Hey, I'm running out of patience with my no-work wipers, come on down!

 

You know, there was quite an effort into those 26 or so posts I made over three hours Friday at 3 AM. I took the best of hundreds of pictures. Most times I take a picture I take two or three pictures of the same thing from slightly different angles, distances and heights. Then when I upload them to the computer I keep the one best one. Even after that I had many, many pictures taken 15 minutes or half an hour apart I decided not to post as one was very similar to the next and you really had to stare at the pictures to see the difference. Throughout the year I was thinking of how I'm going to explain what I was going through and then there were weeks of adjusting brightness/contrast (almost all pictures were originally quite dark) and adding explanatory arrows and so on. So right around Crismas I started writing the text of those 26 or so posts. That part went reasonably quickly. I was worried it might be boring (and for some it likely is), but for me when I watch a project car being built on TV I want to hear about the bodywork in detail and see how it was done, including sanding techniques. So, I wanted to make one long post covering the year I spent on this passenger side rear bumper written the way I like to see body work described and explained.

 

I can be bought for a price

I kid. Actually electrical stuff is a mystery to me. I adhere to the old adage "If a bigger hammer won't fix it, your problem is probably electrical".

 

I dunno, Priya. 1/16th off? i think you need to spend another year getting it better...

 

Don't tempt me

 

Yes, it was very frustrating at times. The worst is when I'd have it close to where I thought would be ideal and in trying to sand more to get it where I want it suddenly it would get farther away than I just had it and I'd be standing there for an hour thinking "wtf?". There was a lot of times like that. Now that you mention it I am a little surprised I didn't at one point decide "I can't figure this out, I give up."

 

I think what your are doing is great!!! I too have felt - "why the hell did I mess with it- it was close enough???"

Just some food for thought- that 1/16" - couldn't you just let a littler air out of the tire???

Carry on- doing a hell of a job!!!

Richard

 

Thanks Richard, I really appreciate the encouragement

 

I know some (most?) will think I've been "polishing the cannonball" by spending a year tweaking the passenger side bumper to within a sixteenth of an inch. Let me explainf the main reason why I was so concerned with this. There were two reasons, one that the part of the passenger side bumper that runs forward along the quarter panel was pointing a bit upwards compared to the driver's side, and that originally at the lowest I could position the passenger side bumper, it was still closer to the tail lights than on the driver's side. Why did that matter so much to me? Because of the feedback I got in this thread:

https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...ar-bumper.html

In that thread I asked for people to measure the distance between their tail lights and the top of the rear bumpers. When I was trying to position my bumpers, I couldn't get them as far from the tail lights as these people had measured their's at. My rear bumpers were quite a bit closer to the tail lights than they were on the chrome bumper cars of the owners who posted to my above thread and by a pretty big amount, like 1/4 to 3/8". No matter what I tried, the tops of my bumpers were quite a bit closer to the tail lights than on factory bumper cars and the passenger side was noticeably closer to the tail lights than the already too close driver's side was. So I really wanted to lower the position of the passenger side bumper but the main thing holding me back from doing that was the bumper mounting bulge on the quarter panel. I already had the passenger side bumper positioned as low as I felt was prudent inside the quarter panel bumper bulge and in order to lower it more (and move the top of the bumper farther away from the tail lights as well as to tilt the front of the bumper going along the quarter panel downwards) I needed to lower the floor of the quarter panel bumper bulge as I previously showed in this picture:




So, because it was much closer to the tail lights than factory cars (and closer than the driver's side), I really wanted to lower the passenger side bumper more even though moving it downwards just a little bit would require a major re-working of the mounting bulge on the quarter panel.

 

You know, I can think of probably ten or twenty cars of which, if price was no object, I might like better than this car I'm building, if they were the exact options I wanted, the interior and exterior colours I wanted and so on. But if I had any one of those other cars, this 79 would be a car I'd be wondering if I wouldn't prefer to have over that. For me, this is an ultimate dream car (of which I have many, lol) and so it is a labour of love, isn't it?

 

I've so enjoyed all your comments after my Friday post. With the praise I'd like to give thanks to my wonderful husband who has made all this possible. I'm living my dream life and I owe every thing to him

 

That's great, but don't forget to give yourself the credit you deserve as well.
I have followed your thread for a long time as you battled with the winter cold and space in the garage to do the work.
It is perfectly ok to be a little OCD over some things.
Keep up the good work and you will be more than satisfied with the end result.

 

Thanks OldCarBum

 

LOL...….and I wanted the opposite. I wanted the top-inner edge of the bumper to be 1/4" from the tail light panel and the quarter panel. The original large gap seemed too much ( probably for being rear-ended to avoid fiberglass damage/yeah-right)

I also would have removed 1.5" from the inside edge of each bumper to eliminate the bulky look (my perspective).

Keep up the good work!

 

Thanks doorgunner

For me there's no improving on the 70-73 factory rear end. Or at least that's what I think not having seen what you've done. I haven't checked out your project for a while, I'm going to have a look today.

 

I saw this dress on the Golden Globes and I was so impressed I really wanted to show it to someone. I don't have anyone to show it to, so you people are it, lol

This is by a Canadian indigenous designer named Lesley Hampton, worn by Lainey. What struck me about it was that it is so different from everything else I've seen in the fashion industry (not that I pay close attention to fashion). To fully appreciate it, you need to see video of her wearing this on a big screen tv, but this picture gives an indication of what it was like and was the best I could find.

 

Love it!!!

 

Some women just stand out for reasons that count not because of a dress.i bet neither the designer or the woman wearing it could put chrome bumpers on a late model c3.

 

You're probably right about that. Although I know I couldn't come up with anything beyond the most common and simple of fashion designs. Once back in the 90's I decided I wanted to "design" a dress and I started sketching what appealed to me (and I'm no artist) and I had about half of you typical little cocktail dress drawn and I thought "Nothing new there, I guess I don't have the imagination for it.". I suppose in a way its similar with custom cars, both a styling exercise requiring imagination I don't have - the stuff people think up for custom body and interior modfications, I could never think that stuff up.

I enjoy watching the car show "Bitchin rides" because they do all this sheet metal fabrication from scratch and show how they do it and how they mock it up and hold it together for welding and so on. But some of the interiors Dave Kindig does, wow! I've seen a couple he's done, one a 66 or 67 Coronet in blue and the other a 67 or so GTO both with beige interiors (not a colour I would normally ever consider for a car interior) and the interiors just have such a strong appeal to me. Once again, if you asked me to think up something like that, I couldn't even begin to dream up something remotely to that level.

 

Hey you got half a dress drawn. Sounds like a good design. Top half or bottom half?