| I feel ashamed
not updating my site since last October. I'm still missing the "drive"
and passion that I had until last fall. It may have been the enormous
amount of grinding and sanding ( I hate both) that I went through
during June and July, that exhausted me. But now, my side
business takes all my spare time, and if that wasn't enough, we are
planning to build a new house (and garage, of course), so my interest
is now elsewhere. But what's alarming, I just turned 38 and I feel
getting old. Crawling under the car is not a very temptating thought
anymore. I keep telling myself that once I get that new garage ready, I
will get my "mojo" back. Hopefully. Things are not so bad as it may sound. Since January, I do have done some minor machine work on the Buick, more about that later. But this time, I just went through all my pics from last year, and found a couple that you haven't seen. Enjoy! |
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| Before parking the car for winter, I installed the bumper guards and spreader bar. The bar is actually the original lower bar, mounted upside-down above the bumper. The Guards are radically sectioned originals. The licence plate now resides on a purpose-built frame instead of tie-wraps. The frame is narrower than the plate, as I intend to swap the European Union -style plates for old Finnish style plates w/o the blue section. |
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| Now this is
one of the fender skirts that I formed using my self-made english
wheel. I also purchased a hand-operated shrinker to complement the
english wheel. Boy did it take some practise to accomplish this? You
bet. It almost got the better of me. The panel was formed
to fit over the "skeleton" that I made of bar stock. Once it seemed to
roughly fit the skeleton, it was clamped on and tack welded while
mounted on the car, then finish welded loose. This one seems to fit
nicely, but I screwed up the other side, and I'm still figuring
out what went wrong... I will show you the english wheel in the near future. |