I'm back "kinda". Had computer problems caused by power surges. 5 blown power packs= about 5 weeks offline. The workload was huge so I never really missed the machine. Then I got sick. I thought I was a goner for sure. Ten days of hell I won't discuss here but thank God I dodged a .50 cal round. I'm not working yet but I'll start on Monday. I'm building a new car is maybe the good news. It's a long one and the upside is that 2 corporates are going to inject a fair amount of cash into it. The same people turned me down on sponsorship for the truck. A local wheel manufacturer that was going to machine a set of custom wheels for my custom bike (to take to Sturgis a few years ago) is busy doing a set of billet 18" wheels to match the M/T tyres I've ordered.
Most of the components I had for the truck will work on the long car. With the local currency sitting at 10/$ sponsors are the only way I'm going to get the project completed and I start welding on Monday. The cool thing is that the guy we bought our house from built a yacht in the garge, well the garage grew to accomodate the boat so space won't be a problem. The wife has three cars, one with a blown clutch. She found a buyer for it and wanted me to replace the clutch. I hate FWD like you won't believe and really didn't want to do the job but I got lucky. I met an old friend that owns a workshop and he did the job "on the house". She sold the car and gave me the proceeds towards the long car. How's that?.
What a girl!!! She's put up with all my Dodge for years and this is my reward. I'm blessed. I'll post pics of the new project as it emerges.