Body in teh air!

Our friends Soctt, Laura and Angela were over and I made good use of them! Hoisted the body up on its "body buck" and got it in the garage.

Cobra Day!

It's cold. Cold, cold, cold. 26 degrees, in fact! You can see the mustang carcass on the side of the house, and the stand for the cobra body in the garage. I've been calling it the loft, just because it reminds me of my dorm room loft and essentially serves the same purpose!

Did we mention it's cold?
Here's Martin, our driver, and a heck of a nice guy. Not a great sense of time, but a really nice man.

Inside the special truck. See the red thing up top? They use it to lift the body, move it down the truck, and then lower it onto a dolly.

See there's the dolly, and my very happy husband!

And here's where they are pulling the body out.

Now you can see they whole thing. There's that red arm part again, lowering it.

Rolling into the garage.

They said the instruction manual is located in box #1 (of many, many boxes!). That seems good.

Gen wasn't sure what we were doing, but she was interested all the same!
Mike, Cole and Micah came over to see.

Tracking Martin

Well, tracking Martin, the delivery driver, is much like tracking Santa Claus... but you can really narrow Santa's delivery schedule down to one night.

Martin drives a truck specially fitted to deliver these kits. And that's all he delivers. So he set out from Boston, went by Georgia, then Florida, then he had two deliveries for Amarillo.

On Saturday, Martin told Rob he'd be here Tuesday. Rob reminded him that was Christmas Day, so Martin said he'd be here late Monday. Hmmmm... not much better, since it's Christmas Eve.

On Monday, Martin said he'd deliver first thing Wednesday morning.

Late on Monday, Martin said he'd be here at 10 am Wednesday.

On Tuesday, Martin said he'd be here in the afternoon on Wednesday.

On Wednesday morning, Martin had a flat tire, and he said he'd be here about 8 pm.

At 6, the celebratory pizza and beer were here. But no cobra.

At 8, Martin said he'd be here about 11.

At 10, Martin called from Childress. He said he'd be rolling in about 12:30 Thursday morning. We told Martin that the next morning would be fine. He said he'd be here about 9.

At 9:40, Martin rolled in. And as you can see, there was much rejoicing.

First Post... Lots Done Already!

Hi Everyone!

Well, this is my log and notebook for something I've wanted to do for a long time... build a Factory Five 1965 Cobra Replica. http://www.factoryfive.com/

I'll lay out my plan first. I'll be dismantling and using the guts from my 1985 Mustang. What a rusty POS! Fortunately, most of what I'll be using out of it is good. I'll have to do some refurbishing, but not too much. The one thing I won't be using is the rear axle, as I've opted for Factory Five's independent rear suspension option.

I've got the Mustang in the garage and about ready to sell or haul off, whatever the case may be. About the only thing left to do is yank out the engine and trans. I'll be glad to watch the carcass of the 'stang go away!

A hit list of recent things I've accomplished!

• Arrived today-NEW OEM 2003 Cobra front control arms
• Spindles, front brakes-removed
• Gas tank-removed
• Rear axle-removed and SOLD
• Parking brake handle & cables-removed
• Radiator-removed
• Steering-removed
• Pedal box-removed (that SUCKED!)
• Other stuff that I can't remember right now-REMOVED!