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All for $450 CDN! Now to buy probably $200 worth of lug nuts..
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I'm hoping once I get some weight in it and bounce it around they'll settle back down. They use to sag somewhat before and all I did was pull them apart and put all new interleaf plates / plastic wear pads etc in and reband them.Looks like the Bee's leaf springs have some serious arch to them.
Well I haven't been so determined to finish something since I was trying to get the first airplane that I built completed and test flown before Oshkosh 1995 !
Our youngest Daughter announced she was engaged two weeks back and yesterday while going over what she wants to do for a ceremony, here at our house, she asked to be driven to the "alter" by me in the Bee and her Mom or Brother to drive her Brides Maids out in the Bird. Kristal knows I'm restoring the Bee in her Sister Jen's memory, as my therapy, and she's good with that and wants to make it part of her day. The Bird I need to get cleaned up and roadworthy for Talladega 2019 anyhow so a win win in my books. Gonna be a blur from here on out to get this all done!
Pics of unloading the Bee out of the trailer today and into the shop, along with the Bird that I'd moved to the house garage so I was ready to go on it. Both in the shop now and ready to get to work.
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Very nice work!
Maybe I should have just posted a picture...lol.....Sorry, I got lost in a sea of blackness....I talked to Mr Hall and he assured me they were indeed Brown " the same as the heater box" (which I thought was black and then I looked at it again and no its DARK brown) and he even offered to sell me paint. Is yours, Justin, not Brown as received from him? My weekend project is to get all the pieces bonded back together again and hopefully at least into primer. I always thought they were black, and that's what you always see on restorations... except until I saw yours!
As for the seal, I have a new repop one from Dales Cuda Shop... but my old one (that I bought in '88 from Mopar) is still in pretty good shape. Just needs a good clean up and repaint along the steel strips. Part # 8849233
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