Saturday was a great day (6-3-2006). Doug from Rich's Classic Transport made good on the delivery with his 52 foot trailor filled with my Hurricane, some fiberglass jeep bodies from Shell Valley and a VERY nice, all aluminium Kirkham cobra. My cobra was deliverd on a very clever body dolly that allowed us to wheel the kit down the street (since mine is not what is called a "roller" chassis...I have to build it from ground up).
We easily rolled the car into my garage down the back driveway and into it's new home. Doug was filled with great stories of delivery timeless autmotive classics around the country. He is truly proud of he and his brother's business. Dough understands what a big occasion this is for the new owner and he has the best bedside manner. Truly a pleasure to do business with.
My in-laws, Steve and Katie Papoutsakis were very helpful during the day. Nothing like having some Greeks around to help move all those heavy boxes....They sure do know how to get the job done!
Now was the hard part of figuring out how to get the body and frame off the dolly. We decided to use my engine hoist and connect it to the cross member in the front. This way, we would only have to lift 1/2 the weight when removing the car from the dolly. We had jack stands in the waiting. Thank god I have this engine hoist. It is worth it's weight in gold
With the car on jack stands, I start to hope, pray and wish that with the body off, it will fit under the body buck. My "eyeball" of the situation tells me that the it might not fit under. The jack stands are at their lowest level. There are some higher subframe components that I can use with the jackstands to get the whole frame down closer to the ground. Need to get my head around this one. Other option are raising the body buck height (but don't think I have much more room above without hitting the body on ceiling) or cutting out a clearance at the bottom. Just have to work it out.
Now I sit and enjoy the work of the day....day dreaming about that 428 shoe horned into this little roadster. Next up will be prepping the body for the body buck.
posted by Khan Smith at 8:28 AM
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I've enjoyed following along so far, I've been looking at a Hurricane but can't find a way to import it into Indonesia. My brother offered his garage in Columbus, Ohio for the build if I stay with him and then he will "keep it in tune" while I return to Indonesia. Hope all goes well, will look forward to each new post. Post them on Clubcobra too if you have time.
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