(03-23-2009) Do these wheels make my ass look fat?

Finally was able to test fit the wheels with the fenders on. The back wheels stick out almost 7 inches past the rear fenders and the fronts stick out about 4.5 inches too far. Not sure what I'm going to do. Cut the fenders? Go fenderless? Run the fenders as is and go for the fat-tire look? Just have to do some playing and figure out what works the best... The best solution would be to make some fenders that fit the wheels, but...

(03-22-2009) What's going on...

This weekend we had a movie day in the shop on Saturday. Lots of great food (Thanks Shanon for being so great!!!), some interesting movies and a great time with friends.

Sunday, I spent most of the time cleaning up and mowing the yard. On the good side, I did get a media center PC up and running in the living room and Jayme's Ms. Pac-Man machine is working again. On the bad side, my wheel adapters didn't work out of the box, but I think they will work with a little massaging. Also, I stripped the paint and gunk off one of the wheels for the Beetle and started sanding it and polishing it.

Earlier in the week, Jody, Shanon and myself went to Eureka Springs so that I could work on video games and pinball machines. Fixed a couple of issues and dropped off an NBA Jam machine that had been in the shop all winter. I picked up a Ms. Pac-Man machine while I was down there that would reset itself after just a few seconds of play, but it appears that it just needed a little cleaning of one of the switches to fix this issue. Thanks to Jody for helping me out and letting me use his truck to haul everything.

(3-15-2009) Beating and banging on the Beetle

Did a little envisioning of what the wheels might look like on the car. The back wheels are 10 inches wide, but the wheels don't have any tires, so the front wheels were used in the picture and just rolled in place to give the illusion of the wheels on the car.

Did some more grinding on the welds and sanding the filler. The rear sections are shaping up and getting close to being ready for primer and paint. Not sure if I can use the rear fenders or not with these new wheels.

It was a good day working around the house and on the car while Shanon, my babygirl, and my son, the Goose, were playing basketball and Wii Fit. Every day should be this good. Good times like this never last long enough.

(03-14-2009) It's warming up!!!

Spring is just a week away. The showers are starting to fall, the trees are budding out and temps are on the rise! That means soon I'll have no excuse not to finish the body work on the Beetle.

Shannon came over yesterday and finished installing the heater in the shop. He did a great job, and it will be great if we have movie day out in the shop on a cold winters day - like next weekend for example. :) I owe Shannon some beer for helping me out.

(03-03-2009) It's been far too long...

Nothing much has happened for the past month. It's been too cold, icy and snowy to spend much time out in the shop right now, but the weather is getting warmer and my thoughts are turning to getting the Beetle back on the road.

Flash just called to let me know that he had done a bit more welding and patching on the Beetle and that I should get my butt in gear and finish it up. Good motivation!

On February 13th, Flash and I did go look at a 1929 Chevy as a rat-rod project. It was a bit too much of a project for me, but the guy who owned it was very cool. We could have spent all day talking to him, and in fact, we almost did.