Author: Bob Herzog

Here’s something weird that happened in the garage. I have a built in garage furnace. In the winter, when I’m not around. I keep the garage at just above freezing like 40 degrees. I do this by having a modified thermostat. One that

I decided to start stripping the paint off the body and get it in primer before I started on the mechanical bits. This had more to do with the weather than anything else. Fall was upon us and it was

Well, it was getting about time to pull the body off. Always a momentous occasion, you work real hard to get to that point and when it happens, you reveal if the chassis will require just a little bit of

I’ve worked for the phone company for over 31 years where we have acronyms for everything. I had a real rough day in the garage the other day and I decided to put some acronyms together to try and classify what kind of

Once in a while in the disassembly stage you have to do a bit of clean up. Since I had just ripped (literally) the seats out, it was time to take the shop vac out to get rid of all the rotted

Time to Get Gooey. The window frame is held onto the door with two small self-tapping screws and lots of really gooey black tar type adhesive. Of course I didn’t really know this at first so I didn’t put on any rubber gloves.

Disassembly time. Lot’s of people ask me how many hours I put into a restoration. It seems like thousands, but I never really kept track on the other projects I’ve done. SO this time I’ve got a little clipboard and I’ll see how

Many of you recall that I wrote a series of articles from 1990-1997 when I took two very tired Lotus Cortina junkyard dogs and made one pretty nice one out of them. That car is gone, sold to a collector in