Build Thread Want To Blow 5 Years And $50k On A Foxbody? Step By Step Instructions Inside!
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I realized it actually had a tag showing how to fold it up. duh. Basically said to fold it up towards the center of the car so it becomes almost like a racing stripe down the whole length of the car, then fold it from each end until it sits like a nice square on the top of the roof. Works for me!
It's just one more night on the street corner.The trans alone, took you a week.
You must not know what kind of street corner prices I'm capable of. The trans took about 2 nights worth. A week? Please...
Ok Scott, I know this is an old post, but I've been reading through this.....I must be sick.....I want to do this to my blue car, I almost feel like I should now.Shot the top coat this weekend. Nothing but some simple Eastwood Chassis Black paint. I also hit the subframe connectors with some hammered texture paint. That will be the same finish on the roll bar inside the car.
I'll be spraying the bedliner by the weekend, weather permitting.
How fun to be able to do this much work to a car and not be overly worried about a timetable. I'm jealous, yet happy you were able to do so much. Good job brother.
Only time will tell if you made me a psychotic padawan of yours or not.
Awww Strawberry, you on another one of your Vietnam trips man?
Stop reading other peoples threads Dave, you'll have bad dreams. Especially one from the lifestyles of the rich and famous like this one.
(I mean everybody can have "Champagne wishes, and caviar dreams", but you and I drink beer and whiskey)
I used to think that I could build a similar car to this guy but gave up on that 3 years ago. (when I started).
Nobody,....(let me repeat that) Nobody, has the sphincter muscles that Scott has. He get's that from all of the iso-exercises he does every single time he get's out a tool to start doing something to the "overly anal" perfection that his car is.
Look at it this way, put into context.
In the late 1400's there were several renaissance painters that could be could be called "Masters". Plenty of guys painting fat baby cherubs hanging around equally fat assed bit ches all with last names ending in the letter "a","i", and "o". Matter of fact, Wikipedia lists like 20 of those guys whose paintings are hanging in some gallery in Europe right now.
Now consider for every "Master," there were probably another 100 or so that did really great stuff that never got seen because they lacked the right tools, didn't have the funds, the facility, or they simply didn't know whose salad needed tossing.
And out of all those guys during that time there was only one Michaelangelo.
One guy, committed to laying on his back, painting his masterpiece for... (segway to similarity here) 4 years!
So, bringing it back around,......we, as mere mortals, can attempt to copy Scott, but there'll never be a build on the same level. It's similar to another comment I made somewhere back before the Monster was even a gleam in my eye.
Scott is a brain surgeon,......I'm a guy with a headache and a butter knife.
Reach for the stars Dave, but keep your feet firmly planted on the ground. I still have a Sistine chapel I need painted.
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Yeah Mike, I knew I was losing grip with reality when I saw the pictures of the car turned on its side with a home made rotisserie. Then followed these beautiful pictures of the undercarriage stripped, painted black, and the part where Rod Serling stepped out and seam sealed the whole undercarriage and started talking to me how this is what I should do with my blue car when I step into the Twilight Zone....Awww Strawberry, you on another one of your Vietnam trips man?
Stop reading other peoples threads Dave, you'll have bad dreams. Especially one from the lifestyles of the rich and famous like this one.
(I mean everybody can have "Champagne wishes, and caviar dreams", but you and I drink beer and whiskey)
I used to think that I could build a similar car to this guy but gave up on that 3 years ago. (when I started).
Nobody,....(let me repeat that) Nobody, has the sphincter muscles that Scott has. He get's that from all of the iso-exercises he does every single time he get's out a tool to start doing something to the "overly anal" perfection that his car is.
Look at it this way, put into context.
In the late 1400's there were several renaissance painters that could be could be called "Masters". Plenty of guys painting fat baby cherubs hanging around equally fat assed bit ches all with last names ending in the letter "a","i", and "o". Matter of fact, Wikipedia lists like 20 of those guys whose paintings are hanging in some gallery in Europe right now.
