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Another Cobra dream - and blokes shed
Modena & Boxhead inspired me to make my own blog about my dream too - starting with my shed (slow work day...)
Check it out - guye-cobra.blogspot.com |
good stuff Guye, keep us informed with the progress!
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Some minor progress on the shed.
I finally got the gas meter relocated. That was a BIG hurdle. I started demolishing the existing shed, and set a footing for a retaining/bracing wall today. Had mini-me cleaning the bricks - he is ken to get started on the Cobra too, and saw this as a way to expedite things. I also paid him 50c a brick! More details on my blog: My Shelby Cobra Replica Project http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/d...m/IMG_4463.jpg http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/d.../IMG_00453.jpg http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/d...m/IMG_4465.jpg http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/d...m/IMG_4470.jpg |
Another step forward - great to see
LB |
Keep it up, before long you will have your Cobra house ready.
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Great blog Guy, top idea building with your son, I started out my build the other way around.....inviting my 70y/o Dad to help out.
Good luck with the Cobra Pit! |
great to see the work has started guye, keep it going!
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Guye....So has KEVIN had a stay of execution!!....gauging by the meter relocation!!...Great to see you barrelling ahead with it...are you keeping count of those bricks???.. :)
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230 bricks so far - Cam's cleaned 120 of them - but there is at least double that to go so it will add nicely to his bank balance.
Haven't broken the bad news to him yet - he has to pay for half the Cobra build! |
Shed complete
LoBelly and a few others asked how my shed was going last week at the monthly club meeting, and I mentioned it was finished. I was chastised. Quite right too.
No pictures = didn't happen! So here you go. More details on the blog if you want. Pretty well did everything myself, except screed the concrete (chickened out cause its a bit hard to fix that if you stuff it up!). This toy was fun for the day! http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/d...0/image140.jpg The roof structure. http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/d...0/image141.jpg The roof decking. http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/d...0/image142.jpg Prepping the floor. (Last minute the night before the concrete was due to arrive, of course). http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/d...0/image143.jpg The scary bit for me (glad I had a builder mate who knows how to screed). http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/d...0/image144.jpg Some more internal structure now the floor's done. I installed LED lighting throughout so vision will not be a problem. Well until the bar fridge goes in anyway. http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/d...0/image145.jpg http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/d...0/image146.jpg http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/d...0/image147.jpg And some shelving plus a decent strong work bench. Plus the tool cabinet I got for my birthday last year. http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/d...0/image148.jpg |
Oh, and in the last picture you might just be able to see my CobraCam on the wall to the right of the strip light.
This partly for security, but also to track the cobra build progress. Hopefully, if I do it right, I'll collect thousands of images which I will be able to stick together to make a time lapse movie of the build when I am done! Currently it is triggered by motion (and also change of light). Here was Tuesday's snap. http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/d...0/image139.jpg |
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Seriously though, your "shed" is looking AWESOME! |
It,s coming along well Guye, won,t be long before you hear the pitter patter of little Cobra feet on the floor.
Funny enough, my first job in 1964 was cleaning bricks on a demolition site for 8 quid a thousand. If yourson requires training in the finer points of brick cleaning get him to look me up, I am easily recognised, I,m the dude with his fingers worn down to the second knuckle |
Coming along nicely there. If your Cobra-cam is anything like mine then over the course of a few years you wil end up with thousands of pictures of your Cobra sitting in the dark, and about a dozen of you actually working on it
http://bencobra.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/garage2.jpg And occasionally some blokes might drop by to confirm that, you are, in fact, not doing much http://bencobra.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/garage1.jpg |
Top Job Guy
Looks like you're primed to go LoBelly |
Excellent
Guye
Looks great so far. Looking forward to following the progress, especially with the camera. When you are done it should look something like this Thanks, again to Craig for the loan of the camera. And I had to do plenty of messing around to ensure that there wasn't too much footage of just hanging around or head scratching. Geof |
Great video Geof. I like how the engine seemed to lower itself into the engine bay without any guidance!
It was also interesting to see the "to do" list on the whiteboard fluctuating throughout. Very cool! |
Great video Geof...
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That's cool!!!
I'm impressed you can build your car in only 4min 26sec. An extra second though, would have been really fitting considering the car! :p Thx for sharing. |
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