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So it's not just me! Safari Gold, under artificial light, at night. What a great tribute picture to a beautiful car!. I've got to stop looking at these pictures. Between weatherstrip kit delays and Ministry of Transport bullsh!t, I don't know how long it will be before I can (legally) drive mine on the road! That very short taste I had of driving it the other day put the hooks back into me. There's some weird contradiction between the way the engine feels way bigger than it is when you first start driving it, and the way it feels once you've been in it for a while. I've never felt as "merged" with a car as I do with a Z. I love driving my Mini - it's small, nimble, and peppy, but there's just too much technology between me and the car/road/experience. I've kept this at bay for a very long time, but now it's killing me. Having said all that, I'm not sure who's more frustrated with the delays - me or Granny!

Another detour - since I started aligning the barn doors, I decided I needed to address the floating center post Had to cut out 16" of the dimensional 4x4 center post, and about 12" of the dimensional 2x4" door frame/posts. Fortunately I have saved sections of old posts I've cut up for other areas, so I had sufficient lengths to get clean sections for here. I tied two 2x4 together to get the center, set that on a piece of pressure treated sill, and then added the side posts The external plates needed to be actual 1x, so I got 5/4" x 6" decking & cut the width down to 4.5", to get the total 9" width needed Covered the center area with butyl wrap before putting the external plates in Replaced the wood screws with 3" 5/16" lag bolts, so that should hold up. Don't have any in the left door yet, ran out of time & light. I'll deal with that after work tomorrow.

For your viewing pleasure, my car's 50th birthday portrait.

The guy in the Alcatraz shirt was my best friend growing up. He was a very funny guy. I've been an admirer of the pictures of your car in your signature! Thanks for sending a few more. Great colour! Nice car! I think a lot of the early Z colours had different looks in different lighting. For some reason, I find the Safari Gold looks great under artificial light at night. Strange.

I remember doing that mod on my 1st Z and I thought it was great until someone pointed out that the real problem was the ceased up bushings on the linkage that I cleaned up as well. That made the Honda motor look fantastic until I reinstalled the original wiper motor and could see no difference between them, now I just go straight to the linkage.