Now consider for every "Master," there were probably another 100 or so that did really great stuff that never got seen because they lacked the right tools, didn't have the funds, the facility, or they simply didn't know whose salad needed tossing.
And out of all those guys during that time there was only one Michaelangelo.
One guy, committed to laying on his back, painting his masterpiece for... (segway to similarity here) 4 years!
So, bringing it back around,......we, as mere mortals, can attempt to copy Scott, but there'll never be a build on the same level. It's similar to another comment I made somewhere back before the Monster was even a gleam in my eye.
Scott is a brain surgeon,......I'm a guy with a headache and a butter knife.
Reach for the stars Dave, but keep your feet firmly planted on the ground. I still have a Sistine chapel I need painted.
Now, this is when this waking dream starting really getting crazy, not only did Mr. Serling paint the undercarriage black and seam seal it, he also coated it again with bed liner and painted the SFCs a grey color!
I should have known that none of that could be real....
Scott makes me feel ashamed to say I'm anal.
But what a freaking nice car you have Scott. Mike's right, I'll never match this car. That's ok though brother, I sure enjoy seeing what you did with yours.
Man, the two of you guys sure have quite an eloquent way of dishing out compliments. I appreciate the kind words! Dave, you should probably be the co-author for Mike's book. Whatever it may be called and whenever it may be written, but he surely needs to write something one of these days. If he wrote a few pages every time he re-did the design on that hood, he would have quite the novel by now! 
Believe me when I say that I'm surprised that you haven't change it already.
He's being merciful Mike. it's a word in the dictionary, look it up....
Huh!,....You just think he's being merciful. He's a Ct ninja. One minute you're asleep, the next minute......
HeeeYah!! Perma-Btch slapped with some dumb assed statement you made a month ago.
Yeeeaaaahhhhh, I think I understand that.......Huh!,....You just think he's being merciful. He's a Ct ninja. One minute you're asleep, the next minute......
HeeeYah!! Perma-Btch slapped with some dumb assed statement you made a month ago.
Ok Scott, I did it, I read your entire post finally. Why do I feel so tired?
Beautiful car brother, why is it you haven't been plastered on a couple magazines yet?
You need to get married and have several children and have a hungry wife to feed so you can feel the longing desires to do what you have done by poor chumps like me!
Really impressive though, man! Some of the changes you have gone through during the years of this build! Maintaining sanity when you have completely redone what I already thought was awesome in the first place must have been a bit "challenging" to you.
Beautiful car brother, why is it you haven't been plastered on a couple magazines yet?
You need to get married and have several children and have a hungry wife to feed so you can feel the longing desires to do what you have done by poor chumps like me!
Really impressive though, man! Some of the changes you have gone through during the years of this build! Maintaining sanity when you have completely redone what I already thought was awesome in the first place must have been a bit "challenging" to you.
Uhh,...because you spent the last two days reading a build thread?
Because he hasn't put himself in front of the magazine? (you gotta go to where they are,...they don't come to you) Well,.....unless you live in L.A.......Then they're right next door.
I agree.
I agree.
Thanks Dave. I'm glad you were finally able to trudge through the whole thing! The hardest pill to swallow was the reality that the cylinder walls were shot from washing them down with fuel. Taking that new engine out for a rebuild was not exactly a time of smiles and cheers. The other tweaks and changes were a part of the learning process for me. If I wasn't 100% in love with something I did on the car, it would gnaw at me until I was forced to make it "right". There are a few more tweaks already in the making as we speak.
Some magazine stuff is in the works. To say it's a slow process would be an understatement.
I'll be at Mustang Week with the car this year. Made the last minute decision to go. I'm not registered for the judged show, but I'm planning to get on the wait list when I get down there. Two weeks after Mustang Week, I'll be tying the knot. I promised her that the next build will be a Factory Five Cobra. That's all she asks of me... build that Cobra for her to drive. I've got it pretty good!
