da women an da jeep!

Alberts boss ....Shirley/ wife was't real happy about my graphic design work on the jeep,the skull on the back was a bit much,she said, why couldn't i just put some lady bugs on it or sumpin!Ok one lady bug coming up !
















I put it on the glove box so she can see it while hang on for dear life with Albert! The old glass packs have got to go too,so Albert can hear Shirley tell him where to go!! Their going to have tons of fun in this ride......and maybe one day Curtis can drive it too!

alberts cj-5 jeep

This is Albert's Cj it started life as a rusted out piece.Albert and his talented son ,Curtis whipped this dude out,and its real nice!A fiberglass and Kevlar body now adorns the chassis that was boxed in stressed areas and fitted with tougher parts so Curtis can hammer it with a little abuse from time to time.Calm down Albert ,that's what jeeps are for getting dirty!heck yeah!The underside of the body was shot with Speedliner bed liner with Kevlar,black in color,while the inside of the tub was shot with Speedliner to match the paint.This will make the interior easy to clean and make it durable too.Curtis "son of stinkin genius" prepped the body with epoxy Kirker primer and blocked it up,then shot it with Kirker Omaha orange, then water sanded the pig! I had the fun of puttin down some simple graphics and when that was done Curtis slathered it with clear kirker for that slick smooth look. Throw in some new seats , fat rubber on chrome wheels,fresh trim and it's time to cruise.Future plans for this neat jeep include a warmed up Chevy 327 that's sitting on the stand waiting for some mud to churn or rubber to burn!

waz next?

Still trudging along with the body work issues and when i finish that phase I'll get the last coats of primer done .Then i will start the under side of the car.Most of it has been sand blasted and now needs all the welding ground down and i will wipe some of those areas with "kitty hair ",a fiberglass product with small hairs of glass in side .This stuff sands like bondo,but will not absorb water ,just in case it gets it gets exposed in the future.This should not happen because I'll be using POR-15 and their chassis black paint which is very tough, i like this stuff but it gets all over me I'm a bit of a pig ! Albert hates it cause hes a pig also!You must clean it off quick because if it dries on your skin you can't get it off.We're gonna put 2 coats of POR-15 and one coat of chassis black ,semi gloss .But first the front end is going to be taken apart and painted before reassembling with new parts then Mikes Nova will start looking good !Next on to the rear end , which now has a mini spool and steep gears,we want a posi -unit and more street able cogs.For the axle rebuild we turn to KENNY GAINES ,of TWO BOBS RACING ,he's da main!and a great drag racer who just needs a bit more funds to better his racing program,don"t we all!!So any one out there who would like to sponsor us in a" Dixie Door slammer"come on down.Kenny has a great start on a tube chassis 55 Chevy that will be a bad tubbed drag /street ride with most of the slant to the drag side as it will be stuffed with a big cubed Chevy by Glenn Martin at "Custom Engines ", but i digress! Back to the Nova, we got some tubular sub frame connectors from Chassis Engineering that we hope to weld in before we POR-15 the bottom side of this pig.These will help keep the body from flexing when the right foot gets heavy!

Thanks Mom and Dad

Hey just gotta give thanks to my dear ole dad, W C ,"SWEET WILLIE WINE"!!Who sacrificed a promising country music career to have a family with his love ..Betty ,the glue of the family , with out their love and support things wouldn't be possible.They learned me well!!!Mom put up with a bunch of car crud and late nights in the garage ;ya see my dad was quite the mechanic and paint and body man!! Love yall, thanks for teaching me all you could!

