Deconstruction FINALLY Begins!

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I'm sure you'll find something and besides the great outdoors is nice

[JR]

wow, been forever since I even thought about this thread. Dad's shop is finished...sad to admit, I didn't help as much as I should have. Anyway, everything just needs to be put in place (shelves and such for his stuff) before I can start working on the car again. Him and mom are going camping this weekend, leaving the girls and myself to house alone. Saturday is supposed to be a wonderful day to play outside, which will also be an excellent day for me to get the shop put together. I just have to check a couple things over before dad leaves tomorrow, make sure it's alrite where I want to put a few things, and if all goes well...the shop should be ready (or at least 90%) ready to get back at it. *fingers crossed* I'm gonna have a place to store all the stuff that had had to be kept in the car so I don't have to move it all the time, which will make starting and finishing work on it whenever I want a lot easier. I'm sorta hyped about it, a little worried about when it comes to being ready for paint and costs...but that's all part of the journey. Good luck to me

P.S. hopefully I'll be able to steal the ex's digi cam from time to time and upload some pics on her computer so everyone can see.

edit: talked to my dad tonite...unfortunately he doesn't have his shelves up (which he built and I don't know where he wants them or how to secure them properly) so I can't organize his stuff. But I can move a lot of the stuff stored in the car to a new spot, out of the way. I can also sort thru his stuff, and organize it a little better so it's no so sprawled out over the floor. tomorrow's project.

[JR]

well "tomorrow's project" finally occured tonite...mostly everything I want stored outta the way, is put away - little more difficult than I expected with two snowmobiles parked right in my way and no easy was to move them. Found all my car cleaning supplies too and some other stuff I didn't know I had (like a can of brake cleaner), which was a bonus. Tomorrow's plan...work, fishin, than finish getting everything setup so I can start back at 'er.

[JR]

hm...procrastination is my goal in life, and I seem to do quite well at it. I'm also good at making excuses apparently (because my dad still has his stuff laying all over the place, with no shelves, in my way lol)
well, roughly 8 hours of labour with a crappy palm sander, I have the drivers door and quarter done to the roof (except for the bottom that will have the grinder used on it) and the passenger side door and quarter is 95% done (I'll finish them this weekend)...I finally got rid of all the fucking bondo slathered in there.

the drivers side is really straight, and the passenger side is not as bad as the amount of bondo made it look...still quite a bit of work, but ah well. Taking it one step at a time this time, so I don't get overwhelmed with what's ahead of me.

Luckily most of the surprises should be done, and sanding should be fairly easy going now. Just gonna save a little for some sheet metal, and some heavier metal, work on the body, and get it primered. Depending on how things go financially, I may even have it painted by next spring.

After that I'll figure out the next step. Unfortunately I don't have the right tools to get any pics to post, but I'll be sure to at least get some pictures the good old film way.