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After 10 months of work, Huey is finally
finished with being rebuilt after the major accident at Targa
Newfoundland 2007. (click here for
the whole story). We had no intention of rebuilding him this year,
instead deciding to focus on Papa Smurf and other activities, as well as
being involved with organizing Parade 2008.
Back in November 2007, while having dinner
with the PCA National Staff, Prescott Kelly, the National PCA President
said "you MUST have Huey back together in time for Parade, you just
gotta do it!" We argued that we had no time, money, or desire to do this
again after spending 2 years getting it together the first time, but as
the night wore one, it became clear we were going to start the project
(no peer pressure here, huh?). So began many late nights, lots of
scrambling around for parts, and tons more effort on the parts of Bill Dunster from Autobahn Collision and John Forbes and his team from Black
Forest Racing.
Nadine spent about a week completely
stripping everything off of Huey, down to wiring harnesses and trim.
Bill took the chassis and saved as much of it as he could, while
combining new and used parts to rebuild it back to a solid GT body. This
time, we decided to use steel flares instead of fiberglass due to some
issues we had previously.
We saved as much of Huey as possible,
but replaced a lot too due to damage or structural weakness.
Here are a few pictures of the progress,
I will post more as I gather them: |
