I thought it would be a good idea to create a builders 6-month Time-Line.

To start off the new year of 2005 what is shown in this secion is one photo of many different builders car (it’s condition on 1/1/05). I have also asked everyone to write me and tell me what they “hope” to have accomplished by July 1st 2005. At the end of June we will start this again to view your 6 months of progress.

I hope that every 6 months we will have a snap shot of how much each builder has accomplished in six month intervals. It will also help to place a name with a car’s progress. -fletch

Fletch

by 7/1/05 I hope to have all the suspension parts mounted, so that I have a rolling chassis.

I would also like to have the transmission mounted, and have the engine ordered.

Jim Dinner 1/6/05

I have a good feeling that we will be done our current build before the end of May ( Carlisle). This is a somewhat current picture. It still looks pretty much the same. We will be disassembling everything in about 3 weeks. Our body kit should be here by Jan 10,05....I hope. I want to make all the mounting brackets first before painting the chassis. Stay tuned at www.kwikercars.com

This is a picture of the engine bay in our build I am hoping that in 6 months the engine will be taching up to 7000RPM on a hiway near the beach!!

Jim Dinner 7/12/05

Car is finished and has over 500 kilometers on it. IT IS AWESOME. Handles like a dream, pulls like mad and stops like hitting a brick wall. Plus....chicks dig it!!

Gary Kerr 1/6/05

Just a picture to let you guys know I'm getting a little farther on my car.... haven't worked on it much since my accident.....but....The days my head feels better I try to spend a little time on my car...love to all, hope everyone had great holidays!

I was stuck in a couple of places trying to trial fit my body on the car. I figured that if it started to look more like a car it would give me that kick in the rear everyone needs!!

Dale Smith "Doc"

Here are some photos of 1/4/05

I removed the body about a month ago to finish welding the frame, which I had pretty well set up.

After the body was off I got tired of welding and waiting ( I have a 120V welder with a 20% duty cycle, which means you can only do so much before it blows a fuse) so I started working on other stuff.

I put in the dash pieces and the wiring harness and started tracing what went where and then created a schematic of what I needed and realized I could create the majority of the final harness at this point, which beats the hell out of laying on your back either under the car or under the dash at a later date

Florentino Rodriguez 1/13/05

here are the pic of my car as it set today after almost two year, maybe this was the kick start I was looking for!

for the 6 month progress I believe will have a rolling chassis with the buddy, doors and windows mount and workable.

Lucky Lopez 1/13/05

Hey just giving you an update on the Barchette project the car is a real 03 Murceallgo hard top we are converting it to a Barchetta roadster

1.first we framed in the chassie added a crossmember

2.mesured 3in back from the wind shild and stared to cut

3. then we mesured 3in up from the gas cap and 9in from the door jam

4.then we moved to the deck lid and cut off the top two Loovers

5.Started on Building a barchtta decklis will send updated and more pics and thanks for you time take care Lucky Lopez Exotic Replicas USA Las Vegas NV

Greg Downey 1/13/05

I think the snapshot is an excellent idea. I'm glad you didn't institute it last year though! Almost nothing has happened to my chassis between July and December, 2004. Instead, I remodeled and painted our house, bought a triplex, and started a consulting company. Beginning in January, I finally started focusing all that time back on the Diablo now that things have calmed down a little.

My goal by July, 2005, is to have the chassis rolling and the engine mated to a tranny. I probably wont' have the drivetrain installed yet, but should be close.

John Wunderlin

At present time I am doing body work and fitting interior panels. Everything else is done including all the wiring. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. If all goes well the next 6 month snap shot will be of this car completed.

Brandon Kirkland (Grim001)

I think this idea is awesome. Since I am relatively new, this will help me see how others are planning the stages of their replic.
My plans are within the next six months to have a 3800 SC installed on a 5 spd tranny, wiring may not be done by then though. I will also be working on beefing up some weak areas in my chassis. I will be building the front chassis and rear bumper mounts. I want to have all the major chassis welding done, I'm sure I will be modifying things as I go!

Andy Bujtas 1/31/05

My car is currently in the paint shop. It's taking a bit of time since these guys are really putting in a lot of elbow grease into this car - wet sanding the paint and polishing it up. The car is so big that they must paint the body in sections. I'll attach some pictures as to where they are as of last Wednesday (1/26). After paint, the car must still go to the upholstery shop, and I don't know their availability yet.

I'll be at Knotts regardless if the car is ready or not. But I hope the car will be completely finished by then. I'm quite sure the car will be finished for the Carlisle show.

The car will be finished this spring.

7/12/05 -The car should be finished by the end of August, but probably not registered until sometime in September. The car will be going into the upholstery shop July 30. It will be in the shop for about 3 weeks. Then the windshield amd quarter windows will be installed. At that point, the car would be essentially done.

Ken Schroeder - 7/1/05

This is where I was in January 2005

7/12/05 - Over the last six months I've installed my Held wide-track sport suspension package and their 13" disk brakes.  Since my kit arrived from NAERC (eg: Canada, #679 ) in April, I've been finishing the chassis upgrades and working on mounting the body.  In the next six months I hope to have the exterior fiberglass, including doors and rockers, mounted. 

Dale Van Blokland 7/28/05

Dale is working on finishing Rick Page's car.

Rick Lord 7/29/05

The body is sitting on a Chassisworks chassis and the chassis is sitting on blocks. The 40th Anniversary Murci wheels are just propped up in position for the effect. I just picked up a 327 Motor for the other day.