Project POS 24T

[Dave]

in reference to last night's post...
Rex and I drove to Annapolis last night to purchase a parts car which we will split. It has upgraded suspension (Rex gets that) and a manual tranny with a good spare engine, as well as other parts (I'll be getting that big stuff, we'll be sharing random bits). It was a really good deal and hopefully we'll be able to get most of our money back.
Our drive up was pretty much uneventful. We were a bit behind schedule, but that was a good thing to a point, since we didn't have to deal with traffic so much. We finally arrive at the rendezvous at about 8pm. Previous owner, Brian, as well as 5 of his redneck friends, were completely blitzed, so we knew we were in for it. Not only did he have it jacked up on his scissor jack with one wheel off, but he didn't even bother to turn it around so that we could back the car dolly up to him and make life easy. So, we went ahead and swapped the wheels over (he wouldn't agree to our price for his wheels) and tried to figure how we were gonna load it. We tried to push it out into the street behind the truck, but we soon discovered it is pretty hard to push a car when it appears that one of the calipers is locked up.
So, Brian calls one of his friend to bring his truck and tow it out into the street. 30 minutes later, he finally shows up. We get the truck into the street and loaded with not too much trouble. Meanwhile, Rex and I are having a very hard time concentrating, since Brian's incredibly hot girlfriend is now hovering around us.
We finally get on the road around 10:30 and everything was going smoothly. We had stopped and tightened down the straps, so we were pretty sure it wasn't gonna come off. Up on the interstate, we hit a merge lane (luckily almost zero traffic) and we hear scraping (mind you car had no muffler on it so it couldn't be that). Turns out that the jackhole who put on the driver's rear tire (that would be me) didn't tighten it all the way down. I just got the wheel on there so that I could drop the jack, and forgot to tighten them all the way down before we got going. End result, wheels is nowhere to be found, even after running back a mile behind the truck. Put the spare on, amongst large amounts of foul language, tightened everything down, and moved on.
Eventually we got it home and parked it in my driveway. I played with it some today, primariliy pulling panels for fiberglass molds. Soooo, without further ado....
interior yesterday

interior today

this morning

this afternoon