Good news — my main surgery has been roughly scheduled for the week of March 20th… The bad news is that complicates an event I'm hosting, as well as affecting that “Test the Nation” game show I was supposed to be on… The good news is though that I won't have a reason to be in constant pain after that I hope (although they told me that it could take a while for my brain to clue in that it doesn't hurt any more). I get really tired at the end of the day, so I usually go to bed between ten and eleven, but I wake up between three and four because I guess at that point the “pain vs. exhaustion” equation tips back to where I am in more pain than I am tired, so I wake up.
Anyway… Since I have one wildly dirty vehicle in my garage, I picked up some jack stands so I can level everything out and get the car rolling again. I kind of think I should buy a junker $50 engine and drop it into the car (I pulled the engine out ages ago and put it in my Aztec 7)… it would only take me a weekend to get the car so it can drive again, and I sort of think that might be worth doing just for convenience's sake?
- Clean, clean, clean, clean it!
- Fix and level chassis and suspension so it acts as a solid rolling platform for rebuilding the body.
- Cut off rear deck and rebuild
- Flow body into interior and dash
- Remove current windshield and replace with cardboard template for speedster-style wrap-around.
- Fill in front vents and widen main grill
- Create front and rear inner fenders
- Fill in light pods and replace with smaller lights
- Crop front/outside/lower edge of front fenders and add P4-style wings
- Fill in doors
- Create molds and cast a new body
Yeah, that's only part of it too… I'll start blogging the work either here or on my in-need-of-TLC kitcar blog. Oh, and if anyone has a scrap Beetle engine in the Toronto area they feel like giving away, let me know and I'll bolt it on!
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