George's Cars

site to keep track of what george is doing with his cars at any particular point in time

Browsing Posts published in August, 2009

After sitting around doing nothing most of the day yesterday in pissy rain, today I had to come back to work and the sun is out!! I might get out for a spin after work.

It has been raining all day today, really heavy rain so driving the buggy wasn’t an option until about an hour ago. It stopped raining so i decided to try get a few miles in her. Don’t drive through puddles in a buggy!! That woke me up thats so sure. Oh well, i’ll have to [...]

well as finished as these things ever are!! I’ll write a more detailed report tomorrow. I’m tired!!

A small gathering and a mini swap meet. There was a nice selection of parts on display.

A beach buggy. Another day working on the buggy. I really need to go back to work soon!!! I think i’ll let the pictures do most of the talking here, I’m too tired for a long post. Now before someone comments, because i know someone will, yes the head lights aren’t straight, i’ll sort that [...]

I’ll be there!

Well Friday morning I was thinking with a bit of luck i would be test driving the buggy on Saturday afternoon. By 6 o’clock on Friday I knew that was not going to happen. The first big issue was the rear indicators, yes those arrows, they look savage but they are no where near bright [...]

I spent the day working in the garage again today. It was a bit of a strange day I got of lots of work done but no jobs finished. Most of the day was spent on the wiring, i got most of the rear of the wired up, its not tidied up but i find [...]

for the last few days, thats not because i have not been working, I have, lots. In fact the reason there has been no update is I put in two 16 hours days in the garage the last 2 days so by the time i got home I was too tired to even look at [...]

well i came to a realisation tonight, colour sanding a car is time consuming and my paint job is really not that bad, it looks good from 2 feet, but not when you really study it so given the time constraints i’m under, less than two weeks to finish the buggy I’m going to leave [...]