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Lots of work over the weekend —- got some touch up to do, and then some serious cleanup to do. For the moment, the cars are getting a bath as it will not stop raining in SE michigan now.

@Bob Heine , @burger — While I love my C4, and really appreciate the fact that it can achieve twenty-something MPG, the ‘polarizing’ part of the ownership is that the market took a serious toll on these cars, and from an outsider’s perspective (ie: someone who doesn’t know nor care about...

Burger: Thanks again for dropping by! C4’s are a polarizing corvette. The market has not been kind to these and they made a lot of them. Rock Auto is alright for parts, but for my money - the easier places that I have worked with are Corvette Central or MidAmericaCorvette. Corvettes are fun...

burger - thank you for dropping by! …So - we’re splitting the garage in half to take care of the drywall repair and priming. The floors don’t really care, as I am running the leaf blower to clean the drywall dust. Then, when the paint is tossed in the mix, we will be pulling the cars out...

Things are happening in the garage over here — lots of repair, and movement of chit, and hopefully this will be worth the effort. I can say that: the white primer coat on about 1/2 of the garage really brightens things up. The plastic boundary layer is a bit annoying when the wind catches it...

Yesterday I had a game in the evening, and a small break in my schedule on one of the days that I was able to WFH. So, I took my “lunch” and was able to pop the interior casing back in. Sounds easy, right? Of course, I had to do a little work on the baseboard that was adjacent because the...

Time for another update, size small. Things are happening in the garage, but things are also rather busy this time of year for me. Therefore, we’re gonna be knocking this project off in bite-sized chunks and maybe we will finish it off some time before the end of the summer. With the baseball...

Can you tell us a little bit more about the plastic cover you’ve installed over that garage door? Does it throw off the adjuster with the added mass? What is it?

Ok - time for another tiny update. We’ve moved a table into the laundry area, as well as one of the shelving units from it’s original location in the area that is formerly known as the laundry room. We also grabbed another pair of horse-stall mats from TSC, and moved around some things to get...

Time for another little update. Late last week, schedules did not align, and I had to roll with a neighbor to get the washer and dryer into the basement (with the borrowed appliance dolly). The short end of this story is that — we have the laundry room/area “in service” on Monday of this week...

I figure (for good measure) I can put a couple pictures in the mix with the drain-installation process. As an aside, I never remember how strong that glue smell is until I have to use it for an extended period. yuck.

Time for an update. A couple weeks went by - one of which I got the distinct privilege to go out west and ride my snowboard for 6 straight days, and over 150 miles (+ >100k in elevation). The specific spot that was ripped will not be specifically mentioned, because when you don’t have lift...

Congrats on the impending addition. Lots of adventures to come in the pie-factory for sure. If your wife is anything like Mrs. Robey - it’s gonna take a bit of time before you can sneak this youngster in the back of the air-cooled beaut.

Good stuff here on the P-car and all the other projects. It took me a very long time to navigate the P-car pitfalls to determine where the “best money” is spent, but it sounds like you are enjoying your car. It is interesting that the seller was “banned“ from rennlist, but whatever happened...

Operation move laundry room has been moving right along with small parts of the project coming together slow, but nicely. I was able to get the dryer vent routed with a back-draft preventer (plastic type) - though it took me 3 tries, and having to re-do things is never fun. For the dryer, i...

Yes. The “purple board” is supposed to be used in applications that you are potentially concerned about the possibility of mold. This stuff is supposed to be able to resist mold and such. Time will tell if that is actually going to be the case, but I figured that it would be worth the extra...

Last night I was able to install a portion of the dryer vent. I‘d say that this is kind of the hardest portion of the dryer vent, however, i will have a few bends in the mix from the point of getting from the dryer to the exit. I will also be installing a back-draft device to attempt to make...

This weekend, I was able to knock out the gas line, put the baseboard down and put some protection up while I do the ‘next’ things. One of those next things was to buy a 4.25inch hole saw, because my 4inch would require me to trim away for the dryer vent line. With any luck, I will be able to...

This week I was able to put some more time into the wall; I will let the pictures speak for the results thus far. For (future) reference, I was able to put a reinforcement for hanging shelves and such at 60 and 88 OC from the floor. Next up, I am going to get into installing the gas line for...

I “like” the idea of making all of that trim black - however, if you’re going for period correct, stock is chrome (even though I have never been a lover of the abundance of chrome some OEMs chose to use over the years). In the end here, the $800 gift tax for new chrome trim would make me PC it...