Noels, congratulations! Your car looks terrific and just wait until you drive it. People in other vehicles literally hang out of their windows to video you going past.

That grill shell looks pretty darn good under the circumstances. At least from this angle it does.

Today in Spyder build adventures.

Spyder build updates:

https://alongcameaspyder.wordpress.com/2018/10/09/failure-of-the-wipers-test-fitting-seats/

These are small prices for what you’re looking at. Maybe spend $100 with the lawyer first and fashion the deal thusly:

You sign a contract with the seller promising to pay $2500 WHEN  the car is titled, with $500 earnest money fronted.

Seller petitions for the title, with you and your lawyer’s help. You pay any court/legal costs.

???

Profits.

If the squirters don’t deploy with the flashing lights it’s not a proper clown car!

Congrats, Paul. So now what are you bringing to Carlisle?

What a terrible problem!

Best to get a bill of sale from the seller and work from there. In most states you can get a title–eventually–but it might be a slog if you don’t have a manufacturers certificate of origin or a pretty complete list of donor parts and prices paid.

One way I’ve seen people move this issue, if the Dept. of Motor Vehicles…[Read more]

It would. And it would fit my budget if I sold the Spyder.

Bump.

YES! That looks sweet and your having it sorted is excellent.

Please come up to Carlisle! I do plan to debut this build there and, as it happens, I’m also (sort of) in charge of this year’s “Speedsters Meet Spyders And TDrs” festivities. It’s shaping up to be quite a scene, and I am very much pulling to get a Full Compliment of my TD Replica brethren on the field.

Here’s hoping it doesn’t rain all day every…[Read more]

Update on the Spyder.

Cleaning up for paint

As long as the Mini didn’t float away on its roof.

Thanks for checking in, guys.

HEEEY! Congratulations, brother!

That looks strong enough.

Interesting problem and my money is on a voltage drop at the starter or solenoid switch. Bad ground or some hidden trouble in one of the big red wires.

Bridget’s been doing something similar: starts up every time in the garage, but if I park her of 20 minutes or a half hour she no turn over. An hour an a half it’s like in the garage: easy go.

I…[Read more]