It seems like it’s customary for builders to put together a completion announcement and I haven’t done so yet.  So … here’s mine! SLC Chassis #269 is officially complete.  You can read more about how I came to decide upon building an SLC in my very first post. It seems like forever ago that my…

… they were wrong. I’ve picked up on some chatter here and there about tinting the side windows of an SLC. The chatter summed up in 4 words is “it can’t be done”.  I didn’t quite understand why but I endeavored to find out.  The earlier generation side windows were tinted but didn’t have the…

In December of 2016 (almost 2 years ago!) I wrote post 7, “build planning & order process”.  I had a much different idea of how this SLC build was going to go.  I had carefully thought out how I was going to build this car: Phase 1: Build it It would be a somewhat rough…

Well this doesn’t look good … Bob recommended I hit up Kirk’s Radiator in El Cajon to give me a hand getting my AC charged.  Bob’s been taking his Studebakers here for years and it’s the only shop he trusts to do this type of work.  So I brought the SLC down to Kirk’s –…

Well, today was an interesting day.  I still haven’t installed my side windows and the forecast had called for a 40% chance of rain the evening before.  When I woke up this morning I looked outside and sure enough, the ground looked like it had been sprinkled on.  Things were starting to dry up a…

So I got super excited back on Black Friday (of 2016!) because I thought once my home renovation project was over I’d be slamming this SLC together in just a few months.  Dipyourcar.com was having their Black Friday sale and I jumped on a bunch of paint and equipment in anticipation of needing this stuff…

SB100 is a California Legislative Bill that allows for 500 specialty constructed cars to be registered in California each year.  Cars such as the GT40 replica, Cobra replicas, and the SLC all fall under this bill.  The magic of this bill is it allows for one to build a kit car, register it in California,…