Day 3

Today some things started coming together! Got the chassis pretty well setup. The rear ladder bars and crossmember was a big step as well as the partial frame boxing. We moved the steering box and started on the motor mounts. The car now sits on its own weight and is square and true!
Tomorrow we need to do the tranny mount and finish welding a bunch of the chassis stuff. Next would be the pedal assembly.
Calling in sick tomorrow...for work...which is funny that I'm not going to work on hot rods so I can work on a hot rod...

Day 2

So day 2 on my dads car was a bit of a challenge. We were juggling the rearend setup, mounting the ladder bars, motor and Trans placement, trying to find space for the steering box, cutting the firewall and removing the stock center crossmember...lots of stuff the kinda looks like we didn't do anything for the 11 hours we were at the shop!
But that's how it goes, hopefully tomorrow we see some forward progress.

Amps and hot rods and fabrication and...

I enjoy meeting people with high attention to detail and uncompromising standards. I'm surely not one of them, but Mike Soldano, the gentleman who made nearly everything you see in these pictures is.

I'm fortunate to be able to call Mike a friend and have him as an invaluable resource for the times when my automotive or cycle projects go sideways, which is often.

What I like and respect most about the guy though is that he's nice. Small accomplishments often result in large heads, and that's just not the case with Mike. For every 100 guys who've done very little while playing it off as having done a lot, there's a guy like Mike whose done a lot and boasts very little. That's cool.

And yes, his amps really do go up to 11.