New Bucket in Florida.....

[mike wade]

A couple of the guys wanted to see a couple more pics of my bucket and I can't get them uploaded because they are slightly over 300kb. I mounted 16 strips of LEDs inside the Air Box, inside the March filter and underneath all over. They work great (Joe Florida LEDs) I'm working on the body and can't quite make primer until after the 1st of the year. Lots of shaping to fit the extended dash and the 8 inch wider body. I'm going to try to get the turtle deck fuel tank opening perfected before Christmas and the rest is primer, blocking, more primer and blocking.

Dave Vanderwall
The Villages, FL

I am posting this for Dave and boy is it gona be a nice car.............














That last one is not the car.........LOL......

Mike

[Kevin Seward]

Wow nice start and cutie little girl, but I'm not so sure about that Santa in the making guy
Happy New Year to everyone !!!!!!

Hitec

[mike wade]

Wow nice start and cutie little girl, but I'm not so sure about that Santa in the making guy
Happy New Year to everyone !!!!!!

Hitec

I agree with you on the little girl but that good looking fellow she is with really likes her.......

.have a HAPPY NEW YEAR up there in the cold country............See you in July I hope........

Mike

[Bill Holley]

oh yes grand kids are the best..
wondering.. the rad hose, hopefully it will not kink with eng gets hot, really like the elect h2o pump, battery might be tough to get to when body goes on, but not like buckets have a ton of room either.. the air horns??? bring diapers, someone may need them when u hit the button..
very nice so far.

[Dewey Burton]

Welcome to the group...I live north of you up north of Gainesville...we have several members even closer..at least one lives in the Villages...if you have not yet run into Big Dog I sure you will when he find out you have a bucket...that is one beautiful car you are building.....

[Rolla Hessel]

Spark Plug, we introduced him to Big Dog in Ocala .. He came over and met with us and went to the Car Parts Outlet, where he and Big Dog posed for a picture

[Uncle Larry]

Betcha Big Dog screwed up that photo. Ha Ha . Sorry BD couldn't resist

[Rolla Hessel]

Uncle Larry, I asked Big Dog to pose for the photo ..

[David Vanderwall]

Thanks guys for getting a couple of my bucket's pics on the site. The battery slips out sideways from underneath if I should need to change it. The top of the turtle deck is completely solid except where the fuel tank sits down into a hole and mounts to the frame. The radiator hose will not collapse. It is solid steel underneath the kevlar wrap. Check out Hosecandy.com The radiator hose is called their hose bones. You shape the bendable steel hose to your requirements. Then you slip the sheath over the steel hose with rubber slip joints on each end to fasten to your radiator and the neck on your intake. Shrink wrap tubing goes over the rubber slip joints and then a heat gun seals everything tight. No hose clamps and no leaks. It is as solid as a rock. The water neck shown in the picture is a new see through glass with the thermostat inside. When the engine is running you can see the coolant running through the glass. If you see bubbles inside the glass you are in deep trouble! Just have to finish the stupid body that I am so slow at body work. I hate the finishing part of body work molding and sanding. Train horns were fired up with only 25 psi. and they are outrageous. The system is set to run 180 psi with a shut off at 200 psi. Yep - Big Dog lives in The Villages too. I haven't seen him since Ocala