Next weekend the Milwaukee Auto Show will be starting. As a member, I've been asked by the Northwood's Shelby Club to represent the newest Shelby by bringing my car to show for the nine days of the event. :coolman: They will have a Shelby Mustang displayed from every year.
My Nephew came to work today to help me prep (Ok, he did most of the work) the car for the event. We started out with a wash, clay bar, re-wash and wax. All I can say is Damn! :-D She hardly looks like she's ever been on a race track! :bowdown:
Kind of gives you an idea of how my new race shop is coming along also!
The event staff requires all cars to have less than a 1/4 tank of fuel (I wonder if that's to make them more dangerous in case of fire?!? :rollseyes ) so I was trying to figure out how to get the tank emptied seeing Road America was shut down for the Winter! ;-) I tried putting a hose down the filler neck but didn't have any luck doing that. My Buddy Marv tells me there's some sort of a trap door that prevents vagrants from stealing your fuel. (which I thought was a pretty cool idea!!) So I thought of pumping the fuel out with the fuel pump or disconnecting the fuel gauge. Unfortunately stuff like that just isn't as easy with this car like it was in the good old days. So, after talking to Marv (he was going to look into the fuel system wiring) I just decided to rip out the rear seat and pull the fuel pumps out of the fuel tank and siphon the fuel out from there. :idea: It worked pretty damn good! :read:
So if any of you are planning on going to the Milwaukee Auto Show you'll see my car there.
:thumbsup: :coolman: :beer:
My Nephew came to work today to help me prep (Ok, he did most of the work) the car for the event. We started out with a wash, clay bar, re-wash and wax. All I can say is Damn! :-D She hardly looks like she's ever been on a race track! :bowdown:
Kind of gives you an idea of how my new race shop is coming along also!
The event staff requires all cars to have less than a 1/4 tank of fuel (I wonder if that's to make them more dangerous in case of fire?!? :rollseyes ) so I was trying to figure out how to get the tank emptied seeing Road America was shut down for the Winter! ;-) I tried putting a hose down the filler neck but didn't have any luck doing that. My Buddy Marv tells me there's some sort of a trap door that prevents vagrants from stealing your fuel. (which I thought was a pretty cool idea!!) So I thought of pumping the fuel out with the fuel pump or disconnecting the fuel gauge. Unfortunately stuff like that just isn't as easy with this car like it was in the good old days. So, after talking to Marv (he was going to look into the fuel system wiring) I just decided to rip out the rear seat and pull the fuel pumps out of the fuel tank and siphon the fuel out from there. :idea: It worked pretty damn good! :read:
So if any of you are planning on going to the Milwaukee Auto Show you'll see my car there.
:thumbsup: :coolman: :beer:
