Put your left fender in put your left fender out.

So after some time with a hammer and dolly I have gotten the dents out of the shape of a truck bumper and more into the shape of a vespa.

Back on the Horse

So I got back on PK today for the first time since my accident. It was a bit scary. I got the clutch working however so it ran well. I am having to run it with the choke out and I need to tighten the gearing cables a bit tighter. I am so tempted to take it to a local dealer to get it timed just right and get things tightened, I have tried my best to tighten things the best I can. I am thinking about driving it to school to finish the body work and then taking it in after that. It was fun but a bit scary taking it out on the road for the first real time. I still have some electrical issues to work out but overall it it looking on the up and up.
I will post some pictures of the body work part two soon.

From Before

Here are some images Holly took before the "incident".

Die hard vespa

So I have had to take a break from working on PK but I saw this and had to post it.
This is die hard. Great tattoo. (for those who have never ridden a vespa on the left grip is the gear shift and this is exactly what is there on the shifter)

Small problem... big set back.

So I am a little down about the whole project today. I have learned lot through this and I am still learning about myself and what I need to become. So in the ongoing metaphor of PK as my internal rebuild that I have been going through for the past year...I have hit a major setback. As you can see in the photo something went wrong. I Took it out into the street and started it up and depressed the clutch and when i selected the gear (normally you would slowly let out the clutch lever and it would slide into gear) I didnt even release any pressure off of the clutch lever and it jumped into gear. The clutch would not disengage and the brake could only slow it down and not stop it from crashing into the back of my friends truck.
This comes at a time for me personally where I am having to deal with alot of internal situations that I originally got PK to work along side of the things I was fixing in myself. I however ended up concentrating more on PK than myself. So I think I dervered this in some round about way and I am learning that my personal restoration is not going to be in my timing but Gods and that it will be humbling at parts and triumphant at times but I cant give up. I tried to set deadlines and expectations that I now know are crippling. Anyhow I am going to take some time away from the vespa, and get the focus back where it should be and when the time is right I will finish PK. This is really tough for me however. It is all I can think about sometimes is getting it finished and getting it our of looking so painful. But if I start on it now I will get obsessed with it again and I will have not put into practice what I am learning.

First Kick

So here is some much awaited video.
Here is the first kick after a long rebuild. I have been working on this since August of last year. I took it around the block and man does it scream.

I still have some work left to do (cable adjustments, floor rails, taillight, and minor electric work)

Sneak Peek

So here it almost done. It doesnt have the cowl covers on or grips or a proper taillight or the floorboards on...but this is how it is looking. When it is all done I will take some proper portraits not in the garage.