RallyJusty Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 I get lucky every other week and get to read up on goings on here. However I haven't been so lucky with the car. I have been working 70 hour work weeks for nearly 3 months now. I have worked exactly 27 minutes on the car. Just wanted to touch base with the Subaru world to let you know that I am still going. Actually I have worked a bit here and there and have nearly completed the floor pan and fire wall installation. I designed the pedal assembly and am ready to build it. I also started stripping it all down from the fire wall forward. I want to check welds, sand-blast and grind, and take off as many sharp pokies as I can before moving onto paint and final assembly and eventual running it, wrecking it and starting the whole damn process over. I have a few hundred pictures in un-developed film to process and post at the sight. Real bad news and real good news. My neighbors are these great older folks. The husband has been losing his fight with cancer in his spinal cord. I have been looking out for their house, watching out for strangers and the like, and helping out as I can with my work schedule. Anyway, their daughter asked me if I wanted his 6 foot metal lathe with milling attachment for 50 bucks. Said I was a nice nieghbor and that they wanted me to have it. I hate the reason they offered it. This guy was 85 when I met him crawling around under his car installing a crane in the trunk for his wifes elctrobuggy. He never had a bit of slow in him until recently. I hope to do him proud by using the hell out of it. I hope I can be as busy as he is when I'm 85. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oddcomp Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 sad circumstances all around i am sure you will make him proud i know if i had tools to.. get rid of in that situation.. the biggest joy to me is that they be used as often as possible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. RX Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 The circumstances suck, but a 6 FOOT METAL LATHE AND MILL FOR ONLY $50, that thing must weight a ton or two, and for only. Is that a 6 foot bed or is that the total length of the lathe? I would love to have that, then I could start improving things that I see need improvement on my cars. Can hardly wait to see the pictures of the process, I wish that I would have taken more picture of teh progress of my last project, but if I did, it would probabaly still not be done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WoodsWagon Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 nice project, please update your website fotos when you have the chance, they're eagerly awaited. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
americanyouth Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 Congratulations. Sorry to hear about the cirsumstances that led to you getting the lathe, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the sucker king Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 hey neighbor. i live in lyons. just wanted to shout out cause i saw you live so close. there's another guy on the board from longmont and a girl from loveland. anyways good luck and lemme know if you need anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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