1976 Swallowtail: Cinnabon by Nashty Rabbit

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thanks again homie!!!! and what do you mean where did i end up? if you mean specs, look up....

anway, pic of the wheel. facemount f40's



and another angle of how the fronts sit....



the windshield has a large crack in it and the seal is dry rotted, so i'm going to cut it out and see if there is any damage then have a autoglo install the new seal and glass. once i do so, i'll get the tire mounted, put combo on the car, give cinnabon it's first cleaning and take a few pics...

take care,
nash

2-26-2012

thanks for all the comps guys.. i really wanted to give this car a classy older feel, because it is a classy older car... lol... so nothing to wide or too stretched or too whatever... don't get it wrong, i like the fat wheel look on stretched rubber, but something about this car ooooze's classy, so just kept it simple...  

in regards to the different wheel companies. to each there own. i've met brian from rotiform last year at sowo and he was nice enough to come by and check out my other rabbit and give me some thoughts in regards to wheels. obviously the guys at image have been nice enough to build me a set of wheels for this car. i tried to have them build the wheels before i recieved the car from oregon by asking friends what setups they had and pics, but in the end, i had to take the measurements myself and send it to them. they took them, and pretty much nailed it...

in regards to the build, this has been a pefect example of two steps forward, one step back...

1) TJ (aka vwrabbitjunkie) saw i was looking for a smoothie hood and offered to sell me his. As imagined I spent more in shipping than for the acutal hood, and even more aggravating is they had damaged the upper driver corner. TJ did a great job packing the hood, but as many here know, shipper's don't care and judging by the box the hood was in, they really didn't care... he sent it with insurance, but i seriuosly doubt it will be worth the headache so will have autoglo repair the damage... thanks again TJ for the sale, you were awesome to deal with...



and the damage:



2) so i only recieved 2 of my 4 wheels from TNT shipping. Long story short, i recently recieved the other two after 10 days of waiting for them. for some reason they didn't realize they didn't ship the second container so it sat in the TNT warehouse till i finally got a hold of a competent person on their end and they realized their mistake. i wasn't happy with TNT shipping.... but they got here and i got the tires mounted up at grand turismo (love these guys!!!!) i've used them for years and they decided i should be awarded for my loyality and they gave me a single ronal race actual race wheel. don't know much about it except that it measured 19" across and 8.5" in width, i need to measure the offset to get a better idea of what they might have gone on... but cool garage piece none the less....





3) the wheels themselves have some superficial issues that have been addressed with Image, and am waiting to hear back from Jason at Image, but so far, he has been more than helpful and am sure he and Image will address these concerns... I did get them on the car and want to clean the car and get some pics of them on the car. I personally feel they look just right... but that's just my opinion...

4) got my wheel locks from BFI and there was a sweet surprise.... not sure when they started this, but brought back memories of all the stuff i use to get from potterman's...



5) took windshield out and to my surprise, very little rust found. the worst spot was on the passenger side and it penetrated through forming a small hole. Autoglo applied rust mort on the few superficial spots, did the same to the bad spot on the passenger side as well. they went back over the passenger side and filled it with kitty hair. however, when they went to install the new seal, they couldn't get it to fit. we tried the second one i had and it didn't work as well. spoke with ben at mk1 autohaus and he informed me that he got a bad batch of front seals and looks like i recieved mine from that batch. ben was very apologetic and all is good, but i didn't want this car sitting for another weeks so i went ahead and had autoglo install the new windshield using urethane. its in and i'll put the new seal in once ben sends over a correct seal.





i've always been in love with the 2002's and couldn't resist taking a pic of a complete resto they are doing on this one... these cars or so damn sexy!!!



6) suspension went on with ease, however after finally playing with the ride height, with the front's wound all the way down, i'm about half an inch to high up front so the car is sitting a little higher than i wanted, so i will probably end up buying strut spacers....

anyway, thanks again for the kind words and will get some pics of the car tomorrow.

take care,
nash