RATS! Now I have to wait for the sun to come out tomorrow to put a coat of rust-preventative paint on the tank.
Maybe it's time to go back to the fiberglass since I MUST install the tail light clip, then the trunk-cargo extension before mounting the tank underneath the floor of the trunk.....WHEW!

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Hey Tony, if you're getting our rain then tomorrow is not going to be sunny for you the good news is, if you're using POR 15 it likes a little rust on parts...

 

Just two hours of sun between weather fronts would give me time to attach the tail light clip from the underside of the deck...I think I'll mount it and have it ready to fiberglass in place.....just in case.

 

You nailed it about the rain moving my way.....It's been pouring H20 since 7 a.m. this morning....no raising the garage door/the rain is whipping around.

I'll roll the car forward as much as possible to have working room to clamp the tail light clip onto the rear deck.

 

More is coming your way Tony ...lol

 

It's O.K. I'm chewing on some meds now.....I'm caught in the middle emotionally and psychologically....

my Son's birthday was 10 days ago and the memorial of his death is just 10 days away.......it's an hour-by-hour existence this time of year.

 

Hang in there Tony, take it minute by minute if you have to... This too shall pass...

 

Tony,

Keep your chin up, keep pressing forward.

Your tank looks great! Great progress on the fiberglass too.

Its raining here too, I'm fortunate I have enough space to work in.

 

Time is what we live by. Take as much as you need.



Mike

 

Thanks Men......it got down to minute-by-minute....
I'm doing a little better now. I really don't want to fall into another 3 or 4 month "living-in-my-pajamas" slump (this year)!

 

I would like to say I'm sorry for your loss. I'm over at my buddies house tonight that I've known for 39 years now. His son was shot and killed almost 3 years ago. Tomorrow would have been he's 20th birthday. So I kinda understand what you're going through but not totally. As of right now my buddy and his wife is doing okay but I can tell that it is affecting them. But I'm here for them as long as they need me. And I hope your loved ones are there for you.

 

Tell them I said "Hello and I'm so sorry about their Son". Grieving parents "put their game-face on" when friends come to visit. It gets really rough when the company leaves.

 

I'll tell them you said hello.And thank you. There is no game face tonight. I'm here for them until Monday night and any day they need me I'll be there.I followed your thread for a long time. I seen your post about your son and I know you hurt deeply. I do not want to imagine that pain. I know you have other people that love you as much as you love your son. You have to keep going for them. And thank you for your service Gunner.

 

havesome to:

This is not easy for me to write, but I hope it will help others understand better what grieving parents go through on a daily basis. Even when they seem to avoid being around friends or relatives, right or wrong---they are dealing with the hurt as best as they can. When they are able to "act normally", it is only to cover-up and block out the inner pain......

I would tell them exactly what you have P.M.d to me. You are not forgetting him---you just are afraid of not being able to say the right things. It won't be easy to say it, but it will give them A LOT of comfort. It lets them know that their son is in your thoughts when you think of them and when you are with them. Just know that sometimes they literally want to go to sleep and NEVER wake up again........and if they do wake up---they wish it will be in a different World with their Son alive and safe by their sides forever. It's NOT that they do not need or appreciate the help of friends and relatives----it's just that the pain in their hearts is so great that they cannot live with it. Even when they do manage to laugh or smile, the pain and tears are always one thought and one heartbeat away.
I hope this little bit of information helps you understand them a little better, so that they will know they have many more unseen friends who live and breath hoping for what seems impossible-----to see and hold their children again one day.

EDIT: I forgot to mention another important thing. It may be hard to understand.......but Time has stopped for your Friends who's child has been taken from them.

Someone told my wife one day that they were "Sorry for the loss of her child" (she knows that they meant well)....but, when she and I were alone later she said to me with tears in her eyes...."I did not lose my child---I know EXACTLY where he is at---and I want to go get him and bring him home where he will be safe!" So.....Even though it has been 3 years, to them it probably seems like it happened only a few days ago. Everyone else's lives have continued on----vacations, holidays, work, family get-togethers, births, marriages. But they (the two parents) are caught in a place in time that never seems to get any better, and never seems to end.


Thanks to all for listening,
Tony/doorgunner

 

This is much better than 48 hours of rain...............











So........I "pried myself" off the chair and into the garage to do an hour's work........rookie style.......it looks terrible, but both edges are now flush excluding the tapered edges............






The weather clouded up again and started sprinkling......I'll have to check the weather channel and see what the Gulf of Mexico has planned for the rest of the day.

 

I lean towards the lyrics of a Smokey Robinson song.... "Tears of a Clown"....we try not to let it show around others, but when we`re alone,only God can see our sorrow.
"It looks terrible" now, but once you get it glassed in, and sanded out.... and painted.... it will be BEAUTIFUL!!

 

Thanks Oldgto! "No workkee on car today".......I spent the morning at the VA hospital and the afternoon with my father-in-law at the "Human Hospital"----more leg/artery surgery.

Maybe some fiberglassing tomorrow since the monsoons have moved eastward!

 

Hey Door Gunner. Next time your feeling up to it and in front of your computer, can you please post where you got that convertible top front trim windlace. Thanks alot

 

It had to be either Willcox or Ecklers.

It was a rough day but I managed to get an hours work done on the underside of the deck.........by the way------this is NOT the way it should be done.........but the wooden slats held the tail light clip flush with the deck.......











This pic is taken looking up and to the rear of the deck and the tail light clip.....I used only one screw in the seam to pull the upper and lower slats against the fiberglass parts.....this is the first layer of woven cloth cut to fit between the slats....once these patches cure I will remove the stats and then add the next layers which will be full-length.......

 

You are doing such an amazing job making your poor 68 look like it should, the way it came new from St. Louis. Lou.