Project TNX
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- Joined
- Nov 18, 2006
Ugh, I have tried so hard over the years to complete my dream car. I tried to paint it myself 4 years ago and ruined it, and when I did it took the wind from my sails and I just let the car sit in my garage, untouched, covered in dust. I was so depressed about it, and life in general, that I didn't even visit this site.
My personal life went to complete sh*t in the meantime as well, my stepdad, who was like my father, lost his mind, a violent paranoia dementia, which in turn caused my turn commit suicide. I was going for guardianship of him and he died during the process in a horrid fashion 2 weeks after I discovered my wife was having an affair. This all happened within a 1 year time span with so much drama in between that I don't even want to delve into it, but needless to say those 12 or so months led to many more months of depression. But hey, life happens and you get through it and onto better things, which is where I am today.
I finally decided enough was enough and loaded the car up on a trailer and dropped it off to a real body shop. He just finished painting the main shell for me. It looks great. I went with Dark Garnet Red Code 76 (not to be confused with Dark Red Poly Code 79, that we all call Dark Garnet Red, lol). I'd be trailering it to my house right now if it wasn't for this damned snow storm coming at us. He's putting the GNX flares on for me but I am having him leave the front end parts off for me since I still have to finish plumbing it, installing the lines for the hydroboost, and installing the Razor's alcohol kit.
I'm sure I will be posting a ton more, most likely asking "where's this go?" since it has been so long since I worked on the darned thing, lol. It's a good thing I bagged up the parts with labels, but I know I am still going to be a bit lost. My goal is to get this car on the road by the end of March.
My kid was SO small when I originally had it "ready" for paint.
It's nice to be excited again!!
Brent
My personal life went to complete sh*t in the meantime as well, my stepdad, who was like my father, lost his mind, a violent paranoia dementia, which in turn caused my turn commit suicide. I was going for guardianship of him and he died during the process in a horrid fashion 2 weeks after I discovered my wife was having an affair. This all happened within a 1 year time span with so much drama in between that I don't even want to delve into it, but needless to say those 12 or so months led to many more months of depression. But hey, life happens and you get through it and onto better things, which is where I am today.
I finally decided enough was enough and loaded the car up on a trailer and dropped it off to a real body shop. He just finished painting the main shell for me. It looks great. I went with Dark Garnet Red Code 76 (not to be confused with Dark Red Poly Code 79, that we all call Dark Garnet Red, lol). I'd be trailering it to my house right now if it wasn't for this damned snow storm coming at us. He's putting the GNX flares on for me but I am having him leave the front end parts off for me since I still have to finish plumbing it, installing the lines for the hydroboost, and installing the Razor's alcohol kit.
I'm sure I will be posting a ton more, most likely asking "where's this go?" since it has been so long since I worked on the darned thing, lol. It's a good thing I bagged up the parts with labels, but I know I am still going to be a bit lost. My goal is to get this car on the road by the end of March.
My kid was SO small when I originally had it "ready" for paint.
It's nice to be excited again!!
Brent
