I recently came back from our winter council meeting in Nawlins, Lewzanna. It was a great time. But the day before I left to come home I dropped my phone and broke the screen. I didn't realize how much I rely on the damn thing, or how much of my life is contained in that little box! A number of pictures,,phone numbers,and texts will have to wait till it gets fixed. waiting on parts as I write this. One of the cool things about the Big Easy,is the street cars,
They have antique street cars that are restored and operate just like they did decades ago. A day pass is 3 bucks and you can go all over town, all you want. We didn't drive anywhere. The street cars went every where we wanted to go.
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| We went to one of the companies that make the floats for the Mardi Gras parades... |
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| and the famous cemeteries, Quite educational, and a little creepy. |
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I came home to frigid temperatures,and snow. It was time to get back on the van,
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| I had the idea of doing embroidery of a pinstripe design on the seats. | I wanted something fairly large. |
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I did a stripe design and scanned it into the computer,then had a friend, Elaine Swank, do the design on a piece of material that will be sewn into the seat panel. Ron Petrella ,an old club member is doing the seats for me.
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| This gives you some idea how it will look. This isn't one of the seats. its a spare so I can move the truck around |
Ever since I put the air conditioning unit under the dash I have been trying to figure out how I was going to finish off that area.
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| I decided to jump in and try a couple ideas. |
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| I started with 2 panels to cover as much of the front wall as possible. There is a lot of hoses and wiring that needs to be hidden |
cutting and fitting all this took about 2 days.
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Got to figure out a way to cover the steering column ,then its time to cover these with Material. cant wait. Also there will be LED lights under all these panels. and a bracket to hold an I pad.that hooks to the stereo. Digital tunes you know...
so the next step is to cover the panels with material.
vents for the air conditioning on each side. |
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All done, and I installed led lights underneath . lookin cool!
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