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| jan 2001-mar 2001
It's been a good few months. I've been wrenching on the car like a potato in the fryer. My goal was to have a rolling chassis in time to take to the 3rd annual Texas microcar meet in Dallas. First up was the engine. After debating awhile on whether to rebuild it myself or have someone else do it, I decided to do an engine swap with Werner. My engine # and chassis # did not match anyway, and the rebuilt engine arrived promptly. I wound up redoing the tranny myself as well as finally putting back together the chaindrive from last time's episode. After worrying about my brake cylinders and having visions of hurtling down one of Austin's many hills without brakes, I sent mine off to White Post for a sleeve job. They came back looking mighty fine (and my visions ceased). After completing these main components, I began the long, but hugely satisfying, job of slowly bolting my little egg back together again. I'll tell you what: nothing feels better than seeing yer car coming back together again and looking real good to boot. Even Viagra can't beat this! Bruce Fullerton helped quite a bit on lending some tools and a hand when dropping in the engine and tranny and hooking up the donuts between the tranny and the chain drive. I highly recommend finding someone else in your hometown that is also rebulding an Isetta and is on the same (slow) schedule as yourself: it's been very useful comparing notes as we rebuild these cars (a page on Bruce's car is here). Look for a couple articles with my byline in the next minutia magazine. One on surfing the Web for the coolest isetta sites and another with Bruce on our restorations. Next up is tweaking the brakes, clutch, engine, etc. and then getting that body work done. Oh yeah: I was able to get the car done in time for the car show. Photos next time....
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