Here she is......

The dog has found some shade!

Paint Your Wagon.........

The deed is done. The car is painted. 15 large later I have a Ferrari Red Birkin. No pics as yet as the paint shop has not delivered it but I did have a sneak preview and she looks gorgeous. The builders are still busy renovating the house so the car for the meantime will stay at the paint shop. I will bring it back as soon as they are out of my hair and things get back to normal.

Also on the agenda is wrapping the exhaust headers with DEI Titanium fabric which will add a couple of ponies and keep both the engine and the engine bay cool. The stuff is a gunmetal grey so that fits in with the overall colour scheme.

Getting going again...

It has been a 5 month delay but over the weekend I prepped the car for spraypainting. I removed all the loose bits 'n' pieces lying in the car and taped up all the open holes on the engine.

Also realised why the 5 month break was necessary - it was hot!

Got her off the stands singlehanded (my G-d it is a low car) using the crane.

Yesterday my pal arrives with the trailer and we take the car to PPRust Panelbeaters.

Colour: Rosso Corsa. For the cognoscenti among us - Ferrari Red.

It will take about a month.

Now to sell my children for medical experiments.......!

Some Movement at Last!!!

The past 2 months I have been stalled looking for a reasonable quote on spray painting the car. It seems I have at last found someone prepared to do it for less than a kidney transplant.

The only hurdle is getting the car loaded and taken to Jo'burg. And they can only do it in January. So my start date has been put out to February.

Still no Progress........

Well y'all must be wondering what further stuff I have managed to do since I got back from Bots.
To be honest, nothing, what with shooting competitions, trips to the Cape, visiting the kids etc etc. every weekend has been chock-full of activity but nothing to do with car building.

The other factor is of course the spraypainting. I have got to the stage where if I put anything on the car I am going to have to remove it if I wanta decent job done. This last weekend of the 24/25th November a buddy has hooked me up with a quality painter who can do the job for less than R10K. My next best quote was R19K - a significant gap!!!!

So let's see how this pans out.....

Stuck in Botswana

Anyone following this blog will have noticed that I've not been active for a couple of weeks. The reason is simple - I have taken 2 weeks off from my normal D2D grind and been busy working in Botswana as part of an Operational Review team at Debswana's Orapa Diamond Mine.

I have basically finished all I can do to the car prior to painting, so when I get back my first move will be to get her to the wheel alignment shop and then the paintshop.

Round up.....

There are a lot of small things going on, not enough to warrant a post all their own, but enough that they should get mention somewhere.

First, I got the rear brake disks. Those were fitted with a minimum of fuss. So now the car can be lowered. But that is not going to happen just yet.

The essential hoses for the cooling system are in, only the header tank needs fitting, and for that the scuttle needs fitting. The correct fittings for the water rail are also fitted.

I bought a rivnut gun, and I am busy drilling holes in the scuttle for the washer bottle, header tank and the brake and clutch reservoir bracket.

The spark plugs are fitted.

I am busy replacing every galvanized capscrew with stainless steel ones.

I'll tackle some wiring this Saturday.