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Eric,

Great to hear you're sanding... I don't miss that. Yeah, that's Jim Wanger, I actually met him a couple weeks earlier at his 89 birthday party. Dude is sharp as a tack. It was my second "reliability test" that day, and of course, it rained. That's where the below picture was shot...

Gus, awesome renderings! That'll be one bad ass cruiser.

I'll be struggling with putting the wipers and wiper motor in this weekend. Of course the wiper motor hits the valve cover, so I have to re-engineer the mounting bracket. I wish I would've known that would happen, when I was doing the smoothly plate... I would've tried to relocate the wiper motor to underneath the passenger fender... Gus, take note.

Mike

Jim Wangers is 89? Wow.. And still sharp. I can only hope I age as gracefully.

Hope the car turns out as nice as the renderings. Gonna blow them up to poster size eventually and put them on the garage wall for motivation.

Thanks for the wiper motor tip Mike. Much appreciated. Better to do now with the car apart. I have a set of pretty slick "tall" cast aluminum valve covers that may give me grief with the wiper motor too. Got them from an olds club friend several years ago. Just need a good polishing. They came off of his drag car.
Attached pics below.

Good luck with the firewall mods. Betcha wish Eric lived a little closer....But I'm sure you'll get 'er done one way or another ;) At least you're driving you're baby... Eric I have a ways to go to that point, although he's a lot closer than me.

btw: New set of Strong arms from ridetech on the way. Turns out I was correct... they are too narrow. Should get me back on track. Gonna take a while to get them since they have to built then sent off for powder coating. Will attach pics of the final installation. ridetech is a great company to deal with. They very easily could have said to make them fit, but when they found out that their project '66 chevelle needed the same dimension arms as mine, they (Darren) promised to make me a brandy new set and ship 'em out no charge. Glad I chose RT for my air suspension.

Have a great weekend guys.
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Gus