We started putting the car back together and found out we had put things where we couldn't remember where put things. If you ever rebuild a car no matter how good your memory is you tend to forget. We got and 1800cc engine from our friend Jim Blett the Volvo expert who happens to own Swedish Car Service . He happened to throw in a free Volvo 122 with the engine all we had to do was remove the engine. Jim did the rebuild on the engine and it was one hell of a terrific job. Tom and I wore surgeons outfits while we did this mainly for laughs and Tom's son in law Sean got them for us. We got the disc brake parts engine and tranny from the 122. Jim Blett helped us with the conversion from drum to disc brakes. One of our salesmen from where I work gave me a couple of Grammer air ride truck seats he had . We really appreciated these during the La Carrera they were locked down during the speed sections and while in transit we had the most comfortable car that was there. You tend to take quite a beating in the car all day and these seats proved to be real well worth having in the car. We had Pat Chapman recover the seats for us they looked really good . The fenders needed to be fixed and Yorge Da Velder did one hell of a job. We must have gone through 3 spools of wire welding the car. I think Tom got fleet price on the gas. The only way we could have done all the work to the car was to do the work ourselves and have Jim Blett to help steer us in the right direction.
2 comments:
Oh George, I have two questions for you guys... First is, How much did the guy on EBay pay you guys to take his Volvo? And secondly, what's with the doctor's operating outfits? Is that supposed to make you two dudes look like "Smooth Operators?" LOL.
The truth is I love it and I have been asked the same question about how much I was paid to take my Shelby off someone else's hands. It just goes to prove we must be from the same mental ward.
How much more rewarding can life be that to take some old piece of rusted out junk, begin working and loving it until you actually breath air into it's very soul causing it to come to life. And if that isn't enough of a rush, you hop into it, take it to some country south of the border where the men and dogs don't get rabies shots and everything else that doesn't sting, stab, bite or spit on you just might kill you and drive it for all she's worth and make it home alive. Then what do you do... HEY LET'S DO IT AGAIN!
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Gary the doctor's outfits were from Tom's daughter when we were taking the engine we used from the Volvo 122 it was a transplant. It is truly amazing how bad a rust bucket the car was once we started taking it apart. All the bad spots were replaced with new steel . People who are not into cars just don't understand this kind of project it is either a labor of love or just plain stupidity. I think we fall into both of them. It looks like your car is coming along well I saw the pictures sunday night.
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