A door Able

Got our door made, out of an old room door with a section cut out to make it a Dutch Door

inner latch

 sliding the nails into the pre-drilled holes

so the door is done, the wall panels are nearly done.

Tanks everyone!

It's raining gas tanks. The Family Luck strikes again!
Pops talked to his buddy (always have an old mechanic on your team, they almost ALWAYS know a guy and if that guy doesn't have it he knows a guy. there's a chain of guys to know) and showed up this afternoon with a tank out of a chevy truck, it's solid, no holes and great patina for the truck.
the funny bit is, Hub also got a guy at work to give us a tank. So Tanks everyone!

now if some 8 lug old ford pattern rims and tires will fall out of the sky

You don't really wanna Yurt me

the first panel we made just didn't come out right, due to frustrations and mismeasure,

 slats laid out to be painted. drilled 9" apart starting 3" from the top

 trying to paint with a paint sprayer. didn't go as well as hoped.

the weather's been quite cold so they didn't dry very fast. 

In other News

 We got a truck

 ol' family farm truck, the keys naturally are LONG Gone.
1969 Ford F250 Ranger.

built in San Jose California, Owned by the ranch next door, sold to the family. used around the ranch until 2007, then it sat.

 So we drill through the Ignition tumbler so it will release from the housing so a new tumbler with new keys could be put in.

Two Brothers going through the fuel system. A layer of a tar-like substance was coating the bottom of the tanks and clogging the pickup lines so no fuel was getting to the engine. It did turnover though.

Annoyance #1 8-lug old-Ford style rims. awesome and Original but 16.5 tires aren't used much anymore so the original rims are near useless.

Annoyance #2 the old owner didn't keep up on a near-decade of registration fees, current estimation is $1,077.00 not counting transfer fees. 

so should we jump over those hurdles we'll have a glorious Wasteland Truck.