Tag: Josh

Lost

Coming from a family where family history is lost or suppressed or deliberately forgotten, I always have a bit of nostalgia for old things and memories and stories. Life in the future seems forbidding and apocalyptic, especially these days, so looking backward to areas of familiarity feels good and safe. Good because there are good memories, and safe because I know what was what (as best one ever can), and even though there were areas of ambiguity or fear or confusion, familiarity can help. Getting older has the same effect – familiarity. Falling in love as a teen is not the same as falling in love at 40!

Anyway, I put the black and white capabilities of a digital camera to work. The original photo was quite gritty and really not interesting as far as I was concerned, but then I putzed a bit and thought that a sepia print – faded black and white – and a deckled border could do the trick.

Artistic impulse satisfied!

Nostalgia satisfied!

Good memories of esposo and pooches add to the mix, and here you are.

Deliverance

Before I even had time to get breakfast, look what showed up at the door!    I didn’t even hear it drive up, but suddenly Josh was (not literally) jumping up and down. Factory Five Racing was here.

What kind of car or truck did Josh choose? Mike is perusing the Factory Five Racing catalog.

The gentlemen are looking on. From left to right, Ed, Josh, and Mike. Ed has built two flying airplanes from kits, and flies his own. Now, he will also build the Factory Five 818S kit. Josh, in the middle, is the cause of all this hullabaloo. He has been wanting to build a car for years, and we have spent several looking at cars and kits, and this one fits our (his) needs. Mike, on the right, works with Ed teaching Aircraft Frame and other such stuff at the Los Angeles Adult School. Mike is also a builder of a kit plane that he flies around in.

This is the special trolley, dolly, moving device specially built to move parts into our garage, or yours if you buy your own kit.

Mark is the good man, the driver, who made the day!

This is the empty nest, awaiting its new occupant.

Mark opens up the back of the 70-foot-long 18-wheeler truck, and the fun begins.

Delivery starts . . .

and continues, with sweat running down . . . (not really, it was cool and the car panels are fiber glass) . . .

And now, the frame and paneled part – the car body – is soon to be born.

The side of the car body, hooked onto the overhead cranes, with a fender packed inside. All the guys had to hold the car steady as the fender was released from its home. It got snagged a bit on something, but Mark, Mike, Josh, Ed, and our neighbor John all got together and held it steady. I supervised, of course.

Mark pulling the magic cart. Or, maybe he was wheeling it back to the truck to get more fun stuff??

Yeppers! The body was delivered to its new home.

Jack stands are placed to hold the framework and body in place. Work will begin soon enough!

16 boxes of parts are offloaded. They need to be accounted for and inventoried individually. The tires are on back order and will arrive later. Seats will be bought, too.

The happy Mr. Josh surveys his kingdom for a moment, doubtless in anticipation of the future.

And now, on to deliver Ed’s 818S.