Cool build as I've followed it from the start. Keep the pics and updates coming.

Didn’t get much done over the weekend. Saturday I ended up tending to a sick wife and Sunday between church, food shopping, and spending time with my family just didn’t leave a lot of time to work on the car. I was able to find a little time Saturday morning where my mom could give me a hand measuring for the vinyl top.

My mom is a semi-professional quilter with a long arm machine in my parent’s basement so she’ll be able to sew it all. She thinks with 4 yards of material we’ll be able to do the roof, top of the dash, and a set of door panels.

Before I order the material I’m going to try making a pattern out of paper for the roof so we can get a proper measurement and be able to compare the size of what SMS sells to what I need to do everything.

Pictures are of the pattern my mom and I measured out for the roof, an old snap on toolbox I picked up for Marty that once cleaned I’ll put together a tool set for him to play with, and Marty figuring out how to make a ramp with his trains. I should’ve bought stock in the toy company that makes the wooden train stuff.

Having your Mom as a quilter will be a huge help in configuring how to make that top. My wife has been quilting for 34 years and has a long arm in it's own room in our lower level too.
Where did you find that tool box with Marty's name already on it, that is a "gotta have" item...:smile:
My son was given one of those train sets when he was young, but didn't play with it enough to expand, thank goodness. The cars may have wooden then too, If I recall ???

Yes the trains are still wooden too. My wife has been able to buy several sets on eBay rather than pay full price. Eventually we’ll move into actually O gauge train sets so I can spend more money on that lol. Pictured is one of the tracks Marty put together himself in the house.
And yes the tool box came up for sale about 2 hours away on fb marketplace. A friend at work sent it to me and I forwarded it to my wife. We made a day out of picking it up. Someone must’ve scrapped it and this guy sold it rather than scrap it. I think it was well worth the 50 bucks I paid. Someone must’ve really liked it to because it has a painting on the back of a guy riding an old Cat Bulldozer(I used to work for Cat and one of the first words Marty said is Ba for bulldozer). So I thought it was too cool to pass up.

I’m very lucky my mom has been quilting for a couple decades now. She’s not worried about making the top. More about getting all of the angles right and getting it glued down when needed lol.

Making patterns will be a big help in figuring out seams to use less fabric.
My son would always spit pacifiers out and suck on his 2 middle fingers too and seeing Woody brings back a lot of memories too. He was born in '96 and was young when those movies came out and he was enamored with them.
I still remember one of the lines from Woodie "talking". "There's a snake in my boot". Must have heard that a thousand times..LOL

Haven’t had much time this week to mess with the gasser. After making a few phone calls I ended up ordering all my drive parts from Alkydigger. The owner was very helpful and was able to send me everything I needed to start figuring out all of my drive stuff for the front of the engine. Now I just need to figure out where/how to brace the alternator and figure out a belt for it. I also need to measure for the blower drive up at the top.