Opps I broke her!

You might recall in a past blog I mentioned something about still working on adjusting the clutch. Well apparently the problem I was having was more than just an adjustment. Today with the weather being awesome we took the Cobra out for a quick trip to Home Depot to exchange some tile grout, as witnessed in this first pic. Doesn’t she look nice? 😎   From there we decided to run by my Mom and sisters place to say hi. Well a couple of blocks from their house the problem fully manifested itself and the clutch pedal dropped to the floor, which resulted in this. Doesn’t she look sad? 🙁   Fortunately the insurance I have on the car includes towing all the way to my house and not to the nearest garage. She’s back in her spot in the garage and...

Time for a selfie!

Well it’s been just over a month since my last post. What’s been happening with the car since then, not much. Just waiting on the state to get back to me. After a month passing with no word I finally got tired of waiting and called them last week Wednesday with the hope of finding out some sort of status on the VIN. I should have called sooner. Imagine my surprise when they were helpful and told me the VIN had been issued on the 23rd of September and the trooper had picked it up on the 26th. They were surprised he hand’t contacted me yet but were nice enough to give me his number. So I called him up and he said “Yep got it right here. The next appointment is on the 28th of Oct or this Saturday being the 18th, which one would you...

Missed it by that much.

$3.50 to be exact. So after going back and forth to the DMV I finally left the paperwork with them and got a promised call back for the next step. I waited. And color me surprised I actually got a call back from DMV saying they now knew what to do and they would be forwarding the paperwork to the state. So more waiting. And then on Friday we got a package from the State Revenue office, our excitement was short lived. In it was all my paperwork and a nice rejection letter. I got everything right except for the $3.50 required fee. Closer examination of the VIN form shows they actually filled it out with all the proper info and then had to white it out because of the missing fee that DMV didn’t tell me I needed to pay. Oh well, so we wrote the $3.50 check and...

105 Miles

What’s that you say, what’s 105 miles? Well it’s how many miles I have on the car already. I guess I should let you know what I’ve been up to over the last month or so since the last post. To start off I was still building but it’s not as exciting as it sounds, what I was building was paperwork. The paperwork that I need to get her registered.   I did take care of a few more things while I was working on the paper work and waiting on my appointment with the Colorado State Patrol for the certified VIN inspection. First up I finished the center console. Covered it with a piece of leather and padding, added the cup holders and then installed it. I also mounted the fire extinguisher. Cause you gotta have a fire extinguisher, cause...

TaDa…

Checklist complete…..   Garage Empty? Can only mean one thing… I’ve been robbed. Nope, she’s done. Well done enough to start the registration process. Still a few minor details, like the center console and then a major detail like bodywork and paint. But for now, she’s done enough and roadworthy to start the registration process. Enjoy the pics. I get to see this every morning when I head off to work. Can’t wait till I get it registered.

Finally an Update!

Finally an Update!

First off I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. So regular readers might recall a post from last year entitled “Something a Little Different” well it was sorta that time of year again and hence I haven’t been in the garage for a couple of weeks. Fear not though, with this 3 day holiday weekend I got to spend quite a bit of time with the car and she’s getting really close to being ready for registration. I was hoping to knock it all out this weekend but didn’t quite make it. But first what was I doing if I wasn’t out wrenching on the car. Well you might recall we also like to take our Land Rover out and do some off roading. So a couple of weekends back we headed out to Moab for 3 days of trail leader training with the...

PIPES GLORIOUS PIPES!

PIPES GLORIOUS PIPES!

Before I get to the pipes first I got the headlights installed this week. It’s quite a few pieces and steps that make up the headlights and then throw in the additional wiring. First there’s the hole you have to cut. The 2 larger outer holes position the headlight bucket. Next step is mounting the headlight bucket. Here it is mounted. It already comes with the headlight connector installed but the other end doesn’t have a connector. That’s what I spent the rest of the weekend finishing off was the headlight, front marker and tail light connections. It should have been a simple connector install. But for some reason Factory Five decided one connector per corner was all that’s needed. That  would be great if you never planned on...