May 17

Cowboy has the angle iron welded on the Camaro and is ready to put the Nissan body on it to make it the Caprisun.

Once again, I have no pictures of the actual putting the body on the frame because I am involved in the whole putting the body on the frame process. I should get the tripod out next time we do this and take a video. It's probably the most precarious, insane thing we do in each build.

Tada!! Caprisun! Well, Nissan on a Camaro. I know, it's just weird. Honestly, at this point I have just weird feelings about this. Is it a 280zx, is it a Camaro, is it just something new itself?  No idea. I feel kind of bad for the cars too. One had insides that needed to be updated and replaced, one was just dorky looking. Now we have one whole car and lots of parts.

I do have to say though, whatever this new caration is, it likes how it looks and it's new insides.

May 14

I came home from dance class to a chicken in my driveway. Well, not a real one, but the cars always look like they have chicken feet when they are up on jacks.

May 13

Up until now everything has been pretty similar to our other resto-mods. This is where it starts to deviate. Cowboy is excited about this one because of the new challenges this presents. Also because it's similar to what we will be doing with the Charger when we put it on the Challenger.

Cowboy braced the Camaro in preparation for this cut. He has to remove 10 inches of LENGTH from it so it fits inside the Nissan. I think he delights in this style of problem solving and feeds his inner mad scientist/engineer as he was slightly giddy when he was cutting the car apart.

Cutting out the middle of the car. (That sounds so wrong. I mean seriously, who does this?) Oh, that's right, we do.

After the cut

Sliding it back together.

May 11

More cutting and trying on new clothes. Look how awesome those fenders are!

May 10

We started out this morning running car errands. The Yard, the welding shop, and a few other places. I love The Yard. They have such a huge variety of things, tools, metal, fabric, foam, carpet, military surplus. It's just cool.

 This is the metal area on the south end of the yard, Cowboy is off to the north end getting the metal he'll use to strengthen the Caprisun's frame.

 

Cowboy on his way back to the Apache after getting his metal. He looks all broody and Longmire-ish in this photo. However, he was quite pleased because once again, metal was on sale. 

 Later that afternoon Cowboy used his amazing reciprocating saw skills. The Camaro is down to a shell. People don't quite believe him when he says he cut it apart with a saws-all.

Eldest minion holding the AC unit out of the way so it doesn't get cut. (Side note, he didn't cut it or set it on fire when he was welding it later.)

Skateboard Camaro. I know, it's weird to see someone just cut a car up like this. But wait, it's going to get weirder with the Caprisun yet.

May 9th

Nice, I managed to delete the wrong post about today. Otherwise you would have already seen these photos.

  We spent today stripping the Nissan down to its shell.  I did get to make this weird discovery:

Oh, what is that you ask?  A snail shell and a pretty good sized one. Either someone was eating escargot on their way home and dumped his shell in the storage bin, or it was really moist inside the car at one point in time. I do prefer this to the desicated baby mice Cowboy pulled out of the Charger.

 Fenders off, seat out, hatch off.

And my favorite thing ever, my house looks like a junkyard.