October 11, 2005
Not much going on here in my corner of the world. I am still waiting for news on that job I have applied for, but that can normally take a few weeks.
This past weekend I bought a new album by one of my hero's Roger Waters called Ca Ira. It's an opera based on the French Revolution and while I have apprechiated opera as a valid expression of music, I never personally like it much until this work. Waters was the bass player and principal writer for the British group Pink Floyd from 1969 until 1983, and for any of those who like Pink Floyd knows, they had a sort of operatic/classical style to them and Ca Ira is a great vehicle for Waters to show that flushed out more.
My brother Jim and I spent a few hours on Sunday working on the '68 Charger. We had been looking for the broadcast sheet in the seats and headliner (haven't found one yet). The guy we bought the car from had worked in a MOPAR dealership back during the late 60's and early 70's and he would regale up with stories of seeing those cars rolling off of the transport trucks from the factories.
Jim and I also harbored a sensation that perhaps this guy knew how to fix up these kinds of cars, having been there since they were new auto's. Boy were we wrong! In the few weeks the '68 has been in our garage bay we have stripped off probably 10 gallons of bondo and maybe only a few ounces was necessary. The entire passenger front fender was encased in a 3/4 inch thick shell of mud that made the fender look wavey (kind of like adobe hut walls), by the time Jim had wire-wheeled it down to bare metal we found that fender is almost mint! I had hypothesized that perhaps the guy we got it from did this to protect the metal, but that theory was shot to hell when we found he had covered rust up without grinding it down. Had that mud not come off, that rust would have spread to more and more metal.
This past weekend I bought a new album by one of my hero's Roger Waters called Ca Ira. It's an opera based on the French Revolution and while I have apprechiated opera as a valid expression of music, I never personally like it much until this work. Waters was the bass player and principal writer for the British group Pink Floyd from 1969 until 1983, and for any of those who like Pink Floyd knows, they had a sort of operatic/classical style to them and Ca Ira is a great vehicle for Waters to show that flushed out more.
My brother Jim and I spent a few hours on Sunday working on the '68 Charger. We had been looking for the broadcast sheet in the seats and headliner (haven't found one yet). The guy we bought the car from had worked in a MOPAR dealership back during the late 60's and early 70's and he would regale up with stories of seeing those cars rolling off of the transport trucks from the factories.
Jim and I also harbored a sensation that perhaps this guy knew how to fix up these kinds of cars, having been there since they were new auto's. Boy were we wrong! In the few weeks the '68 has been in our garage bay we have stripped off probably 10 gallons of bondo and maybe only a few ounces was necessary. The entire passenger front fender was encased in a 3/4 inch thick shell of mud that made the fender look wavey (kind of like adobe hut walls), by the time Jim had wire-wheeled it down to bare metal we found that fender is almost mint! I had hypothesized that perhaps the guy we got it from did this to protect the metal, but that theory was shot to hell when we found he had covered rust up without grinding it down. Had that mud not come off, that rust would have spread to more and more metal.
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