennessee weather that's understandable, but it just rained for about 21 straight hours. And my waterproof car cover apparently isn't waterproof (obviously right).

I got some primer most of the back Sunday and a little over the dash. That's all it takes on bare steel so now I had a rusty mess. Sanded what I could again tonight and get more around the driver opening and over the top. It's disheartening because there is no good reason for this. The pictures don't make it look as bad as it does in person, I'm rushing everything now understandably so it just looks terrible.

 

[59Tebo]

That's a perfect excuse to run over to HFT for a portable garage...

 

[NashGTI]

That's a perfect excuse to run over to HFT for a portable garage...

All I know about those is the experience from work and it isn't great. We've been having severe thunderstorms with high winds last week and my experiences with them are just tearing in high winds. Hopefully by this time next week or thereabouts I'll have a trailer for the car to sit in.

For today, sanding under a portable canopy to keep priming.

 

[NashGTI]

A days work outside, and a darker blue in the roll bar which I think will be replacing the stuff on the nose and suspension bits.

 

[NashGTI]

Brush painted back over the spray primer. Even for these low standards it's too large an area for decent coverage with the breeze. Back to the "passengers" side again and I discovered I've broken an exhaust hangar at some point.

 

[Jim]

If you don't follow middle Tennessee weather that's understandable, but it just rained for about 21 straight hours. And my waterproof car cover apparently isn't waterproof (obviously right).

I got some primer most of the back Sunday and a little over the dash. That's all it takes on bare steel so now I had a rusty mess. Sanded what I could again tonight and get more around the driver opening and over the top. It's disheartening because there is no good reason for this. The pictures don't make it look as bad as it does in person, I'm rushing everything now understandably so it just looks terrible.

I'm guessin' you've already taken care of the rust by now, but for future reference, pour a little Ospho on a rag and it will literally wipe surface rust away. Once rubbed on, it'll protect against surface rust for a few weeks also. It's good stuff.

 

[NashGTI]

I'm guessin' you've already taken care of the rust by now, but for future reference, pour a little Ospho on a rag and it will literally wipe surface rust away. Once rubbed on, it'll protect against surface rust for a few weeks also. It's good stuff.

Use it regularly at work, works best if you can wipe the panel down with ospho then wrap the panel with plastic and leave it for a few hours. I've never tried it in the open sunshine like I've got here. Just been doing this the elbow grease way with sand paper.

 

[NashGTI]

 

[NashGTI]

The mobile car storage solution is finally here. Now I just need it to quit raining long enough to move the car into the trailer.

 

[NashGTI]

It stopped raining