As I try to settle down here in Pensacola FL (difficult this year! I want to hit the road until I look at weather forecasts for let's say, Deming NM "32* high, 21* low", are you KIDDING ME?), I bound out of my chair with all of those receipts scattered all over the place, and go find restless little projects in the garage. There have been many. They have been delightfully tiny in scope. Just little burnishments like removing the *passenger side* jalousie window, finding precious little rust, yay! and accidentally nailing a perfect paint match for the window frame:
Now, here are two photographs from January 2016 to remind you of the horrendous overspray that was in every door opening:
The Fred Overspray
® was especially horrid because it was a dark greenish rough transition from the brighter yellow on the expterior to the car's original orange. Over the past three years, I have managed to eradicate every bit of the overspray in the door openings and elsewhere . . . but not behind the front emblem. Seriously, Fred The Oversprayer
® wasted more time taping the emblem than what could have been a simple pry-off. The overspray had original paint just under the circle and the V and the W, and a gross circle of greenish rough overspray all in between. Well, the day before yesterday, I did peel off the emblem and I brushed the entire circle with a concoction of orange/yellow/dollop of BobD green/white, then waited a day and color-sanded it down. Decent match under flourescent lights! Could be terrible in the sunlight! Huge east coast cloud event, must wait for final critique:
Then I got cocky. You know why? I was listening to NPR slowly dole out that the blue wave actually occurred and Stacy Abrams and Andrew Gillum and Bill Nelson and Kyrsten Sinema and Jon Tester had clawed their way into contention if not office. So, I couldn't leave the garage radio. Took the sun-bleached stripey curtains off the tailgate, washed them, then paper-towel-blotted the bleached areas with the above yellow and orange and GumOut carb spray. Yeah, I did that to my original curtains. Upper is post-blot, lower is pre-blot:
It was not perfect, but it blends in nicely with the light effects that occur naturally at the pleat folds:
Did I mention that I need new cylinder heads? I need new cylinder heads:
These are perfectly good functional original cylinder heads with 94,000 miles but the exhaust port stud boss on #4 exhaust is pretty much shot. My last compression figures were fine, here notated on my new deluxe floor mat with real plastic foot pad.
17 mpg spark plugs after a 3,000 mile four day blast look like these:
It is Len Hoffman time. You know my demand letter was pretty fierce, too.
Colin
P.S. I scarfed this advertising shot off the VW Westy camper bus Facebook page, who had in turn scarfed it off theSamba "Press Photo" page, and the dialogue just wrote itself . . . .
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