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Bill, what do you do when a fly keeps landing on your sandwich?

There is an obvious posting pattern evident here on RRT that I find annoying and have ever since it started elsewhere many years ago, that I just am no longer willing to tolerate. To suggest it is not intentional and persistent would be more rude gaslighting. The bird dog knows who they are. I have done my best to ignore it and continue contributing content but enough is enough and I'm tempted once again to exercise my rights. Just sayin'

The 47 job is back in the hands of the man who boxed the frame, currently refining engine mounting.

The 73 job got shot.

The Camaro rear and front ends both fit decent now but fenders need a few tweaks. Curves at sides of hood match fenders well and that by itself is remarkable.

 

Good man ^^^    Fixing a carb.

The Taiwan Special is a roller. Tacked washers to some round tube mockup cab spacers I had on the 47 truck to make shackle bushing simulators. Happened to be the right size. Small amounts of whittling were needed on spring pockets and one foldover nut hole in order to put the rear and springs in. Now... on to trying to tame the chaos at the tail end of the body.

Phil, theres no title or keys. Thats why I tried to give it away here and to anyone. I have about $700 in it. Reason for moving is my home insurer found out it was in my yard and refused to do business with it there. After being there for a decade. Theres no need for trying to convince me that theres a better way to handle it than how I did but thanks. I don't do FB and don't care to help derby guys. They beg to borrow then just steal and destroy. Having it off my property is as a big mental relief as the seatbelt ticket outcome last year.

The Camaro could be a roller already. Subframe went right in but no upper shackle bushings are present.

Phil, no it does not run.

Finally got the junk GP out of my yard and onto death row. Its hard not to be a little sad.    RIP

If a guy had a mess of old beds he could probably sell a few done that way, yep. The ol jailbar bed box is out back. Some sort of big wheelbarrow might be another adaptation. Pugsy said he could turn one into an insulated stainless cooler thing in a day. I don't guess I've ever seen one done this way so any idea cleverness credits go to boss man. His thought was to just chop it off and have maybe just a tubing X at the back but I was like nah, shove the ends together so it has four stake pocket "legs".

Thanks guys, it is intended to be a tuner and stuff table that will be below a wall mounted TV. I enjoyed the task and thought it a good boss cave idea. He asked for 20" depth and the rest worked itself out. I was inclined to crudely hinge the top but that wasn't the idea. It is sturdy enough to stash a big auto trans in with a plywood floor. There is a cross brace. It is heavy, I used the entire bed box!

And yeah... sent a pic to Dad who thought it was neat and should be mine. But Mom was of course over the moon wanting one.

Probably due to the yeah, antique finish. Which I also like. Gate looks pretty bad though. Hard to tell in pics but the top barely sticks out past gate and interference with bowed gate is what keeps it shut.

As far as happy metal work projects go I have long suspected that I can handle all the metal work. I have actually been doing just that this winter and it seems (to me) that I get way far ahead that way. And fill in with bondo work.

I can be physically comfortable and enjoy doing my 30 hours a week of metal and mud. When I had a newby who does constant bondo help me tote that bed to my stall he said aw so you got a fun day ahead. I said well next Tuesday will begin my 15th year on that slab, so... get in line.  

Wow, four likes! Can't tell who gave em but thanks. Boss liked the lid idea well enough to have me proceed on that. A wood top was what he originally had in mind but it just so happened that the bedside leftovers turned out the exact width of the bed so I had sat them on top. It is all welded up now and theres a finger pull to open the gate with, and he plans to have the guys paint it.

Today I made a cabinet out of the old bed from the '51 F-1 5.0 job, for the boss.

1st impression of the Camaro body??

First? Not terrible, for 12K. But, also 3K to ship and five-six hun for the carton thing (sans wheels)

Second? Mmm, kinda cringey. My understanding is that bodies are assembled stateside, in one place on each coast. Study the comparative pattern in pic to get an idea of the slop amount. Study also the jamb pic showing where Dcorn cut the left qtr at gap and below for about a foot and a half. Theres your telltale quality indicator. (its a mess, I ain't touchin it until I have latch and rubber)

 

Heres a couple pix of that ^^^.

And another couple to show tail ends of quarters. Compare the shapes at top, above the tail panel.

Also note height. The lid is resting on the round flats in the sheetmetal on lid and quarter sides of jamb. No latch or rubber is present and I don't know if a spoiler will be used.

Not much, Phil. Welding up the overlapped edges at roof seams first.