She's in primer mate. And cop the new wheels...

The skunkworks

Well, life is good. Went and saw Hugh Jackman in The Boy From Oz on Saturday, after the usual friday night's dodgy feed at Quan 88 the night before. And celebrated by having Saturday dinner out with a mate by the name of Bryce on the Saturday night.

Sunday's weather was so good (Gordbless global warmage) that after stocking up at the South melbourne Market, we took the MX5 around the bay with the top down and I actually copped a bit of a tan. Not bad for a southern hemisphere winter.

Last night's return to poor weather was a chance to pull apart a 44 year old Porsche tacho and clean the various bits before sticking it back together. Without a single finger print inside the glasswork.

It's lemon season, so after all that hard work what was needed was clearly pancakes.


Sam.

Nice weather we're havin'

Park across the road today - what a belter!

We went and saw "woman in black" last night in town - and it was well worth the 80 bucks for the tickets. Very low tech special effects and some excellent acting by John Waters made for a great night out - a really engaging old fashioned ghost story without being high tech and modern.






Living in the city I've been more and more interested in bits of urban street art slapped up around the place. Whilst all the tagging that plagues most walls is just uncreative gate pissing, some little bits of street art here and there really catch you out at times and get a reaction out of you.

One piece of Melbourne's urban art that seems to have gotten a bit of press overseas is a giant Tetris style exhibition made from milk crates and lowered over a freeway wall when no-one was looking. Here's some pics:

How's the 356 going?

The Porsche is still going along quickly - Jason is about ready to apply primer. The doors are back on with their new lower skins.




One last bad weld from a previous guard replacement left to undo as is very clear in the foreground...

More balloons

We thought this was a ripper - a house shaped balloon came in over the park across the road from our house last week...

Sooty the possum

A few weeks back we had an unexpected visitor. After a big crash in the house and some scurrying around I'd assumed a rat had gotten in under the front door somehow.

Turns out that one of the local possums had fallen down the chimney! He'd some how taken up residence in our crockery cupboard, behind the lazy susan.

After a bit of coaxing he shot out the front door and up the tree at the front. Guess that cupboard needed spring cleaning anyway...

356, inc

The 356 is humming along thanks to Jason. At night I get to open up tubs of gauges and bits, and with Brasso and a rag start cleanig up all sorts of intricate bits.

I was a bit worried about making a bit of a street-rod out of a vintage Porsche, still I saw this article in the Age on Wednesday. This one is a 'Pre-A' (I think)-> Click here

Better go cook some tea

Sandblasted doors

The doors have been sandblasted inside and out. The bottom strips were cut out by Jason, new sections will be welded in. Various mirror holes from over the years will need welding up.

Rust cut out of doors

Sexy curves

That's Spencer the uber-mechanic in the background, in his Porsche master-mechanic overalls. You can't meet enough highly skilled people in this game who also happen to be down to earth and really helpful...