Strictly Attitude
solid fixture here in the forum
Well Grumpy you have really impressed me with the ton's of knowledge I see in here along with the quality of work that is being accomplished. I see realistic views and attitudes of it being done right the first time. Your building a dream or wasting cash lays down a real truth that most people are guilty of including myself knowingly at times. Don't think the compliments are all aimed just to Grumpy cause this site would not exist with out the others that frequent it also.
So here I have decided to put my build as I travel this journey so be prepared for long winded rants or talks on my experiances. Pictures of car shows or even the latest and greatest airbrush work of art I have going to keep my sanity. I am sure my build will be slow as I am a young father with more knowledge than money with huge ideas of unrealistic grandure bouncing around in my head that I plot out into ways of making my build happen on a low almost non existant budget.
I will start with an introduction and some background on myself to bring you all up to speed with me, my skills, my opinions and view and why I feel that way. Well my name is John J. Coffey and entered this world in 1977 the same year as on of my favorite cars the "Smokey and the Bandit" T/A. I fell in love with this car as a toddler as my god parents owned one and baby sat me and my sister at the time. Growing up I spent my time drawing cars and trucks and playing in a mustang project in the yard that got sold before it was ever a reality. My father was a ford man who has since then grown to love all differt makes and models. I can thank my father for his do it your seld attitude with allot projects and allot base line knowledge the set the fundamentals of mechanical apptitude for me. I graduated high school in 1996 was bless with a great gift of 1990 thunderbird that saw more time at unsafe speeds then I am proud to talk about. I then went to the community college for a degree in auto body that I never finished due to the idea hanging out was more inportant than education was I wrong. I trades the 1990 thunderbird about a year after owning it for a 1979 T/A and was now working as a mechanic on tractor trailors. The person who got me the job was a drag racer and mentor to me in allot of ways. I was never the one to be scared to take something apart and put it back together. I was always facinated by the facts any design could be improved on in my mind. I ended leaving that job to work for a garage call Bea's and the owner was old school. I learned more than a college could teach me in fab work got to play with toys like a plasma cutter and learned to stick weld to a point I could have welds that were almost as pretty as they were from the mig.
So now I then saw greener grass across the river and quit my mechanic career move to a resort and was a waiter then Dining room manager for 2 years. Moved back and started in construction big money hard work great for a young man in his 20's bought a 2 wheel drive pickup that had dreams of hot rodding out make it into a low rider but these never materialized. Just had some minor bolt on body mods tail light,s billet grill, and stereo that could cause rapid hearing loss. I still had the hot rod bug in me and Fast and Furious was big at that time shows like Monster Garage, Overhaul'n, Pimp my Ride(I watch it now it makes my skin crawl) Monster house all ran cross my screen was a member of a small car club that met weekly at a dunkin doughnuts. I starved my self to buy a vinyl cutter and started doing car graphics on the side along with some sign work. It was cool the machine paid for it self and made a great hobby that paid for itself why construction paid the bills. My neighbor who lived in apartment below us was getting his car redone and was bragging on how it was going to have airbrush work on it so I went and saw it being started on one day was in amazement and at that knew I was going to be an airbrush artist!!!! I saved up bought one from michaels and was off painting away swallowed up by custom paint and never looked back.
To be continued.........
So here I have decided to put my build as I travel this journey so be prepared for long winded rants or talks on my experiances. Pictures of car shows or even the latest and greatest airbrush work of art I have going to keep my sanity. I am sure my build will be slow as I am a young father with more knowledge than money with huge ideas of unrealistic grandure bouncing around in my head that I plot out into ways of making my build happen on a low almost non existant budget.
I will start with an introduction and some background on myself to bring you all up to speed with me, my skills, my opinions and view and why I feel that way. Well my name is John J. Coffey and entered this world in 1977 the same year as on of my favorite cars the "Smokey and the Bandit" T/A. I fell in love with this car as a toddler as my god parents owned one and baby sat me and my sister at the time. Growing up I spent my time drawing cars and trucks and playing in a mustang project in the yard that got sold before it was ever a reality. My father was a ford man who has since then grown to love all differt makes and models. I can thank my father for his do it your seld attitude with allot projects and allot base line knowledge the set the fundamentals of mechanical apptitude for me. I graduated high school in 1996 was bless with a great gift of 1990 thunderbird that saw more time at unsafe speeds then I am proud to talk about. I then went to the community college for a degree in auto body that I never finished due to the idea hanging out was more inportant than education was I wrong. I trades the 1990 thunderbird about a year after owning it for a 1979 T/A and was now working as a mechanic on tractor trailors. The person who got me the job was a drag racer and mentor to me in allot of ways. I was never the one to be scared to take something apart and put it back together. I was always facinated by the facts any design could be improved on in my mind. I ended leaving that job to work for a garage call Bea's and the owner was old school. I learned more than a college could teach me in fab work got to play with toys like a plasma cutter and learned to stick weld to a point I could have welds that were almost as pretty as they were from the mig.
So now I then saw greener grass across the river and quit my mechanic career move to a resort and was a waiter then Dining room manager for 2 years. Moved back and started in construction big money hard work great for a young man in his 20's bought a 2 wheel drive pickup that had dreams of hot rodding out make it into a low rider but these never materialized. Just had some minor bolt on body mods tail light,s billet grill, and stereo that could cause rapid hearing loss. I still had the hot rod bug in me and Fast and Furious was big at that time shows like Monster Garage, Overhaul'n, Pimp my Ride(I watch it now it makes my skin crawl) Monster house all ran cross my screen was a member of a small car club that met weekly at a dunkin doughnuts. I starved my self to buy a vinyl cutter and started doing car graphics on the side along with some sign work. It was cool the machine paid for it self and made a great hobby that paid for itself why construction paid the bills. My neighbor who lived in apartment below us was getting his car redone and was bragging on how it was going to have airbrush work on it so I went and saw it being started on one day was in amazement and at that knew I was going to be an airbrush artist!!!! I saved up bought one from michaels and was off painting away swallowed up by custom paint and never looked back.
To be continued.........
