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| Months of waiting for this day |
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| The covers are off |
With the engine seemingly out of the way, even though I have an number of things to iron out on the chassis, especially with the brakes, I have begun to look at the body and contemplate my path forward into the world of sheet metal.
In a way, it's what I have looked forward to since I bought the car, but it's also the area about which I know the least, so it's at least a little daunting.
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| Ready to roll back |
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| All the musclemen are in place |
One thing that has been troubling me of late has been the condition of the wooden dolly that the body's been resting on for over two years. It wasn't really made to last, and by this time it was getting pretty darn rickety. So, I decided that the next step would be to take the body off the dolly and put it back on the frame. For one thing, doing this would allow me to see if it would actually fit. For another, it would give me a place to put the body while I rebuilt the frame.
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| Ready, set, lift! |
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| It's on and it fits! |
So, just over two years after we lifted it off for the first time, we put it back on. I enlisted the help of some strong-armed friends--Dan, Tom, Steve and our neighbor Derek--to help me with the deed. I actually had six guys here to help with the lift off, but this time I figured we could do the job with just four. Plus we had Maddie and Valery there to help move the dolly and I was there to supervise and make sure it lined up as we set it down.
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| It looks like a real car |
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| But looks can be deceiving |
First I rolled the body forward to take off all the tarps and covers. Then we moved the body back over the chassis with two guys on each side. Then it was a pretty easy lift and lower. Although I had made plans in case it didn't fit, we never needed 'Plan B'. It fit the first time and nothing was out of place.
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| Someday soon it will run! |
