The cage was an interesting hold up. Guy I used to consider a friend and helped out for nearly 3 years, bought him a bender, he said he'd help on a cage and some other stuff, instead he never fullfilled his end of earning the bender, took it, and yeah. The reason for the paint before cage is over the years I've learned once the cage is in it's near-impossible to get to some areas, so I just paint twice now. Once before cage, and that gets all beat up and scratched, BUT gives you a base coat anywhere you can't get to very well, then a final painting after cage is in. Plan on rocking white interior mostly, haven't figured out what I wanna do on the floorboards, red cage covered in American Flag stickers everywhere that wouldn't make a tech inspector angry, red seats, etc. Basically all red/white on the interior, and blue paint on the outside. I do love me some red/white/blue.
One my Florida buddies just moved here with me, and we're tag-teaming the shop. I can do light fab work, but I just never have the patience to do cages, and he's rocking and rolling on it.
I'm gonna try to post here more now that something is actually happening other than me being ticked off about it, haha.
We're aiming to have the car rolling, painted, and hopefully running within 50 days :yikes: Car will make its 100% complete debut at Holley's LS Fest, which is INSANE fun, YOU SHOULD GO!!!
And we'll have it doing parking patrol at Formula Drift Las Vegas from what I understand if that doesn't fall through.
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You can follow progress along also here:
facebook.com/theawesomeshop
facebook.com/mikespeeddrift/
For once on this build, I'm pretty excited!!