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I spent a little time on the worldometer site ( https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries ) yesterday looking at the data. There is a ton of information there. From the the data, here are a few of my observations. This is the world data. Here are my thoughts on the world data. 1) It looks like we peaked around August 8, give or take a few days, for the daily new cases. The daily death rate has not risen in unison but is very roughly around 5k per day and somewhat flat by comparison. In that same April to August time frame, daily new case rate tripled. I think the reason for this is because of: increased testing availability (thus more tests), improvements in treating the disease (remidisiver?), and the most virulent forms of the virus dying out-They kill their hosts. 2) The big ramp starting in May is when Brazil, India and Mexico joined in on the party (Major population centers). Brazil, Mexico and US are beyond their peaks and ramping down. India looks like they have not peaked yet and they have a heck of a lot of people. 3) China is a non-reporter and has no bearing on these charts. However, in reality, they are a pretty scary unknown since they have the worlds largest population. Also, I think Mexico and India may be underreporting due to some of the more impoverished areas not reporting or providing accurate data (Just guessing on that one) 4) Europe is pretty much past this all with very few deaths coming from England, Spain. France and Italy. My guess would be the few that they have are the elderly. 5) Currently, the overall trend looks to be going down for both daily new cases and daily deaths which is somewhat encouraging. Both charts should continue to show a long slow downward ramp. There may be a few bumps in the downward trend, but I doubt that any of them exceeds the current peaks.

Would be interesting to know how many of those were: asymptomatic, hospitalized or ICU. The fact that they don't mention any hospitalization makes me think it is not very many. In San Diego County we get daily infections, hospitalizations, ICU status and deaths. San Diego had a 0 death day yesterday.

Got so tired of slamming the doors on my white Z to close them that I decided to try the Kia Sportage weatherstripping mentioned on another thread here. Wow, what a difference! Door closes nicely and the door is now aligned again with the rear dogleg panel. My guess is that the metal portion of the Precision brand weatherstripping is too wide. There is no need for it to be that wide. If it was the same as the Kia metal portion, I think it would work well. Unfortunately it does not.

Ah, sorry, was not very clear on that. I put in the old cracked dash with about 6 screws and connected most of the harness connectors. No heater panel or center stuff. Gauges work, ammeter, oil, water , gas and tach. Just enough to run it. Hopefully new dash is available soon.

Took her out for a quick photoshoot. Car is running very nice. Still waiting for a dash so the interior is incomplete, but otherwise she is just about finished.

Thanks! Finally got the air cleaner back from the powdercoat shop. Turns out they were shut down for a week as one of the employees had COVID, thus the delay. Now just waiting for radiator decals and engine bay is complete.

Not trying to be contentious here, but the 'deaths climbing' will always be a fact of life for any statistic of living things. When the number of deaths does not climb we have either A) ALL achieved immortality B. the resurrection of the dead is happening in real time or C) the Zombie apocalypse is upon us. One of my 'pet peeve' phrases.

Still waiting on the new dash from vintage dash and air cleaner from the powder coat shop. Threw the old dash in for now so I could get the motor running. 20200802_163644.mp4

She's Orange! Nice to have the paint done. Will dry and then get color sand. This might be at my place in a couple weeks. I am so ready.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-likely-die-cancer-covid-160541140.html Can't believe the editors let this one out the door.

Thanks, actually they are a bit to stiff to handle the curves though. I had to break them into smaller pieces. That white 1/4" plastic molding is actually perfect. It flexes nicely. I think that was left over from some home improvement project. If I did this a lot, I would get some more of the plastic molding.

Lots of progress this weekend. Got the headliner and pillar vinyl installed. Windshield and exhaust system also installed.

Thanks, most of the parts were there. I just clean'em up, re-plate stuff, or re-paint, then assemble. I like jdm-car-parts.com for parts that I have to replace.

Things are moving along now. Headliner should arrive today, so should have that installed tonight and windshield in on Saturday. Also waiting for Dash, exhaust system and air cleaner.

Sav-On plating in Phoenix. Cassandra is my contact there.

FINALLY! Orange paint. This is great to see. Parts are ready to install as soon as she arrives at my place. Still probably going to be a few weeks. Needs final body paint and color sand and polish.

Looking through the San Diego data, I was surprised by some of the numbers. Very eye opening. Not a single death for those 19 and under for all of San Diego county. That's incredible. 86% of the deaths are of those 60 and older.

The local Patch.com site has the numbers by City for San Diego County. It's a good reference for hot spots.

Nice chart tools on this site. I put CA and NY next to each other and got a pretty interesting graphic. I am betting this is how things end up in CA. For CA, Texas and Florida, the ramp up the curve has started and is pretty unstoppable due to the sheer number of infected people. It will play out like NY and NJ unfortunately.

How incredibly sad ?. He will be greatly missed. Always enjoyed my conversations and time with him. Just one story: It always amused me that at the ZCON judged shows (and other car shows) he would walk around and touch parts, open doors, turn lights off and on, etc. Nobody else could get away with that but him. In fact most consider it an honor that he handled the cars.

I tape to the edge, slightly over. If I go too far over, I trim off excess with a razor blade. Also use the razor blade a lot...for clean-up and trimming. Have it attached to a magnet on my tool box.

I clean it with NEVR-DULL, then tape over before I spray. I use the NEVR-DULL on a number of items.

I use these two: Ford Dark Shadow Gray and then spray over that with matte clear. This is what Les at Classic Datsun Motorsports recommended.

Hi Carl, Thanks for the feedback. Yes, guess I will have to change out those fuel clamps. They are pretty cool though and somewhat rare. Was not sure when they changed those out. The clamp colors are a bit of a question as they seem to have changed over time. I should probably talk to Les Cannady to get the scoop on those, or Jim Frederick. Even so, It still irritates me that most of my clamps have the hex heads which are the knock-offs. It's hard to find these with the original pan-heads.

Yes, I am afraid to drive them when it's a customers car. This one is mine, so I am not so worried. I can always build another one. Got a lot of stuff done over the holiday. Got the radiator re-cored with a three row core. Also got the fuel tank lined, cleaned up and installed. Put most of the fuel tank hoses on. Put in the heater hoses and most of the clamps. Also started putting in panels.