60Patrol

Hi.... How y'all doin? PSYCH! I'll bet you all saw this post and thought "HEY!- Rob is finally making progress on his 62 restoration..." Ummm.... No, he's not :-? It's still sitting out in my shop, looking exactly like it does in the pic posted above. BUT: cooler temps are here! maybe time...

RiverPatrol wrote:Fortunately your daughter can help you sand now.

You better believe it... That kid owes me about 1,000 hours in free labor.

It's been slow going on my 62 Project, but I did spend the day today working on the donor body- specifically breaking down the soft top frame (and snapping just about every bolt along the way... :roll: ) Toughest part was getting the frame loops out of the anchor sockets that are bolted into the rea...

Side- topic...

I gotta make me a cool little Patrol engine go-cart like that... That's pretty snazzy Jeff

{Sigh} Do any of you remember when I USED to work on Nissan Patrols....? Well, my days as a Nissan Patrol guru have been superseded by my recent foray into being a Mazda Miata guru. My daughter, aka: the "apple that doesn't fall far from the tree" bought her little 95 Miata to do some trac...

I recall that the zerks are an odd size but I don't think I ever found out what size. I've always had to reuse the old ones. yup, either re-use, or buy slightly larger diameter new ones with a known thread pitch, and re-tap the shackle pins (pain)... typically, as long as the spring inside the zerk...

El Bondo should have been there.. with me driving it. I gotta get this 62 painted and back together...

Fair weather for the next 5 months, and at present I'm running out of excuses not to be out in the shop working on it.


Looks like you guys had a blast. hope to see some videos posted soon

faux40 wrote:
Is she at least winning those races?

She's mostly just hot-lapping for time. However, the kid treats the accelerator pedal more like an "on/off switch" when she's out there.

A "boxes of parts" project.... Minus the boxes.

Makes me shudder.

But still- tons of value here as a parts rig for anyone doing a mid-66 or later resto.

Yeah, ummmmm..... No. Nothing going on with this project. it's HOT... really hot. Phoenix Arizona hot. :happy-sunshine: I did, however, get to swap another engine into my daughter's little race Miata last week. (That's the second Miata engine in 6 months, for those of you keeping score) I told her t...