Soooooo...... I FINALLY got it back on the road last night. Had my girlfriend with me and she took a couple videos with her new phone. I'll have to see if I can get them transferred from her FB page for your viewing pleasure.
Before all of that, though, we went to the Caffeine and Octane show at the Town Center mall in Kennesaw where I ran into MORE inspiration to finally get it back on the road....
I was geeking out too much to take a good picture. In fact, I didn't even take these, my girlfriend did - that's yours truly looking in the passenger side T top. I spoke with the owner for a little while and asked him if he comes to this show often as I didn't see it last month, he said he does. He also said what we all say, that he's almost always the only one at any show. So I asked him if he wanted to meet up for the next one and I'd bring mine. We exchanged numbers and I'll try to get a hold of him next month to see about getting *2* IIs at the next one! Side note - the green F series next to him is his son's.
Anyway, later on, after confirming that I indeed had the wiring bug worked out, we jumped in the Cobra and went back to her house to see if her son would be interested in it. He went for a ride with me and took some pics and/or video while I drove. I asked him on a couple occasions if he wanted me to get on it and he didn't, he said he didn't feel safe. In his defense, I don't think he's ever ridden in anything older than 2000, but I assured him we wouldn't do anything that would harm anything - i.e. I wasn't going to do anything in traffic or anywhere populated, and I told him that you just have to be aware of your surroundings and that I definitely wouldn't do anything where I didn't think I could maintain control. So I didn't do anything with him in the car except hit the brakes kinda hard for a red light that was hard to see because of the setting sun. When I got him back home and my girlfriend was getting back in he told her to not let me do anything unsafe....
I'll see about getting at least one video up. One was when we were on our way back to my house after taking him out and she wanted me to find a more hospitable section of road with little to no traffic.
No, that's the same style, just has a King Cobra style air dam and wheel spats. And I'd guess that his front end sits at roughly a stock height. I lowered mine by cutting about a coil - coil and a half from the front springs. That recessed my front tires enough that I had to keep something of a stock width (175) in the front. If I'd have gone with a wheel that was wider I'd have run into clearance issues either at the fender or somewhere in the wheel well. As it sits now with 165/75-15s I had to bend a body seam 90 degrees otherwise the tire would rub there at a lock to lock turn. I suppose if I were to raise the front end back up I could go with a wider tire, but then I'd also probably want to reinstall a power rack and pinion and go down another rabbit hole....
Anyway, took it to the Caffeine and Octane show in Kennesaw today and I wasn't the only II in attendance!
And I don't know if this will work, but my girlfriend shot a short video as we were leaving....