{"id":1447,"date":"2012-09-23T21:31:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T04:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2012-09-23T21:31:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T04:31:30","slug":"its-been-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/?p=1447","title":{"rendered":"It’s been two years!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s officially been two years since I flew up to Sacramento to drive this thing home:<\/p>\n

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It’s come a long long way since then.\u00a0 I broke the project into five phases:<\/p>\n

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  1. Disassembly\/teardown<\/li>\n
  2. Fabrication<\/li>\n
  3. Body & paint<\/li>\n
  4. Assembly<\/li>\n
  5. Tuning<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Phase 1 finished pretty quickly, I had the car stripped to the shell and off to John Coffey for fabrication, in just over 2 months – November 2010.<\/p>\n

    Phase 2 took 5 months, to the end of April 2011.\u00a0\u00a0A little longer than I originally anticipated, though not really all that long in retrospect.\u00a0 There may be a couple other things I need to have John fab up for me, but the key chassis elements are done.<\/p>\n

    Phase 3 was the one I feared the most – “paint jail”.\u00a0 We’ve all heard stories of guys with project cars sent off to the body shop, never to return.\u00a0 Pat Smith of Pat’s Custom Cars did a fantastic job in producing a quick turnaround, he had the car a bit over 4 months.\u00a0 Some of the speed might have been due to the solidity of the base car – very little metal repairs were needed, all the original panels were kept intact.\u00a0 Car was hope by September of 2011.<\/p>\n

    Phase 4 is where it’s been for the past year.\u00a0 Those that have done one of these can appreciate how long this part takes when you’re taking the time to “do it right”.\u00a0 Lots of things don’t fit right without a little tweaking, and it takes a long long time to get all the details done right.\u00a0 When you’re putting this much work into something, any little imperfect shortcut will be staring back at you forever.\u00a0 In addition to the sheer amount of work this step entails for me, life has been busy – the day job\/career has been going well but consuming 60-70 hours\/week pretty routinely.\u00a0 Earlier this year during my project’s pause, I started a new business and have been working to get it off the ground.\u00a0 Oh, and then there’s this guy:<\/p>\n

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    What was a tiny\u00a0few cells rapidly dividing when I bought the Camaro, is now almost one and a half years old.<\/p>\n

    Still chipping away at the to-do list.\u00a0 Even as things get knocked off, it hovers around 50 items long, as I discover new things along the way that need doing.\u00a0 I’ve also been cheating a bit, making some suspension tweaks along the way.\u00a0 Those parts could wait until after the car is on the road as part of the final Phase 5, but many of the tweaks are fun and simple to do, good projects when there’s only 30-40 minutes to work on things.<\/p>\n

    Usually after 2 years I’m thinking of moving on to something else – in this case, just getting started!\u00a0 The car should provide for a lot of fun for a long long time, in lots of different types of events.<\/p>\n

    To those that have been following the project this whole time, thanks for your patience!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Well, it’s officially been two years since I flew up to Sacramento to drive this thing home: It’s come a long long way since then.\u00a0 I broke the project into five phases: Disassembly\/teardown Fabrication Body & paint Assembly Tuning Phase 1 finished pretty quickly, I had the car stripped to the shell and off to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447"}],"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=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1455,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}