Ok, I got a text from the Rev this morning with a picture of the good lady standing next to a rag top late model Mustang....that they've hired....God help us..
Anyways, yes we, I ,have been scarce on here...I've been lurking but to be honest I have little to report about the car...my focus has been the ankle...I got back to work and my days are currently filled with that and talking to the insurance company.......bless 'em , it's easier to make a kid eat broccoli than get them to do something they're supposed to do( and before anyone pipes up with the whole "They're running a business like everybody else and if they didn't care about profit/loss they wouldn't be there" they're a government outfit funded by a compulsory component of(~60%)registration and they make huge profits)...I've paid nearly thirty years of rego on more than one vehicle and I've NEVER hurt myself or anyone else in a car or bike...enough of that..
I'm not walking yet, I have a moon boot but can't weight bear fully yet and have very limited movement in the ankle so far...nearly made it through last week without painkillers but Friday was a shocker , the problem is I work in the drug and alcohol rehab field and one of the painkillers I'm taking makes me itch like someone in withdrawl, the only thing that stops the itching has me falling asleep constantly....you can see the problems with that
After the cars run at Mangalore airfield in 06 I stripped the bodywork.........given that the climate control in the "research and development facility" is Al Fresco I try not to paint during winter, then I was overseas, then I had the accident.....at present there are various odd shaped pieces of aluminium bodywork doubling as garden sculpture all over the back yard...the front part of the tub sits forlornly under the lemon tree...filling with lemons, the canopy sits on our Sea-Fury tank,making it look like something is happening......meanwhile Speedweek 09 bears down upon us.
I did solve one of the problems we'd been fighting with and that was our new seat , relocated harness mounts and how to mount the hip belts .We are sitting on the floor basically , in the old format we could JUST get the mounts far enough away to get proper tension. TCALSS we will loop the belts around the lower frame rail in order to extend the distance between the mount and the buckle...a small step but an important one.....where we were looking at the new mount there is no space, no height above the deck and no width in the frame
so mounting the anchor higher and then going down and around the lower frame rail may be our only solution.
We still have lots and lots of little stuff to do, right now I need a back pack to carry anything more than a few steps which slows everything and makes using a spray gun out of the question.....but, I'll get there.
Right now I reckon the Rev and the good lady Hedgash are lost somewhere in LA , talking to a cop...."whaddayamean you were driving on the wrong side of the road because you got confused" , or staring absent mindedly under the bonnet of that Ford........get ready Sum