It's a big job and it took me a few weeks! But it's totally a do-able job for the average car restorer like myself. Here's how I did it.

I turned two old bicycles into one. Here's how.

The Valley of the Giants is a very small area with very large trees, many over 450 years old. The hellish 30-mile drive through ravaged industrial timberlands to the giants makes one appreciate the importance of this refuge.

My wife gave me until the end of April to wrap this thing up. Did I get to drive-able in time? Click to find out!

I get the doors mounted, new wheels mounted, repair the front apron, test fit the fenders, do some rust repair, and make brackets for the front bumper. Almost done with stage 2!

It's been a few months since my last post on this project and a lot has happened since then! Including building custom rocker panels that connect the VW door sills to the Miata pinch seams.

I needed to get the size of an mp3 file in the PHP code that I wrote to make XML data for Podcasts.

Bellow is three different functions that achieve that objective, using the curl, get_headers and fopen functions. Hope this helps!

I learned a valuable lesson on the morning after submitting my latest Alexa skill for certification. I had an email from the Alexa certification team letting me know that their tests had failed. I thought that was odd because everything was working perfectly fine when I left work the previous day. I was using AWS Lambda to host the back-end code (within a Node.js environment) and hadn't set up the versioning system because I didn't know about it. [update: I'm now using the AWS CLI to locally host my code and push it to Lambda, which is what I recommend.

You can't really call yourself a Drupal developer if your site is still on Drupal 7. Right? So it was high time for me to upgrade Dannix from D7 to D8. Here's how I did it, the problems I ran into, and what I did to overcome them. 

This was a big milestone for this project.

With the Miata's wheelbase stretched to match the VW's I started prepping the rest of it for the body/chassis swap. And I got the Type 3 Squareback ready as well. 

With the house remodel finally finished after two years, I really wanted to use the work shop as a garage for a project car. But the problem is that the work shop, although it has a garage floor and concrete driveway leading up to it, has a wooden floor that absolutely could not hold up even a small car. I decided to change that!

At the last second, I decided not to use the Super Beetle body for my Miata chassis swap after all, and instead use this beautiful gem: a '67 VW Type 3 Squareback.

After cutting it in half and pulling it apart 6" to get the wheelbase I needed, it was time to put it back together. This meant new driveshaft, a bolt-on extention for the aluminum PPF, extended fuel and brake lines, etc.

Before I can put the Miata that I cut in half back together, I needed to build and install frame rails. Here's how I did it.

Ever wanted to know what it takes to cut a car in half, and then put it back together again? 

My wife (or I guess she was still my fiance at the time) asked me to make the alter for our wedding. Or maybe it's called an arch, or arbor. Whatever it's called, its the big tall thing you stand under at your wedding ceremony.

This is how I made it.

These two cars will become one.

I go further down the rabbit hole, and I've acquired my victim: a '73 Super Beetle.

I've done lost my mind this time.