I'm not yet ready to put the aluminum skin back on Lil' Queeny, and I don't want to be rushed in doing so. In fact, I think I may want to almost finish the interior before enclosing the outside, but summer Jeeping season is here!
This weekend, for example, is the Memorial Day car show and while our driving top down to it isn't exactly a tradition set in stone, the grandson does have some memories, if not expectations, for this beginning of the season Jeep ride.
And I think I've been hearing a few grumblings lately coming from that side of the garage that sound eerily like Lil' Willy. I think I heard a, "come on Dave, serious? Six months and now more?"
So I came up with this idea to move the shop around. If I could get the Jeep and the aluminum skin over to the tall garage stall with the single door I could hang the metal higher and pull the Jeep in and out as needed this summer. I could also rig it to bring the metal down to a height where I could work on it, then raise it back up to put Lil' Willy to bed!
That way I could put DW's Little Yellow Angel over where Lil' Willy was and place Lil' Queeny right smack dab in the middle.
So yesterday I played Dominoes.
After cleaning up the area around Lil' Willy and preparing for a drive-out, I remembered I had to unload the pea-gravel in the utility trailer for DW's garden paths, but the wheelbarrow tire needed filling (it seeps).
I needed air in the Alaska souvenir tires too (small utility trailer that may be next winter's project) so as to first move it and put the boat trailer over there, out of the way from the hard-water sprinkler spray.
But the son needs the bigger utility trailer for a sand and gravel job so I first needed that emptied. I aired-up the wheelbarrow tire and on the first load - it blew out. Dang cheap Chinese rubber. But it was getting old and it showed it. It was over to the store for a new tire.
So I got the gravel unloaded, the souvenir tires aired up and the gravel trailer tires checked and aired.
The I had to raise the stern-drive on the boat to move it, so pulled back the boat cover and installed the battery for the beginning of the season, raised the drive and moved the boat trailer.
Then I opened the garage bay doors and moved the Little Yellow Angel out. Then we moved Lil' Queeny (on that super handy camper dolly) over into the middle bay and shuffled the benches and other stuff.
Then DW held the aluminum skin up while I crawled into Lil' Willy and then held the skin inward while I drove it out, just like a little covered wagon.
Then I cleaned up what I could and broomed it all out, moving Lil' Willy's cardboard over to the new spot (With his age -1954 - he has a little bit of a leaking issue. We try to be discrete about that by the way).
Then we pulled Lil' Willy into the tall bay and closed all the doors.
Normally we don't keep firewood in the garage, but it's been so wet lately that we had to share space for that too.
Okay, here's some pictures.
Now if I can just figure out how to raise the metal!
