I'm convinced Weatherby has mastered the science of time travel. Nothing less than a time-warp has occurred based on the perfection of that dash. I'm starting to think this rig cannot be driven as the work is simply far to good to dirty. I'm serious. I know, I know, cats must always be driven, life-blood, etc... but this is different. We have to recognize, acknowledge, and proceed with care... in one way it's a shame not to drive and use such a rig... in a bigger way I think it's a greater loss to lose a perfect example of history. At a point, stones will chip the paint, no matter how hard the Imron...scratches will form on the dash... it will get scuffed.
I only bring it up because it's so beautiful that it must stay at this level of perfection. We only have a limited amount of time before Weatherby completes his project. I think we should start a fund that forum adminsters manage and we can paypal cash into it to buy Weatherby another 601...one that he can drive around and have fun in while this one stays in perfect historical condition.
If 120 of us (and you all know how much you like weatherby's thread), chip in $50 each... we can buy him *another* 601 that he can play with...needs some work but to get it in proper order for fun would take weatherby a couple of days. It would be great to do a web-survey on the forum...ask the members who would support getting the W a new 601.
Maybe we can use this an incentive for folks to restore some perfect cats and bring them back to perfect glory...requirement being concourse condition...sprytes, J5's, Krusties, ...uh, well, let me try that again...sprytes, J5's...and other cats.
It's so good... I can even see the nose hairs in Weatherby's reflection in the headlight casing.
Let me guess, you looked up this serial number cat and found a historical quality control slip that said the third screw in the Hobbs meter was missing...so now maintaining historical accuracy you left the screw out! Nice!
I think, though, that if the -40 weather in Minnesota heads your way, you'll want to roll your project back inside and be sure to install those windows in it.
I discovered a (factory made) "miss-calculation on the body mount locations on 1 of the 8 that exist, It is welded on about 3/16" off center which made it much more of a job to get the cab aligned with the frame. I will show a pic of what I'm talking about in the next couple of days. I'm going to lift the cab back up to cut it off and re-weld it in it's correct location. Ohhh this woda been soooo much easier to do when I had the cab upside down
