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got my grandson working too. child labor ! I painted the valve covers and plenum blue, now after it cures ill try to DA the ribs to expose the aluminum.

looks like he had fuel injection. ill bet the fuel pump kept going after the crash and he probably didnt have an inertia switch.

That's a good video. At the beginning at 0:28 he talks about beaming and torsioning testing and that most SFCs are just good for "ballast in the boot after you cut them up". If aslanefe, our resident aeronautical engineer will chime in here (I'm an electrical engineer and didn't deal much with structures) he could tell you how thick a single plate of steel would need to be to equal the strength of a rectangular steel tube. I'd rather not revisit my college days in my retirement to look that up. If you notice, starting at 3:35 they welded in a hat shaped beam, turning it into a rectangular steel tube. Good stuff, and it is further verification of the torsion test shown much earlier in this string. SFCs without bracing from side to side do next to nothing for torsion.

Would you look at the size of that thing Ethel :)

Sorry for the car but glad you are okay. Looks like he slid and hit the pole.

I think the outer A/C vents look good all black. All exterior lights are LED.