I’ve always had a bad habit (that I share with many other car audio competitors), or rebuilding and redoing things in my car, often without a good reason.

This was the case here. I just took 3rd place in IASCA’s Expert Street 601+ at the 2005 Unified World Finals show in Kansas City. Got the car home, and started changing some things around for the 2006 Spring Break Nationals. Most of my rebuild work was behind the scenes, focusing on amp rack wiring. But the hot Daytona Beach sun was too much for my vinyl job on the dash, and it started peeling up. At this point, I knew I had to pull the dash out to re-vinyl it, and began thinking.. “If I’m gonna pull the dash out, perhaps I should rebuild one that’s a better shape and blends in the car better”. Well, you can’t rebuild the dash without also redoing the center console, and if you are going to redo the center console, I might as well redo the …. etc … etc …

So, before long, I made the decision to start it all over. See, most of my rebuild work was always in sections at a time. This is the first time I decided that I was going to strip the car and start all over on a clean sheet.

Oh, and you need to keep in mind, that as of September of 2006, I became a father of a little boy. So trying to be a new dad, while also building a car, well, needless to say, it was not done in time for the 2007 competition season.

More to come…