A little of this and that.

Well, my charcoal canister master piece I made to eliminate gas fumes in the garage didn't work. So I made a post to the 33 builders blog about my issue and got a response from another 33 builder, Bruce, from CA. He actually told me I should reroute my line for better access later and sent me a unit he said would stop the fumes and did it as a favor, no charge, nice guy. I rerouted the line and installed the unit he sent me and no more fumes : ) Here's what he wrote me about the unit he sent me, because I couldn't figure out what it was from. " The unit is used on about every Chinese and Honda small engine in the 200 to 340 cc class. I have used them an the last 6 hot-rods I have built----with no fumes in the garage after install, They seem to last about 8 years." Thanks Bruce.

I've also been trying to button down a bunch of small items that needed to come off  my to-do list. Because of needing to ship me the body unpainted from NC I started a search to find a painter here locally. I think I may have found one south of Fort Worth about 1 hour, Mansfield, from Flower Mound. Traudl and I drove down there on Monday and found they are a very large full service Hot Rod shop. They had a bunch of custom/vintage cars they were working on. The catch is, that in order for them to give me a good quote I have to trailer the car and body parts down for them to see, which makes sense, but costs money if I decide not to use them. If the quote is too high I will have spent $250 for shipping for nothing plus I will have to bring the car back home. They seemed like really nice folks and also seemed to know their stuff. Their name is House of Hot Rods and Classics http://www.txhouseofhotrods.com/  I will probably have the chassis and body parts shipped down to them next week sometime. Oh yes, I received the body parts on Tuesday and have stored them up on top of my lift. Lots of parts.

I had to shut down for a little while lately because a very close friend of ours from back in the sixties is very ill with cancer and is having a very difficult struggle with it. So Traudl and I decided to drive up to Kirksville MO to visit her. I'm really glad we made the trip. Traudl helped a lot with the driving so that made it much easier. I'm not used to those long drives, up and back we drove about 1500 miles and about 26 hours. That is a long haul, but I'm glad we did it.

                            Here's where I rerouted the fume discharge line to.

   
        Here is the canister that Bruce sent me to install, which worked great.

           This is the truck that delivered the parts of the car from NC. Big truck!

                         We were one of his last drop off on this leg. He had a small
                          plane in there yet to deliver.

                                      Taking the main body off  the truck.

                       We unloaded the smaller parts from the side of the truck.

                             Everything loaded up on top of the car lift.

                                Chassis back under the lift.