One other member of our band of misfits needs to be mentioned here,the G-MAN..Garrett,shown here with the sand blast helmet on , this is to keep the traffic down on this site.If all the young honeys found out he was on here the total number of hits might over load the capacity of the system, and ID hate to have to call Al Gore and ask him to restart the whole Internet that he created!!Garrett is good help when ya can tear him away from guitar hero,the web games or his AXE, he is a pretty good picker.Also he has shown some interest in air brush work hopefully he will be a good addition for us. So when he is fabulously rich and famous maybe he could take a little time off from jet setting around the world to help us airbrush some goth skulls or something.

priming and blockin

Hopefully all the major body work is done now and the House of Kolor kd 2000 epoxy primer is applied and has cured for a few days.Now its time to set out to blocking it all flat ,which is soooo 's much fun!It"s labor intensive and dirty,but it is absolutely positively a basic must do.I like to use SEM spray guide coat or 3M dry guide to give a contrast while sanding the gray epoxy.This insures that all the lil dips and humps git smoothed out.We're gonna use 150 or 180 grit paper for our first block out, keep in mind we may have to do this more than once depending on how good the bodywork is ,or at my age how good my eyesight is!Three coats of the Kd 2000 were applied with two extra coats on the mud work, so we can get at it hard .If bare metal is exposed STOP! and add more primer so ya don't go too far and waste all your good work so far. PS. use the largest size block the panel will allow,and when your satisfied ya done the best job possible.... do it again !then squirt a few more coats on and get ready for the wet sanding action.

Heart to Heart

Some people will do any thing to get out of a little work !! And although "THE STINKIN GENIUS"is tough as nails he is no match for a little arterial plaque.He thought he could just tuff it out ,but we finally convinced him to go to the hospital the sorry dog is hard headed! MAN! my old partner had a heart attack!!remember blockage is not your friend !Well it could have been much worse and thanks to the big man upstairs, Albert's ok.So now i reckon he'll want to just sit around and watch Oprah ,eat" lite" bon bons for a couple of weeks to re coupe.I really hope the recovery process heals him up fast cause we already miss him!But he does look nice in in the hospitial gown.

Funky Firewall

The firewall had been previously been readjusted by the first owner with a sledge hammer to achieve room for a HEI distributor, we felt like it might look a little better if it was shaped up a bit .The big block would make the clearance issue a bit worse. The wiper motor poised a little problem we had to work around ,but we took what GM had provided and improvised a bit.As we discussed earlier the firewall was patched up where the heater box and fan were and all the was worked with filler at the same time.To make the recess for the distributor pieces of metal were cut and welded in to make each angle at the top and one piece was bent for the rest.Once again we brain stormed together and got "er"done, that plus Albert is a stinkin genius !!!!

quarter panels

The panels as well as the rest of sheet metal came from R&N Auto and Truck in Lexington Tn., really nice folks!,and a real hot rodder/drag racer too.The quarters are not full panels they don't extend into the sail panel area, but do go over the top edge of the quarter.We will trim these panels to fit and try to have them come out on a edge,so we are not welding on a large open flat area that can have more effect on warp age from the heat of welding.The welding will be done in spot weld form every couple of inches and then we will come back and weld small amounts at a time allowing the metal to cool in each area before continuing.We use clecos to hold the panels for fitting and panel clamps as we weld the butt joint it in .These clamps give the proper space to weld up and keep the panel joints flat to each other.As we cut out the old quarters it became apparent that outer wheel houses were needed too, what a pain !Alignment is very critical so they meet the wheel well opening , so we used clecos from Eastwood to hold it all together an proceeded to spot weld the wheel house in.After all the welding POR-15 was painted to the metal to prevent future rusting and all welds and seams were seam sealed. Its so pretty, its a shame to cover it with a fender!

Fixin the Flintstone mobile

The 69 had a little problem ,your feet would drag on the ground! This problem had been fixed by the previous owners , they had applied bathroom caulk and galvanized metal patches to cover up the rusted out holes ! Well at least they used galvanized stuff ! Were gonna approach it with a bit more stable materials!The process will be the same as the trunk repairs making sure all the braces are welded up good and they are painted with the Por-15 because you cant get to them later.We are going to do one side at a time so there is less chance of any body sagging or shifting, i'd hate to weld it all in and the doors not fit any more !!I just hope that poor ole chevy 427 will have enough power to make the Nova get up and go , cause welding up them holes will keep Mike's feet from helping with the go power!!If not maybe Miss Sindy Mike's gal, will have to just push it!!!.....Oh yeah thats happening!!