Thread: Work junk, and junk... at work. By 'junk.

Please tell me you did this while walking away:

Wow, how'd you guess? That was it exactly and I had just had my hair did that same style! Snap.

OK no more tranny (?) gifs please boobs, that last one is unsettling lol.

Caught a snake in the parking lot, man does that thing have a racy idle wow.



I'm past the air intake now, at least its in primer. Hood and scoop are grey but no pic. They are working on the graphics process (bird n script) on those. Starting on this core support filler panel now. Also prepped the window moldings for flat black today. On the Firebird build. Soon I'll be on to other projects. These pics suck but the parts should look nice enough. Dunno if you can see it but theres an arrowhead relief in the top piece. That was all made from flat steel and a little tubing, but not by me. Quite the project that must have been!

Looking at that silver Cobra, you can see where the body was broken a little at the grille opening. I might be the one fixing that later.

The Trans Am will be back soon, probably by next week. I saw pics of the new interior... it looks good. Like a new car, you'll see. Has two chromy cupholders in the console, and all red stitching on charcoal upholstered low back bucket seats. The wood rimmed mock up steering wheel is still in it messing up the look, I haven't seen the actual wheel to be used yet.

Heres some process / progress shots of the fabricated core support-to-bumper filler panel. It had been sitting neglected for awhile but never fear, I can sand.

After making and fitting then sitting:



Hey, that looks a lot different after some hammer and dolly work and a cleanup sanding:







Epoxy primer lets me start to see the smaller imperfections:





This is where I'm at now. Since I wanted the filler to follow that delicate contour closely...

On the first layer I used Rage Gold with about 30% Metal Glaze mixed in. Applied with spreader. The two products are mixable per manufacturer, and this helps flow of the wet filler coat plus pinholes a little less. Second layer was approximately 60% Metal Glaze and 40% Rage Gold, applied with a spreader and brush. I'm getting there but final shaping that panel is a challenge.



Here is the stencil being applied for the first color layer of the hood bird. The hood has it's grey color and clearcoat already but is dull because of the fine sanding needed to make the graphic and additional clear coats stick.



One of these days, I'll catch this truck in good light. It sure is a looker!

mmmm sexy oh sry i was talking about the cars....

I certainly hope so! Next week its gonna be time to start finishing that car... THEN she'll be real sexy.

then you can trailer that bishhhh up and send it me.

idk how you guys build such cool cars and then let them leave the building lol id be like im keeping this one, oh, and this one too lol

thats the bosses job. its good to be the boss

Some stick around awhile. That GTO is still chillin with us, being marketed and kept shiny. Personally, heck I'll be doing good to keep the 455 car going and trailers are for boats anyway.

the trailer was for transporting it to my house damn it. (ill send the driver)

then it would driven on the nicest of days. losing rear tire rubber every time it fired up lol

Now yer talkin! I do a lot of putting around back roads gently, but only so I can have that one clear opportunity to stand on the gas and let er eat redline one good time. Its a must! I'm addicted to the five grand 1-2 chirp as is. When I start to think about what I would build for myself, I have to put the brakes on that fantasy. Any of these others would be fun to have but sell off so I could do that. Or keep, if you're Scotty. One for each day of the week would be plenty, right?

you need one to drive to work then when you go to lunch you get a different car to take to lunch then you take a third car home.

i did work on eddie murphys house in alpine NJ aka bubble hill.

he had a 7 or 8 car garage. nothing from the muscle car world, but all nice new luxury/sport cars. i was like one for everyday of the week for sure lol

and he hardly spent time there. (thats what his mom said any ways, nice lady)

remember a movie called Another 48 hours? my dad and his company was involved with that film. One day when Eddie Murphy showed up early he ordered 1 of everything from mcdonalds then when it arrived cold he then was yelling about how long it took and how the food was cold. my general impression of him is this. A stuck up asshole who think the world is just given to him. the one thing i know is that the world dont care who you are your just another person nothing more nothing less.

Originally Posted by ericspecullaas

you need one to drive to work then when you go to lunch you get a different car to take to lunch then you take a third car home.

I could do this now... if I replace one wheel bearing lol. It was kinda cool for a little while I had the loud one at the shop and used it at lunch. But I REALLY missed it on the weekends when it wasn't at the house.

Originally Posted by ScottyDoggs

i did work on eddie murphys house in alpine NJ aka bubble hill.

he had a 7 or 8 car garage. nothing from the muscle car world, but all nice new luxury/sport cars. i was like one for everyday of the week for sure lol

and he hardly spent time there. (thats what his mom said any ways, nice lady)

Did you meet Aunt Bunny and did she throw a shoe at any point? Ha, that was him wasn't it? I bet there were fast ones in that stable. If I built one from the ground up for myself it would look like a 1930s car (maybe truck). I'd like nothing more than to buy a pair of prefab frame rails and fab my ride from there up. But I'll always want my big GP too.

Originally Posted by ericspecullaas

remember a movie called Another 48 hours? my dad and his company was involved with that film. One day when Eddie Murphy showed up early he ordered 1 of everything from mcdonalds then when it arrived cold he then was yelling about how long it took and how the food was cold. my general impression of him is this. A stuck up asshole who think the world is just given to him. the one thing i know is that the world dont care who you are your just another person nothing more nothing less.

i said his mom was nice. i never met him lol

worked on joe piscopo's house too, and his moms house. his mom was nice, never met joe either. just the moms lol

i know what you said but i know first hand how he is lol. but if you look at his him now all the work he can get is kids movies lol. go figure some wantabe action guy turned into a kids dad lol

Originally Posted by ericspecullaas

remember a movie called Another 48 hours? my dad and his company was involved with that film. One day when Eddie Murphy showed up early he ordered 1 of everything from mcdonalds then when it arrived cold he then was yelling about how long it took and how the food was cold. my general impression of him is this. A stuck up asshole who think the world is just given to him. the one thing i know is that the world dont care who you are your just another person nothing more nothing less.

Hollywood roles are about as representational of actual personalities as the TV representation of presidents, ain't they? I know a guy in Burbank who used to work at a place where they fixed Caddys like you-all's. Seems to know quite a bit about them. We have one of those flatheads at the shop, I dig how the exhaust comes out the top and the radiator has like window blinds in front of it.

Originally Posted by ScottyDoggs

i said his mom was nice. i never met him lol

worked on joe piscopo's house too, and his moms house. his mom was nice, never met joe either. just the moms lol

Coug huntin lol