I've been working about every night this last week to get the shell ready to bring this morning. It wasn't actually bolted to the truck and ready to go until 6:30A this morning. :O I need to get better photos, but I had to epoxy on a couple parts to give me a good spot to bolt it down, and didn't get those ready to glue on until day before yesterday. Everything was set and hard this morning, so I put the shell on the truck, drilled a couple holes in the bed, finally, attached it, and hit the road.
The shell has gotten a bunch of trim work done over the last week. Also, I built the door/panel that goes on the side over the last four days:
The resin (put on at ~1AM last night) was still a bit soft this morning. :P Here's a shot before mounting to the truck this morning with it pretty much complete and in place!
At Make Faire!
I was time constrained making the trip to the Faire this morning, so I did 65mph the entire way, except in downtown SF where the limit is a bit lower. My Avg mpg for the trip down was 31.7. That's a good sign... I still need to make the tirp back, and to do some additional tests, but that looks good. Normally, I get closer to 27mpg at that speed.
I'm making a trip up north next weekend, so I'll get to do some 55-60mph travel, following semis and whatnot, and see how far up into the 30s I can go on the hwy. some time in the next couple months, once I get a bit more work done, I need to pull off the shell, bed extension to clean things up, so I'll have the opportunity to do and ABA test.