Friday, February 24, 2017

Prepping and Planning

If the weather cooperates and the tires hold air, I’ll be moving old cars this Saturday morning with the help of family. Between now and then, I need to make sure the all the stuff that’s in the way is moved. That includes boards, car-top carrier, and homemade sandblast cabinet that are piled on top of the car; the wheels sitting on the hood; and the partial Corvair front end, wheelbarrow, garden-cart, and compost drum blocking the car’s pathway to freedom.

Last weekend the lovely Loriann and I tore out the cabinets from our old kitchen. Since we plan on re-using some of them, they went into the garage for temporary, safe storage. Now I don’t have room for the LeMans, so Plan B is being implemented. The new plan has the LeMans taking up residence in the portable garage – front end facing out. The Corvair will go back where the LeMans came from – buried and forgotten until the LeMans is done. For the time being, the garage will be used as a rebuild area. Starting with the engine and transmission and moving to fenders, hood, doors and trunk-lid. As pieces get finished, they’ll be protected and stored in a corner.

For years I’ve been watching, with great enjoyment, YouTube videos of regular people working on their cars, and I’ve decided I’d like to try my hand at creating a video documentary of the working on the LeMans. I’ve bought a tripod and am trying to figure out how to connect my Handycam to a computer or tablet. Two cameras (Handycam and phone) seem to be a good way to go. We’ll see how that experiment goes.

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