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Originally Posted by crestronwizard (Post 627824)

Sad day in my household. Those that have followed my build since the beginning know that I went out and purchased this car as a project to busy myself after my father passed from cancer. His twin brother, my uncle Wally, went with me when I got the project and has encouraged me the whole build. I had planned for him to come up next month and take the first ride.

On January 4th he was hit head on by a driver going the wrong way down Interstate 295 in Jacksonville, Fla. He passed away on the 8th. His entire adult life was dedicated to helping others, from being a medic in Vietnam to running the tissue donor bank (he was returning from performing a case), he always had a good joke to tell and tried to help whenever possible. Life is short, make the best of it and if you're out drinking and having a good time.........think about this post and take a cab home.

so sorry to hear that. Life is short, and precious.

On another note, i just saw/noticed your build. Love it. the car, the lines, the color selections etc....cant' wait to see it done. Very nice!!1

Sorry to hear about your uncle. It's never easy and when it's something as irresponsible as a drunk driver it almost makes it worse.

The car is looking great and I'm sure they'd both be proud of what you've done.

:thumbsup:

Sorry to hear about your uncles passing. My cousin went with me to Nebraska to get my wife's project a few years ago. He passed away 6 months later. I will always remember the time spent on the road with him and the talks/fun we had during that trip.

His wife later told me he cherished the time and had a great time. I'm sure your uncle had a great time and enjoyed every minute spending it with you.

God bless you and your family!

Jay

Sorry to hear about your uncle. You're right, life is short. Too bad he did not have a chance to ride in the Mustang, which is turning out killer.

Very sorry to hear this sad news. Such a needless tragedy. I haven't had a drink for almost 32 years now... and I'm always the DD in our "group". As we've all aged - my friends are responsible enough now to start to drink water an hour or more before they know they're hitting the road. So there is "improvement" on drunk driving, just not enough.

Both our kids have our Uber account so they can use that when they need it - and I know they do use it!

Thank you everyone

Made my way to the interior shop today. Snapped some pics of the door. Coming together nicely.

http://cdn-3-service.phanfare.com/im...563500dce3e4_1

http://cdn-3-service.phanfare.com/im...bf1fcdfd58d0_1

My condolences on your Uncle. Sounds like a great guy.

Interior looks killer.

I"ve struggled with the doors on these cars, I can't use the aftermarket full door panels that are sold because the roll bar hits the extended arm rest, and its way down on the project list to build one myself, but the bare metal part of the door always bothered me - I never thought of just upholstering the metal directly and then using a somewhat standard inner panel, great stuff there.

But beyond that the panel looks positively Bentley-ish. Was never really sure how a speaker would fit in there either, that's pretty amazing.

Do you have a picture of the inner door metal before mounting the speaker baffle ? I"m curious how much of a hole you cut there.

BTW, I'm a big mobile audio guy, can you detail out your system for us ?

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Originally Posted by preston (Post 629387)

TY. I used to do 12 volt audio for a living back in the 90's. To answer your questions:

Not too big a hole. Just slightly bigger than the magnet. It sits about an eighth inch away from the window frame. I was going to use waveguides to begin with but went away from that because of space concerns and making it look right. So, I am running a JL C5 3-way setup in the front. It's a 6 1/2 in the door and a 4 in and tweeter in the kickpanel. They get ran off of a JL HD600/4 which I ended up bridging to two channels. The subs are JL 13TW5v2-2 13" shallow mount subwoofers. They get driven by a JL HD1200/1. I used a Pioneer headunit that's mounted in the trunk. I control it with the Crestron system and will mostly just bluetooth to it. I am signed up for the Goodguys show in April (Raleigh, NC) and hopefully it will be all done :).