Day 21 - The car fights back

After going out to dinner tonight, Mike wandered into the garage to look at my '67. I went out with him and he looked over the car and thought a few things through. I then wandered back outside to finish scoping out rocks for an Owl I am painting for a friend. A few minutes later, Mike walks by and tells me that he wants to work on the car tonight. I was not going to stand in the way, but I was a little concerned seeing as it was already 8:30 pm at that time. I knew he wouldn't have a ton of time, but he did manage to get a bit done.

For the next two hours he worked in the garage, while I did some painting. I went out periodically to check on him and his progress, and to get pictures for blogging purposes. He managed to get a good portion of the floor up. We are going to take out the entire floor and buy a new floor in the next few months when the funding comes through.

The last time I wandered out, he showed me his bleeding hand. As he put it, he was ripping the skin of the car, so the car in turn ripped his skin. So needless to say, from here on out, he will be wearing gloves when dealing with the sharp metal. Its sad when he gets cuts and bruises from working on my car, but I guess its part of the process. At least it wasn't a cut worthy of stitches, and there were no ER visits. I am hoping we don't have any of those through the entire restoration.

Anyways, it was exciting to see some more progress being made on my car. I am so excited that someday soon my car could actually be restored. It is going to be an exciting day when its all done and put together. I am thankful that I have a husband that knows how to restore cars, and is willing to put the time and effort into fixing mine up. I am also thankful that we got the ball rolling again. Lets hope nothing else comes up that gets in the way. Now we have a deadline though. Tuacahn 2012... my car WILL be there!