like your mother said ‘before you leave the house wear clean underwear.’ has never before been more important than now. i am sure the TSA will be checking you status the next time you fly, what with the discovery of a new underwear bomber plot. the question is only how? any suggestions?
Posts Tagged ‘car’s’
money pit painting
September 2, 2010warning warning will robertson. i should have listened but i was blinded by the possibilities of owning a convertible of my dreams.
robbie
we go from this back end original color
to just this peak
the final phase is in progress as we read. we picked out a metallic red for the car the last time we went to the body shop ugh. trying to match original Ford colors with new water based paint ain’t easy, at least not going back to the 70’s as is our car. do red cars get more tickets? guess we’ll find out.
doors & trunk
but feeling the sanded metal quarter panels gave me chills as they were as smooth as a babies bottom. the body work was excellent although we’ve no idea of the cost which will probably open our eyes to the reality of car restorations.
then the other side, i haven’t seen the car yet these were taken by mary from outside the paint booth but from the looks of it this is being done the right way. so much of our time, blood, sweat and tears have gone into this car. i’ve lost count how many times we’ve taken out and replaced the heater, learned easier if we disconnect the dash board from the body and pull it out of the way in order to pass the support heater bracket.
here is our new quarter panel and striker post, well the post is old but much better than the one we had. the more i look at these pictures i get excited just thinking about driving it. the best part of all is mary doesn’t have to change lipstick colors.
we maybe able to exchange some of our photography talents to the body shop as they want a web site for the shop and a brother-in-law’s beauty parlor. oh well we’ll see what happens.
so far all we want to see is the car put back together, i’ve got another big job ahead.
The world’s most expensive car now displayed at
August 5, 2010The Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, California
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knowing how much cars mean to californian’s, driving around town shielded by a steel bubble, is almost a religion gone public. one is what one drives seems to be the zen mantra of some californian inhabitants affecting both male and females of that race.
in the short time i lived there, ten years, i got an automotive education about cars i never even heard of. looking for my cougar i saw many new varieties of cars, ever hear of a jensen? an english car. with all the movie people driving leased lamborghini’s and ferrari’s down the freeway one feels a sense of why not me as they pass or more likely as you both inch along in a traffic event. slowly as times passes one by while waiting to move ahead we can see ourselves behind the wheel of any number of exotic cars, looking cool.
heads turn towards us, we are somebody not just another toxic carbon monoxide generator killing plants and people because we look cool behind the wheel of ………………. name your poison. but if you’d like to see something dreams are made of then go up to oxnard ca.
Oxnard, CA – If you have a desire to see the world’s most expensive car in all its primal glory, the Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, Calif., has put it on display. The 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic, the first of three built, sold for more than $30 million and possibly as much as $40 million in a private sale brokered in May by California auction house Gooding and Company. The Bugatti will be on display for just two or three months at the art-deco-inspired Mullin museum, which opened April 15. Watch for museum hours, which are sporadic. The first chance to gaze at the Bugatti Atlantic will be Aug.10th from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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