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Here's Mike W and me holding the Gold Cup. After this pic was taken we immediately began struggling for sole possession of it. Matsuo-san walked up waving a Samurai katana over his head and was ready to split it down the middle, all the while Chris Karl was screaming "NOOOOOooooooooo!" and yelling that each of us would get our own trophy after it was engraved and sent us. We both reluctantly turned the trophy over to Chris and no one was injured. Matsuo-san was clearly disappointed he didn't get to use the katana.

Very nice work! I had the same issues with my turn signals except that the reflector itself was rotted through at the bottom of one of the socket holes and therefore not stable enough for aluminum tape. Wound up fabricating a new one out of aluminum flashing. Works fine so far.

I uploaded a lot of photos from ZCON 2015. I hope you had the chance to enjoy them. They will be on my blog/flickr account as long as I can leave them there. I had a great time at ZCON and wrote up my experiences from the past week. It's a little long-winded, but I hope you enjoy it. https://fiddlingwithzcars.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/zcon-2015-epilogue-and-recap/

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My 280Z was due for a roadworthy inspection so I was checking the lights and noticed the front indicators were not very bright. I never paid much attention to them before because I was planning to switch to 240Z lights when the 240z bumper and air dam were fitted. I still have not decided on the type of air dam yet so these turn signals will be around for a while. After dismantling them it was clear why they didn’t shine very bright. 1. The chrome reflector was so badly corroded. The chrome layer was falling of the metal plate and the metal plate was rusted. 2. The lens was covered in red and black over spray from the PO paint job. Considering the effort required I’m impressed with the results and decided to show them here. I didn’t think it rated a technical article so I posted it in the electrical section. Here are some step by step photos of the lenses. I dismantled the lens and cleaned it with paint stripper. The paint stripper from Rustoleum (Green Nr 1) is mild and does not attack the plastic used in the turn signals. I let it work for about 10 minutes and had to repeat it twice to get all the paint off. They clean up really well considering there age. The reflector section was a different story. The chrome layer was past any restoration attempts. I ended up scrapping all the chrome off and sanding the metal back smooth and priming it. I coated it with aluminium tape to substitute for chrome. Doesn’t look all that crash hot on the photos. The reflection shows every imperfection. it would be better in thin polished stainless steel, but I didn’t have the time and these won't be permanent. The orange lenses came up nice after sanding with 240, then 800 and finishing with 1200 grit emery paper and being carefull not to sand all the text away. After sanding I buffed them with 2-cut polish. The stuff used to polished badly faded paint. This is the final result. Chas This post has been promoted to an article

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I believe he is enjoying DC. I remember suggesting that he go to the National Air & Space Museum annex at Dulles while on that trip.

You've got great eyes! I get thrown out of Victoria's Secret dressing rooms all the time. Content and happy? One word, ALCOHOL!

If you wanted to see happy, you should have seen Jim after the banquet.

I've already looked. Like 14 hours and the forecast this week was 80 headed toward the mid 70's far superior to the high 90's in Memphis. Looking forward to it. I am hoping to have something running by then. We will see. It was very motivating to come see all the beautiful cars.

HA! I knew that photo had my curiosity up, I have heard of photos "catching" other world images. Good photo bomb Steve!!! I did not realize it was a "stitch" photo. But guess that was your intent. Sorry my eyes are bad, and you looked like a female Site. Please forgive me! Just an old lady trying to keep up with you kids. Y'all looked so content and happy!

"The lady on the left"? Is that me or Zup? Caitlyn Jenner? Okay, I'm the one i guess? That's the awards banquet that I was late to get to. SteveJ, carographer that he is, did a fantastic photobomb for me. Thank Yoy Steve!

Jim Arnett had one of the biggest 5h!+-eating grins I have ever seen. When I went to shake his hand, he was so excited, he almost crushed by hand like an old beer can.

Little more progress. Sent from my iPizzle ringy dingy device....