Re: HA's 52 200 Grey Ghost
Posted by Hans Ahlness On 2014/12/21 23:34:43
Ha, yep the hangar isn't ideal but I have my work shop just down the road with my big tool box, lots of shop equipment and heat which is nice. So the components get done over there during the winter.
Haven't had much time to work on the car recently, I was flying all over most of last week and the weather has been low crap for the last week and a half. Getting my instrument flying skills polished up, in case I'd been getting lazy at all. Plus I spent last weekend doing the annual inspection on my plane (the one you see in the pictures sometimes) so we'd be good to go for flying around over the big metroplex area to check out everybody's Christmas lights. Gives you a neat perspective from 1000 feet up.
I got a present (well OK, I did have to pay for it) in the mail today from Mike Borth, a set of taillight housings, a backup light assembly, and a glovebox emblem that are all better than the bent, missing, or broken ones on the Ghost. The taillights are more pitted than my originals, but aren't bent or scraped and the chrome shines up without rubbing off like the old ones. Now, I have to figure out how to get the bent taillight area on the right rear fixed up so the new, non-bent housing will fit. I need to make friends with someone with bodywork skills for that.
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Haven't had much time to work on the car recently, I was flying all over most of last week and the weather has been low crap for the last week and a half. Getting my instrument flying skills polished up, in case I'd been getting lazy at all. Plus I spent last weekend doing the annual inspection on my plane (the one you see in the pictures sometimes) so we'd be good to go for flying around over the big metroplex area to check out everybody's Christmas lights. Gives you a neat perspective from 1000 feet up.
I got a present (well OK, I did have to pay for it) in the mail today from Mike Borth, a set of taillight housings, a backup light assembly, and a glovebox emblem that are all better than the bent, missing, or broken ones on the Ghost. The taillights are more pitted than my originals, but aren't bent or scraped and the chrome shines up without rubbing off like the old ones. Now, I have to figure out how to get the bent taillight area on the right rear fixed up so the new, non-bent housing will fit. I need to make friends with someone with bodywork skills for that.
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