After repairing the major blowout on my air hose, I managed to finish sanding the drivers side so I could move it to the other bay. Another corvair job is coming in Sunday. Hopefully it won't take too long. Good to see my auto-exposure is working so-o-o well.

I know it looks about the same but there has been three coats of filler put on this side, two have been sanded off. I hope to sand the last coat tomorrow and move to the other side.
Wow, if you blow up the picture it looks like '57 Chevy fins!

Yay me! I finally got a chance to work on the little car. I laid out the template, drilled the holes and installed the modified Corvair rocker moldings. The left photo shows the retaining strip screwed in place and the right photo shows the trim strip in place. They were then removed and placed in storage with the rest of the parts. Tomorrow---more filling and sanding, the worst part of the whole restoration.

As you can see, the trailer is ready to go for inspection and registration. I can't mount the winch until I'm able to get the car on the trailer. The bed is eight feet long and five feet wide, I hope I can get the car forward enough to give me the correct tongue weight. I might have to load it on backwards so the engine weight is in front of the axle. We'll see, if nothing else I have a great utility trailer.

Apparently I don't have the hang of this yet. Too much time off. I stumbled across a good deal on a tilting, flat bed trailer to haul the Bianchina around on. Bought it, brought it home, took it all apart to clean, fix and paint and forgot all about taking before pictures. I'll post some when it's back together but not completely finished. I want to get it registered and tagged before completely finishing it. I'm planning on having an electric winch mounted on the front to load the car on but I'm afeared that might make it too hard to get a home built title. We'll see.

We finally finished getting my Dads estate finished, it will be listed tomorrow. I got back in the shop today and just futzed around getting used to it again. As promised, here are the before and after pictures of the cut down Corvair rocker trim. The finished length is 49.75 inches just to give you an idea of the scale. As soon as I can, I'll move the car into the working bay and install the mounting strips, drill all the holes and screw in stainless screws. I will then remove it all and store it and continue with the filling and sanding previously started. It's good to be back.

Haven't posted for a while but I've been sneaking in a little work on the car as time permits. I took a pair of 1965 Corvair rocker moldings and de- anodized them. I sent them out to be cut, shortened, heliarced, sanded, polished and buffed. When I get them back I'll clear coat them. Obviously they are for the Bianchina since I can't come up with the original trim pieces. I like these better anyway, they're streamlined so the car should go faster. GGGG I forgot to take before pictures but I will post pictures of the finished parts.
Being an executor is taking up wa-a-ay too much of my time.