In the 80's my son bought a 1969 Mustang with a 302 in it, loved the car, and put a lot of miles on it. Unfortunately someone hit the car, T-Boned, it in the left front that wiped out the front fender, door, part of the grill and bent the left front door pillar or "A pillar". He bought a fender and door, put them on but because of the bent pillar things did not fit right. the car had some engine and transmission issues that he could not afford to fix at the time so it was parked at my house in Sebastopol CA. (now it's his house) where its been stored under a tarp for 30 years. His youngest son, now in his 20's, took interest in in the car so I told them that I would do the repairs if they would pay for the parts and last Friday they delivered it to me in Kingman AZ.  My son, grandson and me on Friday. They had to get back for work and left on Saturday as it is a 12  hour drive each way.  I spend a couple days removing upholstery, floor mats, all the loos...

In 2006 I was working on a gazebo area in the back yard with a rock retaining wall and rock floor.When I decided to make a stained glass ceiling for the gazebo. I picked out a picture from the Hubble Space Telescope book of a Ring Nebula that is on the front cover and page 32 "Images Of Star Death" that I thought would work well with a 12' - 6 side ceiling.  This was my first try at stained glass and I was told that it might be to much to tackle on a first try but I went ahead and ordered approximately 150 square feet of glass.The green glass ball in the middle is a Japanese fish net float that had a heavy jute covering, from the 50's, that had hung on my mothers back porch for about 20 years.  It took quite awhile for the glass order to get here so I did a full size lay out of the frame on the shop floor and bought the 3", 1 1/2" and 1" square steel tubing needed.  Started with the 3" post as I was pouring the concrete floor and wal...