The Fateful Trip to Get Crustina: Revealed!

Here is a link to the photos for the trip I took with my two oldest kids to get Crustina. This was Hatchman's E21 that had suffered a critical incident near the GWB in NYC. We went down there and basically got what we could off of the car before sending her to the Brookline salvage yard nearby. The ironic part was that the longest road to the yard was "Legion Avenue".

Check out the pics.
https://picasaweb.google.com/112683634719093006972/December272011

While the Cat's Away.....

At the risk of my better half reading this I thought I would type out some of what may happen while my understanding and loving wife, who I have been with for nearly 20 years, will be visiting her sister in MD. Since this trip will mean me taking a few days off from my practice I have scheduled a couple of tasks to keep me busy. One of these involves getting the remaining boxes out of the garage and into storage (no honey! I'm not tossing all the stuff collected in the garage!) so I can do item #2 that involves finally getting Trixie home. She needs work and now Pixie needs some TLC (clutch slave cylinder is going!) so a few late-nights in the garage are called for in order to keep things going.

It would be nice to get Trixie running finally so that my wife can enjoy doing donuts in the snow....

****Humor Alert****
Honey, I love you and this was a hopeful but tongue-in-cheek post. But, as you have nicely pointed out my humor is not up to par.... Would I like to do this? Sure. Not if it makes you nervous when you are away. Good point. I don't like the idea of being pinned under the car late at night, alone....

....just don't be surprised if the other car is in the garage though. Just Sayin'.

Clearing out the garage and welding....

I've managed to clear out most of the garage except the stuff we need to "donate". I picked up a used Century 80 welder and tried it out with some success on a wing panel of the E21. I have to up the temp and adjust the wire feed. The next acquisition will be to fabricate a "blasting" cabinet for the parts. No point installing rusted bits on the car, right? So the best way to make sure that the parts are clean and rust free would be to sand blast them and recoat them before install.

I also bought a use air compressor for use in my shop. The twin cylinder job needs some work but it has potential to it!