well just at 6 weekd to the day, my grille front nose peice arrived today.... now to double check body mount to frame dimensions to ensure its straight to the frame...foots just about totally healed,, and should be spending some time back in the garage ..finally.......
Great news! Now thats how to spend the holidays, get a nice grill from Europe lock yourself in the garage and tape on the door "Do not open til x-mas." Glad your foot is feeling better. I can't Imagine How painful that must have been. Happy Holidays
yeah its great that it finally arrived.....but today i wake up and i'm coming down with the flu or ?????????so bad it sucks....seems my body is fighting to keep me away from my Lil Beast.....waiting for the doctor to open up and see about getting in there... oh and the burnt foot???wow i never realized how painfull 3rd degree burns are....yeah nothing i ever felt compares to it.... Happy Holiday's back at ya...and to all the other Hambers............
Sounds great, make sure you post some updated pic's as soon as you get it on there happy holidays to you and yours
I told you it would take longer that you thought, but the wait was worth while. Lets se a photo or two. I'm still waiting for the address to send the rear window glass!!!!!
thanks 37 fiat....looking and seen you're in lawrenceburg,,,my old stopmping grounds...ya need to load up a few pics of your topo, avatar looks interesting...lots of topolino lovers here, that's for sure...myself, Fiat Gasser, and Maddog are currently "working" on our fiats...there's several others here who own them, but most seem to be waiting for another project to get completed before going full bore into their topo projects..a few famous fiat drag cars here too that are active still are owned by members here...also Rich Venza is a Hamb member..he's the guy who ownded Rod N Race fiberglass body company for years..he's for sure a great source for topolino info and history..oh yeah, i must not forget Mr Bluto...............he's the european Simca guy...samer basic car as a topolino...he builds them for speed also..but he does it with the stock motors...and his wife is the fastest lady in europe!!! (i'll let him explain that one!!!!).............
Rich, i posted a pic at begining of this thread..but it wouldn't be the first time it didn't show up for anybody but me.... try it again.. .ya Herman said about 4-6 weeks so with the holidays and all it made fairly good time from the netherlands...(SP??)trim peices are rough, but i knew that going in,,,and the studs are sheared...thought maybe i'ld see about getting them over to Dan at Alumicraft to see if he could repair or build me new ones...all in all i'm happy with it..the rear screen is in great shape and all the factory hardware is there and in good working order too..i just have to get it all setup for tilting without hitting the ford spring pocket crossmember...thinking a slide forward and then tilt front hinge to mate up with the factory tilt hooks...after 11 years of tilting the vega wgaon's front , people would be shocked to see me without a tilt nose......i'll send ya an IM on shipping the glass...reallly looking forward to getting back to work on the Lil Beast....hey every car has GOT to have a name...right??thanks for picking a good one...........i get the body mounted and a rear end completed, then i can get it over for some roof and tail repairs......mark
Santa loves you TK - glad to hear you're getting back on track. We have expectations of pix of the grille when it's installed.
Hey all the Cool Fiat owners on this Post. First off : Mark.....nice you got your parts. Sorry to hear about your Foot I am just getting off some Head Yuk also. Hope you feel better and get to work on your Car. Bob-Rich and all. Have a Happy Holiday Heres a shot I think from Barona ?? Somebody sent it to me so not sure. Anyway who care its a..well ..ere..a Beautiful.....the Car Merry Christmas
Hey Kid, congradulation on the parts score. I see a white front end in your avitar, but thats it. Glad your foots getting better, ()dont know what the big deal was, you have 2 of them) I hope you can get the photo thing worked out, love to see what you are doing. I have a project (paying cash) spread out in the shop right now, but when its done in a couple weeks, I will be pulling you a mold off the rear of mine, as promised. Hope I am not holding you up. Your energy is motivating, keep it up.
Jim, didn't see your reply till today....mold for rear would be great, but i still haven't really gotten back out to the garage....been too cold and the deep freeze here makes my day at work long, but hey i'm commission, so .... makes me mad my pics never show up for anyone but me...thought i had that worked out......only thing i don't like about using the Hambs thing is that the pics are always so damn small, even after you click on them....but, here's the pic i tried to post, done alla Hamb.... let me know if this puppy loads.. my paper visor is feeling the effects on the cold weather...getting a bit droopey
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