United States of GRIZZ - Just how random do you want it?

[Grizz]

Wanna buy a Peugeot mister??

Cheap as chips.

Spent some time on the 206CC

Tried to open seatback as suggested online in order to try get to the boot lock to pop it open.

Ha !

No luck.

Any more advice or help?

I really need to sell this very cool and powerful little car, in order to make space. It truly is surplus to needs.


Back seat, seat back removed.



Also spent time sorting through some more piles of stuff, including electrical wiring, sockets, plugs etc.

Then disassembled the wooden skid or trolley that I had built for the Rezin Rockit build, it made moving the body and chassis much easier to move around single handedly.

I had part of a custom made Chevy C10 cab rolling trolley mate Martin had made for his build, discarded after use, I collected it from his scrap pile, cleaned and painted it.




After removing the wheels and then finding a load of nuts, bolts and washers I put it all together.

Once again the little DeWalt impact driver with 1/2 inch adapter made life easier, it did the same for disassembly of the wooden skid frame.
Wood will be used as part of a new cab lifter that I need to make up.




Ready to rock n roll with the cab.

Cab gets bolted or mounted over these cab mount bolts.

Than one can move it about, but it is also raised above the ground.




Getting a C10 cab lifted is a four man lift.
It is big, heavy and awkward to lift, then carrying it forward, rearward or rolling the chassis out from under it.

To make life easier……

Step in the cab lifter, I will make a new one as the one previously made, is both rotten and some way away from here.

Using an engine hoist inversely, one can singlehandedly lift and remove a cab.

Video I made 9 years ago when Martin was removing his cab the first time.




Looking forward to more tidying up today.

Progress is slow but happening.

[Eddie Honda]

Spent some time on the 206CC

Tried to open seatback as suggested online in order to try get to the boot lock to pop it open.

Ha !

No luck.

Any more advice or help?

Does the roof work? Can you not dive in the boot after interrupting stage one of the roof folding process? Is the blind in place or not? Can you remove that middle bit between the seats?

[Grizz]

Spent some time on the 206CC

Tried to open seatback as suggested online in order to try get to the boot lock to pop it open.

Ha !

No luck.

Any more advice or help?

Does the roof work? Can you not dive in the boot after interrupting stage one of the roof folding process? Is the blind in place or not? Can you remove that middle bit between the seats?

Blind in boot not in place.

Roof worked before.

But only with the blind pulled out

All steel behind the rear seats.

[dean36014]

Smash a back light so you can get your hand in?

[Eddie Honda]

No need. I've got a plan, more later.

[Eddie Honda]

Spent some time on the 206CC

Tried to open seatback as suggested online in order to try get to the boot lock to pop it open.

Ha !

No luck.

Any more advice or help?

Does the roof work? Can you not dive in the boot after interrupting stage one of the roof folding process? Is the blind in place or not? Can you remove that middle bit between the seats?

Blind in boot not in place.

Roof worked before.

But only with the blind pulled out

All steel behind the rear seats.

Wrong side for starters. There are two holes, one behind each seat. Correct, blind needs to be pulled out for the roof to go down. First stage of roof opening flips the boot top rearward and if you stop the process before the roof moves you can access the lock to unlatch it from the inside.

Better to remove the complete back, rather than put a nasty fold in it. The hole you revealed has the pump blocking it, the other side (left) is where you go in from.

Something stout, thin (1/8") and c. 40" long with a 90° bend in the end of it is required. Handle may be thicker. Broom handle or dowel rod. The aim of the game is to defeat that roof down interlock.

You don't need to spear the carpet, you could hold it down with a screwdriver or something else.

Merci beaucoup to sgeure over on 206cclovers.com for the tutorial and pictures.

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If you can't get the roof to work aim a torch to the middle rear and aim to flick the emergency release on the boot latch.

[Eddie Honda]

You might be able to push out the centre of the clips from the passenger compartment side.

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[Grizz]

.

Well

I’ll be darned……

Eddie, The Rainman and GOOGLE FU Master.

My searches never gave me these responses. THANK YOU!!

Bit dark out yet.


Will go out and try this later when the sun is out fully.


This has to be easier than matches and a gallon of lawnmower fuel.

[Grizz]

Astro Love. 


I am quite ruthless (if there really is such a thing) about the cars that are on my drive 



Anything is for sale or possibly even for trade if the trade item suits my quirky needs. 


@Marm Toastsmith is looking for something interesting that can be applied in multiple ways. 


The Astro would suit his needs in so very many ways and possibly even the value I associate with it.  


But I realised (tbh I know) that I was not yet ready to see it burble off into the sunset. 


After having mate John sort out replacing the radio that was fitted to it when I bought it, along with the new dash I managed to find in Arkansas, and knowing there’s a few more maintenance type jobs to get it up to the next level of ownership, I decided that I was not ready to see it off. Maybe I never will be. 


I have maintained for years that if you don’t look back at your car when you walk away and smile, you have bought the wrong car. 


This Astro is really weird. 


Until I sell the Rezin Rockit, it has to live outside my kitchen window, then it will move into the carport. It deserves that treatment. 


BUT……. I honestly find myself looking at it from indoors or when walking in from the garage, that it always makes me smile. 





Back to the reason for this long write up  



This week I was using the van to donPost office runs, not the cheapest way to save money, and to go food shopping  



Stopping at the post office I realised again that unless someone really needs this car a lot of queens faces more than me, ir may be stuck here for a while  



This view really makes me happy  







Yesterday I was busy working in the garage, still clearing up and finding stuff that was shoved into boxes, onto shelves etc the last 7 years. 
Rediscovered my Big Foot gas pedals that Andy in Oklahoma had made for me. 


And so I went to see if I could find a way to fit one into the van. 
It does kinda make the van’s residency more permanent here. 


Looks like a fit. 





And so a bit of etch primer. 


Followed by masking around the edges







And some Chevy Engine block high heat orange followed by clear lacquer. 





Later today I will get back to it and polish and sand back all the proud surfaces and then drill and tap some holes in the rear for some mounting holes and brackets. 


​​​​​​​In the meantime I’ll get to a frw other jobs as well. 

[Grizz]

Just headed out to make a poking tool and to see if I can get this done.

I will be filming it.

Wish me luck.