Well, it has been a LONG time since I posted here and now that I have a little time on my hands I thought I would catch up.
First, the Zombie 222. In our last attempt at the Texas Mile, I did clock a new top speed of 178.9MPH, but regrettably I damaged the battery which ultimately lead to a battery fire later at the shop. The car is OK, but the battery is toast. That means the car has been sitting for a long time with no source of power. The sponsor has not helped out in anyway so I am back to square one on building a new better battery from the ground up. We have not been working on it because we are so far behind on our customers cars.
The street legal race car, 1970 Camaro is completed and is unbelievable. I will post some pictures of the finished car later.
Since my partners only work part time as time permits and they all have families, progress on the 1966 Mustang and 1965 Lincoln is going slowly. Moving forward, but slowly. They will be some of the most sophisticated conversions ever done with things like active liquid cooling and wireless control, but when you are re-creating a "Tesla" from the ground up in a classic car with 3 part time guys, time will be a factor.
To keep my skills portfolio growing, I have taken up wood tuning and have been combining exotic woods, resins and stone and have a number of people purchase my output. I'll post of few pictures in a bit and add a link to my etsy store you want to see more. Not try to drum up business, just sharing for ideas.
Lastly, to keep my creative side exercised, I have created a humorous (at least to me) video channel for a character called the Mountain Oracle based 100% on my grandfather from the Blue Ridge Mountains. He was a gravelly voiced old man who would mess up words on purpose and acted real hillbilly, but was actually sharing wisdom in a funny way. He swore he got his knowledge from the mountains using his "psychotic powers and received them telegraphically, which was psychic powers and telepathically" and called them mountain oyster pearls of wisdom. As I've gotten older, I've been wanting to express common sense thoughts on current topics without getting sucked into the great political divide in the country and maybe make someone laugh once in a while. It is new, free and if you want to take a look and leave suggestions for future topics, here is the link to one of "impeachment for Thanksgiving". I've done some on the homeless debate, the new OK Boomer insult as well.
Stay tuned for car and tuning pics over the next couple of days and I hope everyone who loves garages and shops and tools has a GREAT thanksgiving...
