The good news is that the weather has been very mild, making it much easier to spend time in an unheated garage in January. The bad news is that I was away for almost 2 weeks. Actually that was good news too since I was skiing and teaching a leadership program at MIT.
I did manage to make some progress. I finished installing the cockpit panels. Here is a picture looking toward the rear where the seats will go. Notice the stick shift near the bottom center.
Here is a picture after the rear wall was installed. All this will be covered with carpet. The 2 squarish holes on the back wall are for speakers I hope to install, but that will be a whole project in itself.
I also put the rear sides on. This will form the trunk and rear wheel wells. I'll put the floor of the trunk in later after I'm sure I won't have to get into the lower areas again.
This is what it all looks like now. A friend thinks it looks like the Batmobile.
Maybe there is a slight resemblance, but you'll never catch me driving around with tights on.
The plan now is to get the body on tomorrow with the help of some of Ben's friends. Then I'll start fitting the hood, trunk and doors. I'll also see if some of the work I've done helped with the problem I found last July when the exhaust didn't line up with the body openings.
I'm excited to get the body on so it will look like a real car. Who knows what surprises this next phase will bring.
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