Despite having a BAD case of the "while I'm in theres", something is FINALLY done on my car: Freshly powder coated trumpets. Some before and after shots. Ignore the black tape on the neck of the one finished horn. Just temporary while I scrape of a few mm's of red coating from the threads. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Nice. You're doing so many little things with this car, I don't remember a general status on your car. Have you shown us the entire car? OK, I noticed a few pics on your profile. Are you going to get into some concours-ing with this or just like making it the way it started? I kinda like making things original unless it's something I want to not! P.S.- you're giving away the location of your secret lair by revealing that the bookcase is actually a door (showing the back side of the books).
Ok a few things come to mind.. First is they look great! Second is, how did you get the dent/bend out, using ball bearings or a smoothed rod? Third, have you considered if the extra weight/thickness/whatever of powdercoating over the anodizing/painting of the original will cause sound deadening? .. Please don't take this personally, I just notice some little things.. like the Mone Lisa. still could use *just* a little work... ;-) Lester
DEF not entering any Concourse competitions. When I am working on my rad/fans/coolant pipes/whateverelseIcanfindunderthehood, and I see the trumpets in that condition, I am going to yank up, clean em, and make them look puuuurdy. You still don't know what book to pull to get into the lair...
Thanks! A lot of patience and a lot of various "tools" sitting around. Mostly, smoothed out rod, varying in thickness. I had not considered this. I have a second set I will test against. and see if there any difference. I always appreciate some higher education. "You can't always be the 'smartest' guy in the room; you'll never learn anything." - my dad
From my dad....."there will always be those dullards that look at the thing and say 'my isn't that interesting' and not have a f-ing clue as to what they are looking at"
