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Wow!! She’s sharp and smooth!!

In the second picture on the ridge, looks like it’s super soft but the ridge line is solid. 

Too hot out there now and in August. 

Halloween 🎃 is usually the first big weekend at dumont kicking off the start of the winter dune season. 

If the weather has cooled off some before then people will start making trips on the weekend. Dune season lasts into March- May depending on how quickly the weather heats up. 

Glad it’s fixed. 

Taking my car to a shop to do some tin work. I’m excited to see what they can do. 

Wanting to pull the quick change out and make some changes. Would prefer to have a pro do some aluminum work but need to take care of this first. One of these wiring gurus will are on the want list too but not ready for that yet. 

Working tomorrow. 

I’ve got to give credit to SandDuneSam for shooting the picture on my phone to add to the forum. I was informed tonight that it was a long walk around so as not to leave footprints in the sand. 

You see see what I did there with the new site feature 😜🤯

Absolutely!! Nice to meet you as well. 

You would think he’d prefer the other side of the road 🤔

Maybe it was too rough on that side. 

Btw the road condition was 100% better than the weekend before except right at the river crossing. Thanks to whoever fixed it up 👍

Pete I don’t see your moon picture in here. 😉

Yesterday. So nice!

I put the hood on side burner for now. Hindsight is 20/20 though and I should have just finished it instead of jumping to the dash. I really wanted to take care of the dash first but I got distracted with the hood. Anyway here’s a couple pictures. Still more to do but I like how it’s coming along. Just a lot of work. 

Get us some better pictures. Looks like a cool car. I’d like to check it out a little more. 

No price to lowball

The pictures of the moon you put together is killer!! Nice ride report.

I vote for photo of the month February 😁

Hhmmm. Do you not like the shape or? Or just like to see the motor in the open?

For me I want to cut it back so it’s not so far forward. It’s just sitting on there. I was going to put some tape on for different cut lines to shape it some. 

Thought I would update this. I’ve been toying with some aluminum tins for the car. Here’s a couple pictures of what I came up with. Still working on the (hood) still trying to envision it. 

I am open to thoughts or ideas. 

That guy is nuts!

Makes an awesome video though. 

My mom had one just like this but in blue. It was one of the nicest riding and driving car in our group. 

How’s this? Thanks to Neal for the awesome camera skills 

I didn’t get a single picture. I’ll have to see what my son took. I left my phone in the trailer and didn’t pick it up until we left. 

The buggy weigh in was fun too. I’m glad to know I wasn’t the only guy in the 3,000 lb. plus club. 3150 for me. 

Pete I think I figured out why my car was like 25 lbs. heavier on the left rear. The differential oil cooler is on that side. 

Thanks for hosting Pete. It was nice to meet you and get to take part. 

We wound up rolling in late Friday night. 

It was fun to see so many nice cars Saturday morning and the varying setups. 

I never made made it to the end of the rides though. Saturday morning we helped get the red mid engine apart after breaking a heim. About 5 minutes after we got going my son threw up, what a mess so we went back to camp. 

The ride to take a photo was fun. After we got going again from there I wound up stripping out a cv cup when it pulled off the shaft. Trying to figure out why it did that. Thanks to mustache Motorsports and his group for running back to camp and bringing a jack and a spare cup I had in the trailer. 

I had an awesome time for our first ever roundup and will be looking forward to meeting more people next year. 

Planning to be there. Pulling in Friday morning. 

It will be our first time to the event. Looking forward to it. 

I had a shortstar in my last car. It was a good motor but I went through 3 of them. Head gasket every time. It was cheaper to get another donor than to fix. They were getting harder to find when I got the last one. 

You have great advice from previous posters. All good power units to choose. 

I went to Pismo Saturday and while it was a awesome sand fix, it somehow left me wanting so much more. 

The car actually ran and was a lot of fun. Still some things to do but man I had a blast and have been left wanting more. 

Oh yeah definitely. I was impressed with how the car worked. Suspension cycling was good for out of the box. I never even grabbed a wrench for the bypasses. It can use some tuning on that but for the seat time I got it was working nice. 

The thing didn't slide as good as I expected. The red car I drove slid the rear much easier. It was running a wider paddle. I'm sure that had a lot to do with it. I might change them out, but for now I just want to get some more seat time before doing that.