The Great Pumpkin - '71 Duster
You again!
Garage is 99.9% finished. Has a heater unit hung, (you can see it to the right of the window) just waiting to get a propane tank installed and plumbed to feed it which is no small potatoes. As usual, there are various complications involved with that process but I hope to have working heat before winter.
Note the B body addition, got that in May of this year. Amateur resto, one of 934 big block '68 Coronet 440s. Started tinkering with that and ran into some snags, have some big plans for it. Big brown truck could start rumbling up the driveway soon delivering trinkets to lavish on it.
Incidentally, I broke my hip (!) last Saturday, 11/3 skateboarding. Was at a skatepark in my town (see below) and have been learning how to ride the bowls. There were never any places like this when I was younger, they everywhere now and I have been inspired to skate more. This pic is a still from a video I took of myself before my injury.
Anyway, was about to call it a day when I ran into some debris at the bottom at speed, stepped off awkwardly and launched myself horizontally. I landed with all my weight on my left femur, I knew I broke it right away, I couldn't get up. I had some kid grab my cell phone and I called 911. EMS came to scrape me off the bottom of the bowl and took me to the ER down the street. Got transferred up to Yale, had it surgically repaired that Monday with a plate and a couple pins. I'll be laid up for a while so not much going on in the next few weeks for me!
Sadly, The Great Pumpkin still sits idle in storage. I was so close to finishing, I am mad at myself for not getting it done. Lot of stuff happened in our lives over the last couple years that could qualify as reasonable excuses for not getting it done but it still blows to have it just sitting. I go look at it sometimes just to remind myself I still have it.
Thanks for checking in!
You again!
Garage is 99.9% finished. Has a heater unit hung, (you can see it to the right of the window) just waiting to get a propane tank installed and plumbed to feed it which is no small potatoes. As usual, there are various complications involved with that process but I hope to have working heat before winter.
Note the B body addition, got that in May of this year. Amateur resto, one of 934 big block '68 Coronet 440s. Started tinkering with that and ran into some snags, have some big plans for it. Big brown truck could start rumbling up the driveway soon delivering trinkets to lavish on it.
Incidentally, I broke my hip (!) last Saturday, 11/3 skateboarding. Was at a skatepark in my town (see below) and have been learning how to ride the bowls. There were never any places like this when I was younger, they everywhere now and I have been inspired to skate more. This pic is a still from a video I took of myself before my injury.
Anyway, was about to call it a day when I ran into some debris at the bottom at speed, stepped off awkwardly and launched myself horizontally. I landed with all my weight on my left femur, I knew I broke it right away, I couldn't get up. I had some kid grab my cell phone and I called 911. EMS came to scrape me off the bottom of the bowl and took me to the ER down the street. Got transferred up to Yale, had it surgically repaired that Monday with a plate and a couple pins. I'll be laid up for a while so not much going on in the next few weeks for me!
Sadly, The Great Pumpkin still sits idle in storage. I was so close to finishing, I am mad at myself for not getting it done. Lot of stuff happened in our lives over the last couple years that could qualify as reasonable excuses for not getting it done but it still blows to have it just sitting. I go look at it sometimes just to remind myself I still have it.
Thanks for checking in!
