Friday stuff
Posted by Dr Diecast at 8/1/2008 7:32 AM and is filed under uncategorized 
Well its Friday and a cloudy one to boot. Couple things from yesterday though. One is I spent some 3 hours trying to figure out whats up with my computer. Over the last couple months I have been running on a almost full hard drive and no matter what I delete or move to an external hard drive its still full. Apparently there is something within the system that is sucking the space up. Since I am running at over 39Gig of a 40Gig hard drive there is never enough space to run a defrag nor most of the virus programs available online. Geek Squad at Best Buy wants at least $199.00 to inspect and clean it and $299.00 if they install new virus software. My virus protection was a free be from Comcast cable when I lived in OR. Here I use Qwest DSL and I don't think the protection is working the same since I didn't have a problem till I moved here. Oh well......... guess I will figure something out ...... since I have too at some point. I wont be paying $300 though to fix this, I will toss it first and buy a new one.
So a couple years ago I contracted to do a pro street style 70 Camaro from a guy. Not to radical..... tubbed, cage, built motor.... typical stuff. This project has had various delays.... partly his fault, partly mine but he finally sent me more pictures which arrived yesterday so I was working on that. This involves a chassis swap from another car, cut, trim and fitted to this body.... along with reworking it so the interior bucket will fit and can be finished ok. I had an engine for this car lined up but since the advent of GMP's completely detailed race engines I have decided to shelve the one I had and just use the GMP version. Sadly though I cannot use the great looking GMP Drag Stars on this car as their rims are too small for the tires he wants on the diecast. This leaves me with the Ertl version of a Drag Star which is ok I guess.
One thing I found funny was the paint job and price. He was a Chromalusion Red Fire.. a paint I quoted at $200, LMAO. I must have written this contract after spraying cars back then as there was/is NO WAY I can do that paint job for that price. I will have to re evaluate this and come up with something that works for him and me. He knows he will be paying more then the original $400.00 contract price so it should be ok.
Here is a shot of the car on the bench......not sure how much you can see but its slammed to the ground for the most part.
I did finish pouring the convertible boots for the Chevelles..... I thought I had that done but upon inspection realized I needed to re do 2 of them as they were not quite good enough to put on a car.
Today I am in cutting mode..... so.... its off to cut bodies, hoods, roofs, trunks and whatever else I have lined up for cutting. I need to get to it too...... its gonna be another 110+ degree day here today so I need to cut now to avoid the heat later. See the cutting and grinding is done in a designated area in the garage since it makes so much dust and dirt. That garage gets the scorching afternoon sun so its just no a place you want to be working in the late afternoon.
OK.... Im out !
So a couple years ago I contracted to do a pro street style 70 Camaro from a guy. Not to radical..... tubbed, cage, built motor.... typical stuff. This project has had various delays.... partly his fault, partly mine but he finally sent me more pictures which arrived yesterday so I was working on that. This involves a chassis swap from another car, cut, trim and fitted to this body.... along with reworking it so the interior bucket will fit and can be finished ok. I had an engine for this car lined up but since the advent of GMP's completely detailed race engines I have decided to shelve the one I had and just use the GMP version. Sadly though I cannot use the great looking GMP Drag Stars on this car as their rims are too small for the tires he wants on the diecast. This leaves me with the Ertl version of a Drag Star which is ok I guess.
One thing I found funny was the paint job and price. He was a Chromalusion Red Fire.. a paint I quoted at $200, LMAO. I must have written this contract after spraying cars back then as there was/is NO WAY I can do that paint job for that price. I will have to re evaluate this and come up with something that works for him and me. He knows he will be paying more then the original $400.00 contract price so it should be ok.
Here is a shot of the car on the bench......not sure how much you can see but its slammed to the ground for the most part.
I did finish pouring the convertible boots for the Chevelles..... I thought I had that done but upon inspection realized I needed to re do 2 of them as they were not quite good enough to put on a car.
Today I am in cutting mode..... so.... its off to cut bodies, hoods, roofs, trunks and whatever else I have lined up for cutting. I need to get to it too...... its gonna be another 110+ degree day here today so I need to cut now to avoid the heat later. See the cutting and grinding is done in a designated area in the garage since it makes so much dust and dirt. That garage gets the scorching afternoon sun so its just no a place you want to be working in the late afternoon.
OK.... Im out !
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