Ready for Pickup!

September 5, 2018 -

  Whitby Motorcars has told me my car is ready for pick up. My sister and I are driving down tomorrow to get it!

Sanding

May 11, 2018 -

  It's been a while but I guess I wasn't in a hurry to get a roadster in the winter. Here are some April photos where you can see the primer up close having been sanded smooth. You might also remember there being mold seems that had to be filled in on the fiberglass body. So those seem spots are looking good now too.

Slicksand

November 21, 2017 -

  This process has taken longer than I thought it would but the reasons are 1) there was a line of cars in front of me at Whitby's and 2) there are numerous coats of sanding, primer, sanding, more primer, etc. all before the numerous layers of paint go on and in between each layer are several weeks of curing. That's the only way Jeff at Whitby's says it'll come out great if great is what you want. I figure I'm not in a rush. They sent me this photo of my car's body in their paint room at the point of "slicksand."

Transport To Paint

April 18, 2017 -

  Here's me taking the car down to Greensboro, NC to get the body work and paint done at Whitby's. I got a UHaul trailer and was able to make it down and back in one day! Thanks to mom for the use of her truck.

  I didn't want to leave Whiskey home alone all day so I took her along for the ride. She napped most of the time.

  Here's me and my car down at Whitby's in the garage area. (There's a whole other building for paint and machining parts.)

  Mine is the left one a little further back with the box of parts on it.

Carpeting & Paint

January 3, 2017 -

  Well I got the driver's side floor carpeting in. I also cut holes and put the cup holders into the top of the transmission tunnel and put the shifter ball on.  You can even see the Factory Five floor mats laid in there.  (If I can find a nice shifter boot cover I will put that on but this came from Tremec and the Factory Five one isn't shaped right for this short shifter.) I am planning on taking it down to Whitby's in Greensboro, NC in a couple days weather permitting. So there may not be many more posts for a while.

Passenger Seat Back In

December 30, 2016 -

  I put the passenger side carpeting in as well as the seat and the harness. (This photo should be rotated 90 degrees counter-clock wise. It is in every other application I open the file with.)

Carpeting

December 13, 2016 -

  I started with the back wall of the cockpit per the manual and got on the outer sides of the rear wall and the small pieces on the side of the door sills.

 

  The manual has you do the main tunnel cover and I prepped that area by taking the ball off of the shifter and the seat heater buttons out of their holes. I also had to remove the seat belt bolts. But then I saw how there is so much space around the emergency brake handle and thought "Shouldn't there be a panel patch for that huge opening?" So I'm waiting to hear back from another builder about that before carpeting that area.