New Storm King Pics From Gary and Bill. – Page 2

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November 28, 2013 at 6:17 pm #39521
dino
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will post Photos soon….Hoping the Storm King crew can be at Our Next Race….Car or Not …But Car Good!
December 1, 2013 at 12:13 am #39536
dino
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Working on photos…Gary sent in strange file format I’m attempting to ‘crack’ .
December 1, 2013 at 12:44 am #39538
storm-king
Its called “whatever came with my iMac”….
January 30, 2014 at 4:15 am #39911
mikey
Just got a few more pics from Gary. will try to post them here. I hope I resized them correctly.
……………….Mikey
Gotta make one more post, only let me put up 10 pics.

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January 30, 2014 at 4:18 am #39912
mikey
Last picture, only got 11 out of 13, could not open the other 2, sorry Gary.

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January 30, 2014 at 12:27 pm #39913
storm-king
Thanks again to Mikey for resizing and posting these up for us!
Well, you can see we’ve been cleaning it up a bit, tweaking here and there (NOT tweerking! No Miley Cirus crap in this garage!) I cut out the messy Plymouth firewall, and smoothed it up a bit, got rid of the cowl vents and windshield wiper openings, and eliminated the gas filler from the rear quarter panel.
I had a couple of my pre-teen grandsons, who don’t have much influence from a father at home, work on the car with me at times this past summer. They did really well. I had them masking, and then painting the roll cage. One of them also was a big help in getting the rear firewall installed. He loved working with Clecos!
There’s also a picture above here of our super-cheap “spit” to turn the car up on it’s side so I could finish the underside easily.
Anyway, more to come as soon as Mikey has some time.
He’s got a bit of surgery coming up tomorrow, so it wouldn’t hurt to keep that in your prayers as well.
January 30, 2014 at 3:26 pm #39915
dino
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Mikey Cracked the photo file ! Thanks Papa’s Toy man! SO …the BIG Question IS …Will you make the Race with it?…Doc & son Rich Burgess are planning to be there with the MINI -ARROW!
January 30, 2014 at 11:12 pm #39925
storm-king
When’s the race? August? We’re hoping to have the car together by March.
January 30, 2014 at 11:48 pm #39926
dino
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Aug 9-10 So no excuses! …ya missed the first 5

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February 10, 2014 at 7:31 pm #40023
dino
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Gary’s latest Progress Photos…just posted…Getting close! White Paint done…Blue Storm King scheme ,next.

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March 2, 2014 at 6:30 pm #40148
dino
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I asked Gary the Progress and did he have some current Photos,he sent This:
“Gary wrote: “I’ll try and get some to you tomorrow. Bill and I have been building aircraft parts, and I’ve been doing my Patent work for a project I’ve been working on all year. Car is held up for some stinking bolts! Should be in this week, but I have some new photos I think.”
March 7, 2014 at 11:06 pm #40180
tomatohead
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car looks awesome , real nice work , cant wait to hear in run 😀
July 15, 2014 at 1:31 pm #40718
storm-king
Well, boys & girls, I hate to break the news, but the car isn’t going to make the reunion this year. Bill and I have been covered up building aircraft parts for his new business, and the car’s schedule has slipped about four months behind. We had header clearence issues, which we should not have had, that set us back even further.
So, Hopefully it’ll hit the track before the end of the season, but it won’t be a Lebanon. This year.
December 24, 2015 at 2:25 pm #43189
dino
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Just In from Gary….”Well it certainly has been some time since I’ve done an update on Bill’s car. I stopped in at the chassis shop to wish Mr. Smith a Merry Christmas, and took a couple of pictures”…New aluminum radiator, fuel pressure regulator and coil installed, plus a bump button on the firewall, for turning the engine while setting the valves.They moved my MSD box from where I had it to inside the car. I guess the idea here is to have all of the electrical components on one board for easy maintenance. New shifter is installed, with rear exit cable, and our removeable carbon fiber/Kevlar transmission tunnel has it’s DZUS fasteners installed. Originally, we had the swtich panel set up for a dashboard mounting. They moved them up to the rollcage, in part because they said Shaedy wouldn’t be able to reach them on the dash once she was strapped in. So with thoughts of her driving this, that’s where they are located.S&S Racecars finishes up plumbing, wiring, and other details on the latest “Storm King”. — in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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