Webcam Capture Archives

I didn't really start saving webcam shots until just recently. Luclily I did keep a few from 2000 so there is a little bit of a record there. If by chance anyone catches a paticularly interesting moment while watching the Resto-Cam, feel free to send it to me. I WILL post it here.

This is the earliest Resto-Cam capture that I have. The car is hacked up pretty good here. I see an outer wheelhouse on the floor and a quarter panel on the saw horses. That is my nieghbor Jon over to visit. I mention him from time to time as he has come over to help now and again. He still pops in every once in a while.

This is the only other cap from 2000. I rember posing for this picture as I was shutting things down for the night. I had just got the car up on the rotisserie and had been removing the fuel and break lines. It turns out that this is the only picture I have of the underside showing the original undercoating at the driveshaft tunnel. You'll notice that there are still no quarter panels attached some 10 months after the last picture!!

Fast forward ahead some 14 months. I can see the '70 has been sand blasted at least! This must have been one of the many attempts to get my '85 600 to run correctly. I'm sure this attempt, just like all before it, was un-successful. Anyhoo, I see the bumpers in the forground. I guess I thought I was going to go ahead and send them off for re-chroming... they are still standing in the corner of the garage... still like they came off the car.

Now this looks like some progress. A quarter panel is welded on and I'm catching some spot welds on the lower edge. Oh yea, and theres the wife with our then 7 month old Andy. He's a bit older now and walks out to the garage every chance he gets... not so with the wife.

Here's a good one. This is during the time I was trying to get the last of the metal work done before the painter got hold of the car. I'm working on getting the drivers floor repaired. The bad metal looks to be cut out while the new patch is on the horse waiting it's turn.

This is only 2 days after the last shot. I guess I'm finished with that patch as I don't see the hole in the floor anymore. I'm obviously sweeping here. I was always sweeping. I could have hundreds of cam caps of me friggin sweeping. I hate sweeping. I think someone sneaks in at night and dumps dirt and metal shavings on the floor because I could easily sweep every day and get a pile of dirt and metal shavings... I hate friggin sweeping!

Here is a cap of one of the days my dad came by to visit. He still talks about the car being up on the rotisserie... he just had no idea anything like that could be done. He has seen the car since it has been back from the painter and he loves it. "Now that's a car" he says.

Ahhhh, the weekend I finally coated the car in metal etching primer. A milestone to say the least. I don't think I finished in one day. I think the underside was done later. I remember felling like things were really moving.

Well, well, well if it isn't Jon again. He's a little bit bigger here! I must have been prepping for painting the underside on the upcomming weekend although in this particular moment we were probably just surfing the net.

Yea, see, all painted 5 days later.

Oh boy, my lowest moment I can ever remember. The rotisserie came apart as I was lowering the car down to put it on the dollie. I was to take it to the painter the next day! If you look at the rear you can see where the rear brackets are pressed firmly against the rear panel of the car. That was the only damage. The car never hit the ground and the painter was able to repair the rear panel.

Here's a little more cheerful cap. My wife Sandra and our then 11 month old Andy. As you can see the car is not there. It had been at the painters since the end of September. I'm not sure what all that mess is behind us but it looks like I was busy doing something.

Here's a cap of a parts car I picked up. I think I really kept the picture because Andy was wandering around the garage that afternoon.

...and the next afternoon...

.. and a week later.

Here we see the car back home from the painter and me working on the 600 again... no I didn't fix it yet. Also another shot of the family hamming it up. They are probably telling me to quit screwin' around and come inside for dinner.

What collection of cam caps would be complete without a shot of my mother-in-law out in the shop checking up on me. She lives in a nice little apartment on the other side of the far wall of the garage. She is very opinionated about the cars I have in and out of the garage. She had still given me a hard time about selling my '72... until she saw the painted '70 body roll back into the shop.

The car is all painted, some re-assembly has begun and all is well. Here I just brought Andy, now nearly 22 months, out to the shop to help close things up for the night.