Today is August 29, 2002 Today was beautiful day.
Got a little warm this afternoon. In the low 80's
Marti and I installed the gas tank and battery compartment.

 

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Today is August 30, 2002 Today was another beautiful day.
In the low 80's
Marti and I went to Heber Springs to buy paint and other stuff.

The other stuff was a windmill. So we had to put it together.
Nothing done on the trike today. Took all day to put the windmill together.

 

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Today is August 31, 2002 Today was another beautiful day.
In the low 80's
We got the gas tank and battery installed.
We also put some body filler in some places to make it rounded instead of square.

 

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Today is September 1, 2002 Today was another beautiful day.
In the low 80's
We did a bunch of sanding on the body filler we put on yesterday
We also put the fairing on.

 

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Today is September 2, 2002 Today was another beautiful day.
In the low 80's
We sanded and painted the top of the trike.
We installed the hex caps on the battery and gas tank compartment.
We also made some of the framework for the rear floorboards.

 

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Today is September 10, 2002 Today was another beautiful day.
In the low 80's
We were gone Wednesday Thursday and Friday. Saturday and Sunday all I did was watch the U.S. Open.
Yesterday and today we put the skin on the back floorboards.

 

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Today is September 12, 2002 Today was another beautiful day.
In the low 80's
We order parts from the VW parts house and got the wrong ones so
yesterday we wnet to the VW parts store and picked up the right parts.
To day I installed the new points, condenser, rotor, distributor cap.
It started up and I dorve it for the first time under its own power.

 

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Above is a picture of it when it first moved under its own power.

 

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Down the driveway and out in to the real world.

 

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Starting around the circle.

 

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Going down the back stretch.

 

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Coming down the home stretch.

 

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Going up the driveway back to the barn.

 


Today is September 16, 2002 Today was a great day not to hot low 80's.
I built the front dash for the trike. It is kinda big might do it over.
Marti started to dab the yellow over the white.

 

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