The Body is On!

We received our replacement shocks and got them installed. We wasted no time dropping the body onto the chassis.

We took a quick drive down the street to test out the brakes on our nasty garage wheels, and the brakes work great!

While the body settled back onto the chassis, we tackled a few things that don't require the body to be bolted down. We cut the roll bar padding, drilled some drainage holes in the rear hatch opening, installed the fuel filler door, and built some wooden ramps to raise the car far enough off of the ground to use our floor jack.

We also covered the switch panel with vinyl and installed the switches. If you click on the second picture you can see the labels that we had made last spring. The company that made them was swept away by the April tornado in Tuscaloosa.

We also addressed a few pieces that prevented the body from sitting in the same spot that it did when we were doing body work. The changes will now start coming very quickly. We'll try to remember to take pictures so you can see the progress.