The most exciting thing to be seen in the car barn in a long time, TWO heater ducts. Why is this exciting you say? 

Well this weekend with temps as low as 10, we had 11 volunteers onsite working over the course of the weekend! This is an amazing and exciting milestone for us. 11 dedicated people that braved the cold to come out and work on three different cars this weekend. Massive progress was made on all three, so here we go...

Mike G. handing out seat cushions from CA&E 20

Fred Lonnes and Jeff Bennett very proud of themselves for devising the 2x4 technique to remove the seat backs

Jeff being called away to another project, Mike stepped right in and continued

red Lonnes surveys the car, as he has just heaved out the last cushions to Thee, Jeff and Mike, who were hauling them to the transport vehicle. Fred has many memories of different tasks on this car, as he first started coming to the museum in 1963!

So now the real fun. The seat mechanisms required massive cleaning, and you can see here our newest volunteer Manny Dunn has quite the set up going to get the decades of gunk out.

Seeing a dirty job, Jeff couldn't wait to jump in and helped with the cleaning. There will be many repairs required so that all the seats flip back and forth correctly. These will be done by our metal magician Kyle, while the cushions are out being overhauled and recovered.

nd as always... Mike is cleaning up after the mess that Jeff made... What in the world would we do with him?

Thee is staging the cars worth of cushions so we could get them all in one load in the "Trolley Ambulance"

Having biscuit joined and cut this massive piece of oak for the floor repair at his shop, Andre is now seen here doing some final adjustments before dropping it in place

Jeff is holding the piece so Andre can make an area that needs a bit more belt sanding.

Andre continues to make the fit perfect.... Jeff continues to get cold... lol

Success, it's in. Now James Tarbet is handling the chisel work. The heads of all these bolts are square, and must be recessed below the surface of the floor. This was accomplished the good ol fashioned way, chisel and hammer.