{"id":1104,"date":"2011-09-01T22:19:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T05:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2011-09-02T10:49:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T17:49:33","slug":"back-home-at-last-phase-3-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"Back home at last! Phase 3 complete"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pat<\/a> brought the car back home last night.\u00a0 Looks fantastic!\u00a0 Can’t believe I’ve owned this thing almost a whole year now.\u00a0 I am extremely pleased with the work Pat did, and the timeline he was able to keep.\u00a0 The body and paint portion of this project was the one I feared the most.\u00a0 Heard so many stories of people getting their cars locked in “paint jail” for years, with bills piling up in the tens of thousands.\u00a0 Not here!\u00a0 He got the car done in 4 months, for the originally quoted price, which was about half of what some of the other big-name shops wanted.<\/p>\n

The foundation is established, it’s now up to me to get this thing put together over the fall and winter.\u00a0 Need to do all the wiring, install and plumb the brakes, the fuel system, install the driveline, cooling system, and interior.\u00a0 Tons of little odds and ends.\u00a0 I figure it’s about 75% done at this point.<\/p>\n

As for aesthetics, wasn’t really trying to reinvent the wheel here.\u00a0 The one place I tried to get creative (the door handles) was really a mess-up.\u00a0 The brushed aluminum Fesler door handles are really nice looking, but they don’t go with the stock chrome trim elsewhere-<\/p>\n

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Looks ok by itself, but alongside the other trim, not as much.\u00a0 Will probably just get a set of normal chromed pot metal handles.<\/p>\n

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Some more outside…since it may not see daylight for several months, tried to get a few with it in the driveway-<\/p>\n

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Here’s a few inside the garage, its new home for a while-<\/p>\n

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“FEED ME A 302” I can hear it calling… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Compare to where it was a year ago:<\/p>\n

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Come a long way, still a long way to go…hope I can remember how it all goes back together!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pat brought the car back home last night.\u00a0 Looks fantastic!\u00a0 Can’t believe I’ve owned this thing almost a whole year now.\u00a0 I am extremely pleased with the work Pat did, and the timeline he was able to keep.\u00a0 The body and paint portion of this project was the one I feared the most.\u00a0 Heard so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1120,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}