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Originally Posted by tones2SS
That looks great for a painting. Very nice.
Is your wife enjoying the hot rod?
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We left it at Brizio's on our way back up the coast from LA. The Seat needed to be completely re-done in order to fit Gwen. She's taller than I am - and her height is considerably longer from the waist down -- and we just didn't guess close enough to what the seat needed to be to fit her. So it went back over to Sid Chavers today as a matter of fact - and he'll make the seat over. Then we also are going to replace the steering box. The steering was heavy and didn't have the "return to center" that it should have. Roy and I had discussed this before the LA trip and I had asked him just to leave it alone and let me put some more miles on the car before they went to the effort to R&R it -- and of course it's painted etc. But after putting on 1000 miles -- it never felt any better. He had an original Vega box - and was having that completely rebuilt before installing it. Seems they've been having the same issues with the manufactured versions as this isn't the first goat rodeo with these new boxes. They probably all come out of the same Chinese factory.
I'll pick the car up on September 1st when I head that direction for the Shelby Club Mini-Nat track event at Sonoma. And if all is right with the world I'll haul it back to Sun Valley.
Then at the end of September - we're signed up to drive it on the Good-Guys Haul (the way they should have spelled it!) of Fame Road Tour from Pleasanton California to Fort Worth Texas.
https://www.good-guys.com/goodguys-road-tour
At that time there is a stop planned in Colorado @ Pinkee's Rod Shop where my '40 Ford pickup should be sitting on it's freshly built Roadster Shop chassis.
http://pinkeesrodshop.com