Hot Rods 1st day of retirement today, now back to the Y Brock coupe

Spent my first day as a retired person today, and wasted no time getting back to my project car. Actually all I did was load the body into the pickup and take it over to Barillaro Speed to be finished. The Y BROCK Coupe is under construction again after a long hiatus.
As a retirement gift my employer knew I had a project underway so they gave me a nice parting gift, could have been because they appreciated my work or maybe they were that glad to be rid of me! . Some of you may recall I started a project and build thread about 2 years ago documenting build progress on my Y block powered 30 highboy coupe on deuce rails.
The project got delayed halfway into it for various reasons. Well it's on again and hopefully will be finished in time to drive it to the LSRU in April.
Here is a picture of progress so far and a shot of Mike Barillaro getting back to work on the body today. Further build progress will be shown, on the original build thread titled The Y-BROCK Coupe posted by garage2small.

 

GO man! Today marks my 6 Month anniversary of my retirement and so far I love it. Very nice coupe.

 

Where is the pic of you sitting in your underwear, smoking a Cigar until noon?
(neat car, and congrats!)

 

Congratulations on your retirement,sounds like you had a great boss. HRP

 

Barillaro looks like he trying to figure out how to finish it for $1k - Ha! have fun in retirement - you will be busier and spend more $ than you ever planned for.

 

Congratulations! It is a great fraternity! Been retired now almost ten years. Busier now then when I was working, you will find this to be true also.
Some advice...stay very active and exercise daily. Walking is great for the heart so take a small break when you can and go for a walk. I now walk a mile 3 times a week. I can feel the difference. Good luck and keep posting pics.

 

Congratulations on retirement, prepare for a lot fun, it doesn't get any better now.

 

Congratulations, Now get to work on that A!

 

Hope you are ready to stay busy................Before retirement, i just thought i was busy. Now i know how busy you can be when having fun every day. Congratulations on the retirement. I hope you enjoy yours as much as i am enjoying mine!

 

Already having fun, already "busier than a long tail cat in a room full of rocking chairs" and already pegged the needle on the "budgetometer" long ago!

 

Awesome coupe! Congratulations on your retirement I am very jealous! Hobo Jim

 

Congrats on retirement and getting your project on track. That gift was pretty cool for your old boss to do also.

 

Congrats on your retirement and on the nice car! You must have worked for a pretty good company for them to know what you valued, and rewarded you with a parting gift that supported your passion. Not many employers like that any more.

Good luck!

 

Congrats on your retirement. I handed in my badge, ID card, time card and SIDA badge today as this is official retirement day for me also.

 

Congrats,The Coupe us coming out Great,What Color? Enjoy your retirement,Lucky

 

That's good advice which will be followed, I started my walking routine last week end 2.4 miles every morning, next week I will bump it up to 3 miles each morning (9 degrees here this morning). Also I have heard old retired guys get a lot of exercise jumping to conclusions, flying off the handle, and stretching the truth!

Thanks to all for the congratulations and good wishes.

 

TWO OF YOU!
Congratulations to you both.

 

So happy for you, glad to see the Coupe is heading for the finish line.

 

Congratulations to you also Mr48chev, I hope your 1st day is as enjoyable as mine was.

 

Can't go wrong with shiny black!

 

Congrats

 

Congratulations!
Will be eight years for me this year.
Glad to see that your car is back. The twins are the best! I'm on the wait list.

"Retirement: Where every day is a Saturday."

 

I just googled the word "retirement"
That's a cool concept.
Congrats

 

Retirement six Saturdays and then you have Sunday, In April I will be retired 21 years.

 

Enjoy your retirement... Cool coupe....

 

Happy, happy and very long retirement. The Coupe is looking great, can't wait to see it somewhere when it's finished. I owe you a PM, sorry I've been busy just trying to stay warm.......Don.

 

I got most of you beat. It will be 20 years this july since i retired

 

congrats,..you should be real proud of that coupe, looks great!

 

Retirement is not too far off for me.......I need to get a cooler car!

 

Congrats - Best thing - stay busy and quit looking in mirrors !