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It sort of just sits there in a pile on the floor, but I love it anyway. I’m really enjoying working on this little freak, can’t wait for it to move under its own power.

Thank you Zoey. I’ll keep you in mind for my next project.

@@Ludicrous_Speedway You are welcomed all the time! If possible, may I know your E?

Thank you. This is one of those projects where I really don’t have any complaints at the end.

I hope so too

Not sure if they still sell them, but try looking for Tom Donney Motors.

@@Ludicrous_Speedway in Fort Dodge?

That's the one, I'll do some more digging and see if anyone else has front glass. I have heard of a place in the UK, but that's a bit far.

@@Ludicrous_Speedway thank you Man i Will try to check donney motors

Thanks! Will do!

I'm sticking with my shotgun mic for now, way better than my previous one (lapel mic on a stick). I've been filming with it for 5 or 6 months and it's really changed the quality of my video. Not that it matters, as that footage is going to sit around for the same time till I do something with it. I don't really want to deal with separate audio until I transition to a real camera set up. But as an AV guy I'll get into it eventually.

Appreciate that

Thanks, it’s comments like these that make it even more fun.

I wouldn't be surprised if the seat cushions were new. I keep finding evidence that someone else was in here before me. Most recent find was the mismatched washer stack on one of the transmission bolts, I don’t think that was factory.

I took a look. Pretty sweet! A little rough around the edges, but you have a good foundation there. I love the side mount exhaust. Is that a Painless Performance fuse box? I was looking at their stuff for when I need to make my harness.

@@Ludicrous_Speedway in all truth i dont even know how we make It run jaja a friend that knows a little bit more of cars help me

The only nice part of this car tbh. The centers are kinda gross, but If I swap those out for a cool blanket or something I think the leather will turn out fine.

Long time no see. That's awesome! Safe to say you beat me to it. Lol. So, where's the pictures.

If you work with printers daily you probably already know the big con of building a one-off printer. There's no support, when it breaks or you discover some previously unconsidered flaw there's no one to blame but myself, LOL. My machine's greatest oversight is the placement of the hot end fan relevant to the extrusion behind it ends up directing the air at my print resulting in an unwanted cooling effect, so ABS has been splitting pretty regularly. Swapping the fan orientation results in the same thing with the hot side acting as a duct. It's just something I have to work around. When I finally get to adding a dual extruder system and airbrush compressor as a parts cooler I'll fix it. The way I'm considering packaging that all would put the hotends sideways and hopefully have a clear path for air. That's all part of the fun for me, hot rodding this thing is supposed to keep me busy enough that I don't feel the need to build a VZbot, we’ll see how long I hold out. I find the current generation of off-the-shelf printers pretty lackluster, I'd say go for it, build one!

Thanks! The hardest part about this is accurately documenting everything, every project supersedes the last. “This is my Magnum Opus, no this is my Magnum Opus.” This got eclipsed immediately, lol.

I would agree. I love 90’s-2000’s cars, they are fairly complicated but for the most part everything is separated into sub assemblies that you can address individually. I think that makes them pretty easy to work on, but this? This is just a mess of spaghetti directly attached to the dashboard. I don’t like this. Somewhere down the line I’ll build an internal structure for all the important bits, with the actual dashboard being just a skin.

I didn’t get into the hobby soon enough, but everyone who knows would agree with you. Glad this community is as great as it is.

@GT1900garage The Esprits are beautiful, you can’t go wrong there. It’s my understanding they are built better too, more cohesively anyway. The Sonett is weird, Its essentially the floor and drivetrain from an unfinished Saab 96, where they just put a fiberglass body on it instead of finishing it. That was intentional, it’s to sneak into stock car races with the closest thing to a race car you can sell at a dealership. Lift off the body, build a rollcage and you're golden. As for where I got it, that was the next episode, but I don’t mind handing out some spoilers. My grandfather raced back in the 80’s, he also worked for Saab as a dealership liaison. One of the cars he raced was a mean Sonett. It was pretty cool. Everyone in my moms family had one at one point. I don’t plan to do the same races he did, but I still think I'm following in his footsteps. That car still exists, but I don’t have it. I got incredibly lucky finding mine, it’s estimated that there are less than 4000 left in the US, I think there's even fewer. After a few years of checking certain websites, this one fell into my lap. I randomly decided to check a popular auction website and there it was, within a few hours of me, so cheap it was basically free, and less than a few hours left to bid. Bought it sight unseen and dragged it out of a field the next weekend. It may look rough, but I’m happy. I’ve seen cars much worse on the market for absurdly high prices.

Me too, I think I'm going to make this biweekly instead of monthly.

That's the plan!

I'm tryin to make this a regular thing, shouldn't be too long

You and me both.

And now I have 2 to play with, that's a bonus.

Personally The Road Warrior is my favorite, but man does it look like one of the cars from Beyond Thunderdome.

@@Ludicrous_Speedway Yes it does

Wait till you see how bent the frame is :). looks like the engine snagged something and pulled the rest of the car back with it.

Thanks for watchin'!

Me too, but considering it's a tractor/generator engine I guess I shouldn't be surprised how industrial some of the parts are. and I bet it's the exact same part used on the v6 and v8 engines.

It’s basically a mid engine transaxle layout, but in front of the driver, weird. I bet the setup made more sense when they were still using the 3 cylinder 2 stroke from the older generations, it was much smaller.

@@Ludicrous_Speedway Agree

That's pretty neat! my family has a similar history, I'm following in their footsteps with this thing.

Glad you found me, now I have another project channel I can watch! Always liked Opel Gt’s. Almost ended up with one once, back when there was one around every corner. At Least with them you can pretend it’s not a 70’s deathtrap lol.

@@Ludicrous_Speedway Yes, at least I try to make it less rusty, hence a bit safer. But on the other hand, I drive 1970 Mini...so...

@@GT1900garage Yeah those aren't the pinnacle of safety either, but it's fun. More power to ya!