From deathbed to roadbed - A rebuild story
#101
Oh, I forgot to include a couple additional pics from some work I did last month. As you know from following the thread, the ABS unit was toast (literally) and it severely mangled all the brake lines. While everything worked without issue and the inner fender liner would have covered them, they were a complete mess. I wanted to get those replaced while I could still remove the fender with relative ease so I ordered the entire spiderweb of lines as a preassembled unit from Jaguar and got those installed and the system bled out.
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#102
Well, hopefully the missus is understanding about the mistress.
I didn't tell mine I was buying one and a week later it took the comment that "If you don't want to talk to me I'll go talk to my mistress" to bring her around. Been with her 21 years now so she should be used to it. Hopefully you'll have similar luck.
I didn't tell mine I was buying one and a week later it took the comment that "If you don't want to talk to me I'll go talk to my mistress" to bring her around. Been with her 21 years now so she should be used to it. Hopefully you'll have similar luck.
I built her baby a couple years ago for her birthday.
...although she does occasionally get emotionally attached when I get rid of one of my projects to move on to something else.
#103
Thanks for all the support guys! I apologize for the hiatus, but with the wedding and then the subsequent honeymoon I simply did not have the time to finish her.
The account reps in the company I work for found out I was going to be gone for 2 full weeks and for the prior 2 months I was travelling Sunday - Friday visiting customers. The week of my wedding I started off in Lexington KY, Houston TX, New Orleans LA, Jackson MS, and made it back home to Birmingham, AL home late Thursday night in time to get everything prepped at the wedding venue on Friday for the Sat wedding.
Oddly enough, I still found time to put 3k miles on her with the mis-colored parts and wrinkled quarter panel just because she was so much fun to drive.
Just in case anyone is interested...I married up ]
The account reps in the company I work for found out I was going to be gone for 2 full weeks and for the prior 2 months I was travelling Sunday - Friday visiting customers. The week of my wedding I started off in Lexington KY, Houston TX, New Orleans LA, Jackson MS, and made it back home to Birmingham, AL home late Thursday night in time to get everything prepped at the wedding venue on Friday for the Sat wedding.
Oddly enough, I still found time to put 3k miles on her with the mis-colored parts and wrinkled quarter panel just because she was so much fun to drive.
Just in case anyone is interested...I married up ]
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#111
I will eventually let this one go for somewhere around wholesale/trade-in ($45k) but I want the new buyer to know he is getting a good vehicle for a good price.
#113
LOL...Years ago when I was first getting started I restored 3 different Porsche 928's but they were not physically damaged, they were just neglected. The last one was a Euro and I sold it before I finished it never to look back. However, many Porsche guys even refuse to include the 928 in their little club, so I have since wised up/grown up and moved on to much more desireable projects.
#118
Oh, I am definitely putting miles on her, and it will be fall before I consider letting her go or putting her on the market with a price...but I first have to locate a rebuildable R AWD...
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