This fine Saturday morning was to be the "sandblast to Hell Day", and unfortunately Rande Payne, and Aaron Zimmerman and I could just kick ourselves. The weather was cool and it looked like rain; consequently, the sand after aluminum oxide was not working too well.

The boys went to BS and E to see the rental yard's sandblasting equipment. Do you know the sound Tim Allen makes around tools? That is the precise sound out of my mouth looking at a monster sandblaster. $200.00 dollars later we have put down our names for the 24 hour rental of hoses, bucket - and I mean bucket and compressor for next weekend.

Looking back it was a great weekend though. It started with Forrest Brown and I driving all over Visalia to pressure wash "Nigel" before the big day on Saturday. There is more pressure on Barack in a den of college professors than the pressure that came out of the washers. My merry band of men now includes Joe Ackerman, a kind gentlemen with gobs of experience in cars, he loaned me the bucket for today's project. He will help with the rack and pinion installation. Now I am tired - happy but exhausted. It was a good day.

My great friend, Stuart and my neighbor Forrest went to town today. No, we didn't leave the house we worked for about 6 hours.

We removed the engine and unshackled the rear end.

It was a team effort today, ufortunately Stuart and Forrest did most of the work. I was good at cleaning out the rear of my one car garage. I suffer from garage envy...

Alas, at about 4 pm we shut down and high-fived.

It was great to roll the Hendricks Racing engineered carts with the body on one cart and the chassis resting comfortably on the other.

It is a blessing to have friends...