Kent came by the fort with his rig last Thursday night to pick up 195/2000. This was his first time meeting the beast up close and personal. Almost completely stripped, the beast was filthy. (A rallyx, rainy day mud bog excursion, and three years of collecting dust in a garage will do that.) Kent asked me to come down to the shop over the weekend to wash it up a bit to mitigate the amount of shit-talking from his professional neighbors.
So I strapped the roof skin to 464 and headed toward Gilbert yesterday.
Unfortunately, while the roof skin fits fairly nicely on the roof, it doesn’t stay there. Here’s to shoving it in the trunk on the side of the highway after less than a mile. Once I got to the shop, we rolled 195 out of the trailer, douched it up really good with non-diluted Simple Green, and I basically washed it a couple times.3
Dirty (before)
Soaking in Simple Green
Drip dry
All windows down or removed, roof missing. This was pretty nasty.
After: chilling at Precision Chassis Works
Michael (L) and Kent (R) discuss projects between an M3 and Boxster S (195 chillin’ in background).
No estimate on when 195 will be done and I’m cool with that. I’ve got plenty to keep me busy back at the fort. I’ll post updates as I get them. Could be done in two weeks, could be done in two months. Whatever’s clever. I’m pretty excited. This has been a loooooooong time coming.
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