[Hray]

friday dec 10, update,, or is today 11th, whatever I am losing track of days and dates...
137 hours, 21 days, 69 days to go.

Wired up the tail lights with the little connectors they provided, works pretty neat. I thought I was going to have to put on spade connectors and tape them up.

Got the shop cleaned up, put the tires back on the chassis, moved it over into corner, moved in body to begin work on it soon.

Since starting this 90 countdown I think I have only missed one day from working on the car. Looks like I have averaged a little over 6 hours a day on the project.

I started this project on Sep 16, 2009, I now have about 5 days short of two months into the build. First phase was 175 hours to assemble the chassis, chase parts, test drive the chassis and disassemble it all. I am now 312 hours into the build. I first estimated 500 hours for the complete build. Estimate time left 188 hours. If i can average 6 hours a day 7 days a week in 40 days I will have spent another 240 hours this is more realistic. That will leave 29 days to autorama setup. Enough time to allow for more overages on my time estimate. However if I need another 200 hours above my estimate the calendar will run out. Of course option 1 is to get more hours on the car each day. With some holidays there will be no work on the car. So while I am not racing the clock now, I have no time to slack up or there will be many many 14hours days near the end. I have been there and seen that movie and do not want a rerun of that if I can help it.

I do not anticipate many more changes, that will help, however, I cannot afford too many unexpected setbacks either. If no setbacks I think 240 remaining hours will be real close enough to get it done. I will know much better by new years. If I can paint it new years eve then plenty of breathing room.

By the way, thanks to Terry for his parts for the build, (today I dug thru your parts and used the stop light switch) and thanks to OFM for parts, and thanks to everyone else for suggestions and guidance.

only 7;15 California time, I am calling it a early nite.