I’m out of places to store parts; especially large, fragile parts like all of the aluminum panels. After staring at the lift for a few minutes, I decided to hang a shelf underneath it. I used a 4’x4′ piece of plywood and some cord around the lifting arms and fashioned an adjustable shelf and loaded all of the aluminum. It will be a bit of a pain to scrounge around looking for specific pieces, but it will have to do. There is even plenty of room underneath to store the chassis when we’re not working on it.

Work on the car won’t officially start until after June since Jenn’s job is keeping her swamped until then and she doesn’t want to miss any part of the build. I’ll be spending the time between now and then getting the engine ready for assembly.

After inventorying the final parts last night, I spent some time tonight putting together an email with all of the missing, incorrect and damaged parts. Here’s the list I came up with:

• 2 of 15670 #10-24x 3/4” Carriage Bolt
• 2 of 15671 #10-24 Nylon Lock Nut
• 2 of 10635 #10 Washer
• 10611 Windscreen, Chrome on Brass (Roadster)
• 2 of 16242 5/8”-11 x 4.25” Bolt (I received 2 of 1/2”-13 x 3” instead)
• 4 of 10802 Locknut (Retaining Ring)
• 16004 GPS Gauge Set w/Kit
• 4 of 33539 Bolt, 12pt, M12-1.75 x 35mm, (Caliper to Spindle)

Incorrect:

• I received part #13861: 87-95 straight tubes. I should have received the 351W headers.

Damaged:

• 15173 Upper Handle (there is a gouge in the handle that looks like it happened during shipping)

I’m also going to try and return the wiring harness and heater/defroster as I’m going to go a different direction with those.

I finished inventorying all of the cardboard boxes. There are a few oversized items tucked away in the garage, but most of the components ended up in these bins.

These are the remaining cardboard boxes that I’ve inventoried but do not plan to unpack.

The chassis has been sitting on jack stands, but that was always a temporary solution. It will eventually end up on the lift, but I’ve put it on a dolly I built for now to raise it up a bit and make it easy to move around the shop. These casters are 8″ diameter and good for 450lbs each, so this dolly should handle 1800lbs. The finished car will weigh more than that, but I expect to move it off of this dolly long before it’s finished.

Jenn has been feeling sick, so I started the inventory tonight. I unpacked about 10 boxes and fit most of the parts into these 5 bins. These take up much less space and it allowed me to group related parts together that were in separate boxes.

I generated quite a pile of paper and cardboard.

The stack of boxes is considerably smaller now. I don’t plan on unboxing the seats, radiator or fuel tank, so there’s probably only a half dozen boxes left to go through.

I got a call from Jerry, the driver from Stewart Transportation, a few days ago saying that the kit would be here on Saturday! The pressure was on to get the shop organized enough to hold the kit. Just after 1 this afternoon, we heard a truck outside and came out of the garage to the site of a giant Factory Five Racing truck parked across the street!

He relocated the truck across the street to avoid blocking driveways and to expose the better looking side of the truck :-).

Jenn is super excited her Cobra is here!

With the help of my dad and a couple of friends, we quickly had the car and all of the boxes safely in the garage. Jenn wanted the front facing out so that people driving by could tell it is a Cobra 🙂

We have a bunch of inventorying to do, but that will have to wait until another day.