{"id":3719,"date":"2016-03-30T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/?p=3719"},"modified":"2017-04-28T17:09:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T22:09:13","slug":"the-bench-march-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/the-bench-march-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bench &#8211; March 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March followed the trend of last month. Still reeling from having to strip the VW bus, I continued working on other projects. The 70 Superbird chassis and engine were completed. I dusted off my wildly long term diecast Civic project by grinding off the last of the previous paint attempt and reworking some of the body work.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to finish the repair work on the bus and primed it in hopes of having it in color soon.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3719 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/the-bench-march-2016\/models-2016-065\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/models-2016-065-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/models-2016-065-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/models-2016-065-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3720'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Superbird chassis was completed and looking great!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/the-bench-march-2016\/models-2016-068\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/models-2016-068-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/models-2016-068-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/models-2016-068-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3721'>\n\t\t\t\tOther than the carburetor and air cleaner, the engine is complete and secured to the chassis.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/the-bench-march-2016\/models-2016-069\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/models-2016-069-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/models-2016-069-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/models-2016-069-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3722'>\n\t\t\t\tI love seeing the completed interior hiding inside the &#8220;in progress&#8221; shell. \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/the-bench-march-2016\/models-2016-070\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/models-2016-070-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/models-2016-070-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/models-2016-070-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3723'>\n\t\t\t\tThe bus body repairs are primed in order to check the progress. \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/the-bench-march-2016\/models-2016-071\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/models-2016-071-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/models-2016-071-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/models-2016-071-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3724'>\n\t\t\t\tThe body work on the bus looked good enough and it was time to prime the entire body. \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/the-bench-march-2016\/models-2016-072\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/models-2016-072-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/models-2016-072-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/models-2016-072-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3725'>\n\t\t\t\tI started the die-cast civic in 2005. I have been very reluctant to finish it. During this round, I reworked some of the older body work. \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/the-bench-march-2016\/models-2016-075\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/models-2016-075-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/models-2016-075-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/models-2016-075-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3726'>\n\t\t\t\tThe &#8217;68 Vette hood is in color again as well. \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/the-bench-march-2016\/models-2016-076\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/models-2016-076-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/models-2016-076-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/models-2016-076-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3727'>\n\t\t\t\tProject cars to date.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March followed the trend of last month. Still reeling from having to strip the VW bus, I continued working on other projects. The 70 Superbird&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[199,139],"class_list":["post-3719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bench","tag-199","tag-bench","wpcat-22-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/importnut.net\/models\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}