Still looks alright.
Well I got all the wheel covers shined up last week. But I’ve been playing “collect the parts” to get one of my rear brakes fixed. I tell ya it’s been a learning experience, but now I’m finally VERY familiar with how these rear disc brakes operate. I THINK I’m good to go now. ha ha
So since I finally got the covers back on the wheels, I figured I’d snap a few pictures while the car is all clean!
The Poker Den
Well another project tackled (for the most part). I’ve been wanting to turn our unfinished into a little hangout spot. I’m liking how it’s shaping up so far, but I need some more quirky junk to decorate with. I need to hit up some estate auctions or something for all sorts of weird stuff. We scored a brand new folding poker table off of amazon.com for a reasonable price. It’s more sturdy than your average folding table and I was pretty impressed with the quality for as little as it cost.
I didn’t want to just set a poker table in an empty unfinished basement though. I wanted it to look halfway lived in, so I’ve been trying to find some of the stuff that has been tucked away (or just never unpacked from move-in day). Found some of the old Deep 6 stuff from the band I was in during high school. And a few car parts I had laying around. I guess those are decorative… better than a concrete wall I guess. I want to get a bunch of the old tin signs and things like that. And old neon sign from a bar or something would be sweet, but those things are expensive!
Eventually I want to get a nicer stereo to put down there. I just have a little am/fm radio right now. It’d be cool to put a small couch or loveseat down there, but I don’t know if it would fit down the stairs. If you haven’t seen the entrance to my basement, it’s just like a trap door in the floor of my utility closet, and I really don’t think any real piece of furniture would fit through it! But it would be nice to have some kind of comfortable seating down there and I could move my old 25″ TV down there with a Nintendo and/or DVD player so that players that get knocked out of a game have something to do. Come to think of it… I bet a futon sofa would fit nicely!
So there’s the latest I’ve been up to. Still a work in progress, but at least I’m not ashamed to show it now. So come on over and help put it to good use!
05.30.09The Finished Product…
Need I say more? Just check out the pictures!
*sexy meow*
The HOT new lights!
Rear View 😉
The sexy new fender Stangs
They're really shiny close up!
BONUS!
I was trying to explain to Mom tonight what these little lights are on Andrea’s new headlights. Just next to the main headlight, it looks kinda like a fog light… only it’s not really bright enough to light anything up. It doesn’t do anything, so I’m just calling it a “bonus light”. Since the original lights didn’t have these, I just tapped into the park lights, so there ya go. Bonus lights on Andrea’s car!
04.25.09I thought Andrea would have posted this…
Got Andrea’s new headlights installed today. They’re not what I would have chose, but I admit they look better than I thought they would. She took a drive tonight and said they’re tons better than her old ones, so money well spent I guess.
Oh and don’t judge my painting abilities quite yet. The paint isn’t very glossy because I just got done wet sanding it. More paint hopefully tomorrow night or monday. 4 coats to go! (Maybe more)
04.21.09A few pics of Andrea’s car
Well, we’re really making some progress now. Got two coats on just about everything except the front header panel/bumper. I want to wait to tear into that until her new headlights come in on Friday. No sense taking the old ones out. Putting the old ones back in. Taking the old ones out.. and putting the new ones in! She got some (IMHO) goofy ‘euro’ headlights. I called her a ricer. But she got what she wanted and is happy, and that’s what’s important.
Here’s some shots with a couple of coats on. Got one more coat, then wetsand. Then three more coats, wetsand. Then see where we’re at. Black is a tough color so I might go up to 10… just don’t know yet. It’s not going to look perfect. But I’ll get it looking as good as I can!
On to the next project!
Well today was the first real day of work on Andrea’s car getting it ready for paint. Pulled a lot of trim and did a lot of sanding. It’s gonna be a lot of work, but it’s definitely looking doable. Thankfully there’s not near the rust that there was on my car. But still a few spots here and there.
Andrea has been doing just as much work as I have, which I gotta say is pretty cool! How many guys can say, “Yeah my wife helped me prep the Mustang for paint tonight.” Just the lucky ones. 😉
03.22.09Rollin’
Well we’re starting the process of painting Andrea’s car. I just realized I don’t have any pictures. So for historical purposes, here’s the before shots.
The paint really isn’t in too bad of shape other than the clear coat peeling off the hood, and the bumper spot. But it’s two different colors of red! That’s what a couple of deer will do I guess. This one should be ALOT less work than mine was, because we’re going to park it while we’re painting it. (Meaning I don’t have to put it back together everyday. ) And there’s not near the rust on it as there was on mine. But we’ll see. After it’s painted it’s going into the shop for all new exhaust and we’re getting new headlights since these are all fogged over and make it difficult to drive at night. She doesn’t even have to turn her brights off for oncoming traffic! Ha ha.
She wants black. Which is cool, but I warned her it shows any and all imperfections. But I’m sure there won’t be any. We’ll see what happens.
Hopefully it goes better than today’s automotive work did. I headed out to get the front end on my car finally fixed. Only to find out that I don’t have big enough tools to do the work! So I run to the hardware store to see if they have what I need. Heck they don’t even sell big enough sockets. So at least I leave without spending any money… But coming out to the parking lot I notice something hanging from underneath Andrea’s car. The tailpipe came loose from the muffler! Geeze! So I nurse it home and put it up on the ramps. Just pulled the rusty thing out and threw it in the trash. At least that’s one less thing that can fall off.
So back to my car I see if there’s anything I can fix with the tools I have. Front shocks? Nope, I have wrenches one size too big, one size too small. Not the one I need. How about just get the idler arm fixed? That was the part that had been scaring me to get out on the highway. I got my wrench on there… but damn it if my sockets aren’t big enough! GEEZE.
So I headed over to Harborfreight.com and scored (I think) everything I need to get it all done for about $60. Like all my projects on my car it looks like this one is going to end up about $200 over budget. Oh well, right. Still cheaper than a car payment!
02.10.09Built for gaming.
Well I had a decent amount of lumber leftover from the workbench. (I bought 10ft. 2×4’s instead of 8ft. ones) So I’ve been thinking what I was going to do with the extras. We’ve had our old TV sitting down in the basement since we moved in, and I enjoyed my old N64 setup for the few short weeks I had it set up at the old house. I decided I would like to get it going here, but didn’t want to rob one of the nice glass top end tables from the living room if I didn’t have to.
I didn’t have any build plans for this, but it might look familiar. I used much the same idea as the workbench. Just smaller demensions. I think it turned out well. And like the workbench, this thing is solid and HEAVY. Guess I’m used to particle board furniture. Ha ha!
01.18.09Benched
It's taking shape.
It's done!
Well this was a fun little project and should come in real handy. I tucked it away in a room in the basement and it should be a nice little workspace for whatever random projects I come up with. It turned out real sturdy. And it sits flat, I’m impressed with myself!