Texas82GP

[pontiacgp]

Jared, I'm wondering something. You have shown us the Ford rebuild and the Z28 rebuild. You guys do great work and pay attention to details but you have not really mentioned your Grand Prix. I'm wondering if you are hiding your Grand Prix from us and we are going to get slammed dunked by your creation....🙂

 

[Longroof79]

Steve,
I think being the good son and brother that he is, he put his own project on the back burner.

 

[pontiacgp]

Steve,
I think being the good son and brother that he is, he put his own project on the back burner.

could be, but then again you could be conspiring with Jared, I mean you hide your Porsche on us......😀

 

[Longroof79]

could be, but then again you could be conspiring with Jared, I mean you hid your Porsche on us......😀

I know...you're right about that. I didn't think it was necessary at the time.
No...I'm not conspiring with Jared....😉

 

[Texas82GP]

Jared, I'm wondering something. You have shown us the Ford rebuild and the Z28 rebuild. You guys do great work and pay attention to details but you have not really mentioned your Grand Prix. I'm wondering if you are hiding your Grand Prix from us and we are going to get slammed dunked by your creation....🙂

Steve,

I wish I was making killer progress on the car and was going to be able to hit you guys with some awe inspiring update but what Jack said is closer to the truth. I haven't worked on the Camaro since before I got sick last year (sometime before September of last year). About the time I got sick Sean had selected a painter and took the car apart. The car sat in the garage, taken apart until sometime in February when Sean got disgusted with that painter, put his car back together and started driving it again. Thanks to James (JAMCAR223), we got hooked up with a painter he knows in March. This painter is a great guy and has done everything he said he would do and when he said he would do it. The car's been over there for about 8 weeks and will likely come home this coming weekend. Once it does, there is a punch list I will be helping my brother with.

As soon as I got to feeling better, earlier this year, I was needed again to help with the metal work on Dad's car, since I'm our welder. Sean is fantastic at measure, mark, cut and all the credit for how well the patches fit up go to him. I'm just the welder but I was needed so that's where I was. By the time I wasn't needed, when they shifted to the body work, it had gotten too hot over at the storage for me to want to be over there working on the GP so I jumped on the first Toploader. Besides, Dad's car comes first. I should have plenty of time to finish my car later. It is time for Dad's car to get finished. He's been at it since about 1990 and its time to get it done and see him enjoy it. They are never really done but I think they both (the Camaro and the Galaxie) will be substantially complete before the end of the year and I'm very comfortable that we will be able to take both on the Power Tour next year, which has long been our dream (for the three of us to go and do this together). Once we get into late September I will start going back to the storage and working on my GP. I plan to hit it hard this fall and winter. That was the plan last fall but I fell ill and had major surgery and felt like death warmed over from about November 2nd to the middle of January. Dad and Sean are both highly motivated to help me with the GP when we get over the hump with their cars and spending the time with them is irreplaceable so I'll be looking forward to it. I don't know if mine will be ready by next summer for the Power Tour but I'm not going to sweat it. Two out of the three will be quite acceptable to me.

 

[Longroof79]

Jared,
I hope you've been feeling a lot better since the whole surgery and recuperation episode.
I forget that you've been through a lot this year. I'm glad you're back with us and have been active. Keep on keeping on, my friend. I salute you.

 

[pontiacgp]

Jared, you didn't need to make a lengthy explanation. I was just bugging you. I know what it is like to get sick have all your energy gone. You need to get healthy again so you can enjoy working on your car, it should never feel like it's a job that needs to be done it just be the part of your life that you get enjoyment from. It's great that you have a team to work with on the projects and that it's rare that there is group of enthusiasts with so much talent in different fields. If my dad was still around I would do the same as you, get his done first and yours will take a back seat. It's great that you have shared those projects with us cause there is nothing more important than family and friends working together and it's nice to see that in this world of immediate gratification that the old world still exists.