[TFoch]

Great looking Vette!

[sammons]

Brother and i got the hardtop off to beable to start trying to load some of the extra parts in on top of the convertible top. So... we took one last short cruise together and out to cemetery for one last picture with dads marker.

Now got to figure out if we can get all these parts loaded somehow while leaving enough room for the transporter to still drive the car for loading/unloading.

Lol, if your wondering why the hood isn"t latched down.. .. i haven't seen it latched since the early 80"s. Dad did a lot of parades and it helped keep the engine cool on those hot days. We are scared to try it right now. We did PB blatster the crap out of the cables ,latches and everything seems free.... but, a thing to check once its back to his house.😁

[sammons]

Brother got all the spare parts loaded, every nook and cranny filled. I think it's ready for the shipper, just hope he gets here before my brother has to go back home.

Found a few Vette books and my old IGO office plaque. I gave him the IGO sign off the front of the shop already on one trip back here. He will still have to get back and get the red/white stripped panels that ran upright that ran from the top to the bottom of the side of the building.

[sammons]

Got my brother back on the plane yesterday morning amd he made it back home. When i got back from the airport, poor old dog stood staring at the door waiting for brother too come back in for an hour. This morn he is sitting staring at his bedroom door.

The shipper for the Vette should be here within the next two weeks to get it out to him. He got most of my stuff done for me. Ran out of time to finish the chassis swap on my mower. Did get the engines and wiring harnesses swapped. The V-twin just about gave him a hernia lifting it out.  I have all winter to swap bodies and tire/wheels over.

[sixball]

We can deal with our wives running of with another guy but our dogs? Now that hurts! 

[sammons]

I got the rear bodys and tanks off for the chassis swap yesterday. I've been having hard to shift issues on both the newer red mower and my old green one. Had my brother drive both to see how shot my steering was and the shift thing. He said a bit stiff on shift and steering on my old green, red one steering was easy and he thought shifted fine.
I got down to where i could access fill plug and the red one only had an 1" of gear oil. My old green one had less than 1/8". I'm guessing they slowly leaked out over the last 2 decades, who knows if it was full when they delivered them new. No wonder it was hard to shift. The rubber fill plug was tough to get out, dosen't seem to me that you could even access it with the body/tank on.