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Old 04-17-2014, 09:12 PM   #7
Robert Swartz
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Originally Posted by Joe Toller View Post
Keep it up! Looking good! I have only had spontaneous times to work, I am wishing I could build an actual garage I can fit a car in, vs the hobby shop/carport combo I have. Montana is trying to have all four seasons every week, so until that settles, I'm stuck here.
Well Joe, I think the weather here in Indiana is (finally) about to break. I couldn't go back to working without a garage. I kind of went thru that a little last year. I was working on the FWD Olds out in the driveway. Too much stuff in the garage.

I'm a little bit that way now. As you'll see from the picture, have a push mower, rototiller and still have the snowblower in the garage. It needs to go to the barn and the other two need serviced. Yard will need mown and wife wants her vegetable garden dug up. The chores of summer, ugh.

I now have the front tires on the Mustang. A set of 28" tall Mickey Thompson's. That I've had for 4-5 years. They've never been down the road or track. Mostly used for placeholders or set up tires. Like the rears they clear everything. Finally they get used for something.

Also found a nasty hole. The battery box was gone. It had been replaced with a license plate? I'll spend some time on it and make some kind of box. It will also need brakes and rotors, the passenger side looked pretty grim. Now it's down to doing some simple things to just get it ready to take to the track.
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