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Sat Apr 03, 2010 8:26 pm

Detroit73super wrote: Hey Bob, nice meeting you @ Jaranson's today. Some good progress was made..Just scanned through your teardown and build. You weren't kidding about the rust and I love the pic of you standing on the chassis inside the body with no roof, like a gladiator. I'll be following your build from here on out. Later.

Erik

Yeah, it was good meeting you today at John's. We did get a little more work done on it after you left though. Not much, but a little more.

I told you that car was rusty. It was so rusty, that I named it Krunchy, because if you grabbed a spot on it it would literally crunch under the pressure of being squeezed. :shock: But if you look at my starting post dates (in the tear down thread), and some of the last posts in 2008 of this thread, you'll see about 90% of the work happened within 6 months after I got it. With the amount of repair work it needed, I spent a lot of time fixing it. Yeah that pic was taken after a very long day (work, plus working on the car), and after I'd already had a few cold ones. Roman tagged that pic as Captin Krunch. :P But that's how I test floors.

Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:38 pm

jesus and i thought my sqaure was buggerd , top work !! :D

Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:23 pm

Yesterday I raised Krunchy back up some. I only raised it up 1 spline all around, and I hope that's enough, as his new owner wanted it raised up a little (didn't have to be stock height). Here's some pics of him after being elevated from the ground.

He sure looks strange after seeing him lowered for the last 3+ years. :shock:

Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:40 pm

i dont know if i would be able to let kruchy go with everything you two have been through together!!!! if you dont mind me asking what prompts the selling?

-Trevor

Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:21 pm

VWporscheGT3 wrote: i dont know if i would be able to let kruchy go with everything you two have been through together!!!! if you dont mind me asking what prompts the selling?
-Trevor

Too many vehicles, and not enough time to drive them all. Plus the proceeds from the sale will go into Wolfie, and some other projects I have here.
I only say that, as I've probably only put 500 to 900 miles on him in the 3 years I've had him, and only a little over 100 this year alone. It's hard to justify keeping him if that's all I'm going to drive him. My 65 Notch probably only got maybe 50 miles so far this year, but I've had that car 11years now, and last year I put over 1400 miles on it. I've still got the Square-vert to finish up, and I've had that car 8 years now. It was a good city car, but it needed a roof to be more useful (lack of a roof limited it's use, weather wise).
Plus I feel it's time to let him go, as I got my enjoyment building him, and listening to people whine about why I would tackel something so rusty. :wink: I did it more as a challenege than anything else. 8) The trans was the only thing I didn't go thru, everything else got gone thru though.
The new owner was looking for a car that was basically done, you know, a turn the key and drive away car, not a project. His only request was that I raise it up some (he drives on some rough roads too). I offered to raise it back up to stock height, and install some stock tires and wheels on it, but he said what was there was fine, just raise it up a little. So I did.

Fri Sep 23, 2011 10:31 am

well i can understand your point of veiw Bob. I guess i get too emotionally invested in cars....