Are you a 100%er?!? Do you know one?!?

yup..........

 

I trained at college for two years full time in all aspects of vehicle restoration and although I can do everything from mechanical to electrical, upholstery to woodwork I could not claim to be professional at everything and there is the rub. I think most things are fairly straight forward and you can work out how to do an engine rebuild or quickly learn how to use a sewing machine but, to do sheet metalwork on a car properly is another thing. It can be learned but using a Mig welder to patch up and chucking bondo over the resulting mess is not ‘doing’ it!. No-one can claim to be a 100%er if this is what they do.

 

i am, although i didnt do my machining on my engine, i did custom work, paint, buffing, engine ***embly, electrical, brakes and lines, suspension, exhuast, i am about to start sewing now, i have done door trims before but this will be my first full interior, i dont have a walking foot machine, just a industrial juki and its real fast with a clutched industrial motor, not a servo drive with a gas pedal type machine so i am scared.
i clean cars for a living so no trade experience is used till the car is finished, i mainly work in the driveway but now can squeeze the car in the shed since most parts are back on it.

 

I'm a 100%er when I have enough cash, money, mula, dinero, yen, duckets, or cabbage it takes to do all that stuff you mentioned.

 

Burt Munroe from Invercargill,South Island ,New Zealand ,yip he cast his own pistons,in bake bean cans

 

Perfect example of how nobody gets to 100%. Burt's a legend and rightly so. And fits this threads definition of hundred percenter......


Let's view this from the foundryman's angle. Foundry work is really a craft, there's a lot of technology mixed with an equal dose of artisian and sprinkled with gut-feel voodoo. Like many crafts you can spend a lifetime and never feel it's mastered.

So if foundrywork is 10% of the 100, as a foundryman who's read up on Burt, I rate his methods/knowledge halfway at best, making him cap out at 95%. Those pistons were an achillies heel, and somebody who truly knew foundrywork could've taken em to a new level. And the man's an absolute legend with a handcrafted machine.

How many lifetimes and what pile of resources would you need to achieve 100%???? More than I'll ever have.

 

I try to be. sometimes its more cost effective to have someone else do the work. For example, my engine was about $700.00 less for mr to have Johnnie Cook do it that if I were to do it myself. He could get the parts wholesale.

Mark

 

I found this pic of when I had Burts bike in my care,this photo was taken about 15 years ago,thats my Lil girl ,Becks sitting on the beast.

 

No, I know a few 1%ers though, Oh sorry wrong site.

I can do it all except the upholstery, I might could do the upholstery but I haven't really tried.
And if I can talk someone else into it I usually try and get someone else to squirt the paint just because it isn't something that I enjoy doing. I build cars because I enjoy doing it not for fortune and glory so if there is some part of it that I don't like I try to avoid that part.

 

I did everything on my car from beggining to end. Ch***is, suspension, fabrication, went through the motor and trans, did all body work, patch panels, wiring, and upholserty. I got the rough idea from helping my dad wrench on cars for a few years...but if i didn't know what i was doing, id research it, try it a couple times and eventually get it right. all in all people seem to be impressed when they hear im 21. the only thing 2nd to driving a car, is knowing that you busted your *** and built it yourself.

 

I do everything except upholstery, but as soon as I find a decent deal on an old sewing machine I will have that covered as well. I recently got into building wood bed floors on pickup trucks, from scratch. I bought all the planers, miter saws and routers needed to do them, and the three I have done have come out pretty awesome.

 

26.3%er