There was
still a little work to do on the quarter windows to make the surface the glass rests against
flat and the windshield posts needed a little work to make them fit perfectly. It was looking
real good. This is what it looked like at the end of the day Saturday.
Sunday: We went to church, then did
a little shopping and had lunch (love them In-N-Out double-doubles) before getting to the
shop at about 2:00pm. A little more fitting and grinding around the windows was done and we got
the window frames cut welded ground and polished. Before putting the seat back in and the
trunklid back on, I threw a milk crate in it to sit on and drove it over to the self service
car wash to vacuum out all the stuff.
We got the seat and lid re-installed, all the
stuff put back into the shop and we were sitting at mom's dinner table by 6:30pm for a home
cooked meal.
I wimped out and didn't drive home Sunday night though. It just seemed
like a much
better idea to go for an evening swim and get a good night's sleep before making the 3 hour
trip. So, I drove back home Monday morning.
All together we had about 16 hours of
steady work
to get the job done. Pretty good considering neither of us had ever chopped a top before.
We've both cut several cars up for one reason or another, but we never put those back
together ;-) Again, thanks to Doug Deleo for the use of the shop. Tools like the speedecut,
the Drag Gun plasma cutter, the dynafile, and even having several grinders with different
types of wheels on them saved us tons of time.
