The Road to Nitro, week 3

The Road to Nitro, week 3

The sale of the engine to the rock crawler guy fell through. He needed a water engine and heck I don’t even have freeze plugs in mine since we don’t use water. Oh well, plenty of time right? I have 97 weeks left if I am to get this in under 100!  

 Hopefully with good weather right around the corner and everyone getting their taxes out of the way it should open up the market for sales of cars and parts. I guess I could start cannibalizing it a little at a time to get rid of it in smaller chunks. I already stole the battery out of it for the motorhome!

I can use the Bird Catcher so that doesn’t have to be sold. Blowers sell pretty easy so I can mark the engine price down a bunch. Don’t think I will take it down past the intake manifold. Cars are also easier to sell minus engine and trans so that is the next step.

 One good thing about not racing right now is I have been able to get more engine and blower jobs finished. I am building a blown Pontiac right now.

I would like to finish up all outstanding jobs so I can concentrate on our rental yard business. We now have a permit to construct small yards to rent out on our commercial property. It has been a long process to get to this point including 440 feet of drain pipes, about 6 feet of fill dirt and a killer neighbor friendly fence to complete permit process. The extra money from the rentals will help out with the added cost of building a new car.

This next week will me more race car ads!