To celebrate this birthday, instead of going out Saturday, we went out Friday evening for a shopping/date night. Cowboy is a pretty good shopping companion and very agreeable, even when we have to go back to the store AFTER we've gotten and return my shoes since I grabbed the wrong size. This left Saturday, my actual birthday, free to do what I really wanted to do, clean the house and work on the car.
I should mention, the house is pretty clean most days, but we have minions so it's never spotless and their things like to migrate from their rooms.
Car progress Saturday was awesome. Most of the bondo work is done on the car with only a few low spots left to smooth out.
This leads to today. Cowboy added the last spots of bondo and started sanding while I finished up some things inside. Around three we started discussing when we could primer. It's October, after all, which means it could be anywhere between 30 degrees or 90 degrees. After looking at the weather, we decided to make a push and get the sanding done today so we could primer. We did have to compromise and not finish the body work on the front bumper so we could prime the car today.
But, we did it. We got the sanding done!
Cowboy spraying out the garage before we primer.
Rear view.
Passenger side.
Flash coat of primer. It's tinted slightly blue so we see it before we sand all the way through back to the metal.
See that hole? That was on the passenger side of the car. Cowboy had to move the gas filler to the driver's side since that's where it was on the Camaro.
What is impressive about this, he cut the hole with the SAWS-ALL. Seriously, he cut that hole with a reciprocating saw. Not a fancy circle cutter, or a plasma torch, but a reciprocating saw. This amuses me to no end. It's one of those weird skills he's developed. It's even more amusing because he doesn't use some fancy Kyobi or DeWalt, he uses this one, that he bought at Harbor Freight, on sale and with a coupon. He did have a fancy name brand one, but it didn't last any longer than the one from Harbor Freight so he's back to this one. But then again, I don't think they were really designed to cut apart cars for hours at a time.
Driver's side after blue flash coat.
Passenger side after blue flash coat.
Finally we get to the thing he's been waiting for all summer, the surfacing coat. This is the point when we can get a vision of how the car will look when we're done. I cried from sheer joy. It's so damn cute. LOOK AT IT! It's adorable. Cowboy says it looks like an 80's Corvette with a bigger hatchback. Bite your tongue Cowboy. That looks like Dune buggy and Speed Racer's car had a car baby. It is adorable though even though it's been an itchy fiberglass pain.
LOOK AT IT! It's just so darn cute. Even better, you can't tell that we pieced it together from things that weren't really designed to go together. It looks like it's always been this way.
That my friends, is love, hours and hours of love. Not only Cowboy's love for making something unique, and solving problems, but his love for his family, and in this car instance, me. I know why oldest minion and middle minion cry when their cars are messed up, because they love them so very much. I think that's the best part of my birthday weekend, the love.
