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I feel a restoration coming on...

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Mustafa, any pictures of your restoration progress and lessons learned?

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I just recently put some pice online. It (the site...or the car really) is not where I want to it be just yet--this is my first time doing this, but I guess it doesn't hurt to share now.

www.mustafasoylemez.com

Sorry for the slow upload time on the pics--can someone tell me what "size" the pics should be to have good upload speeds yet have good quality images?

Mustafa

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You're using the attribute tags correctly in the HTML, but that's just scaling the pics in a browser. Resize them in photoshop to something around 800x600. Also save as web and put the quality down to about 4 or 5. 98% of the users won't know, 100% will enjoy the page load times.

Ben
 
I'm impressed.
 
You can size the pictures down even more, and still get good results. When I'm helping the teachers at work, I tell them to make the picture so no dimension is greater than 400 pixels. That looks plenty big on most web pages for most pictures. Probably wouldn't go bigger than 640x480 in most cases--that's a big picture on the web.

Ben's comment about resizing them in Photoshop or some similar program is great advice--using the HTML tags to resize the photo is a bad idea. Those size items are really just there to tell the browser how big the picture is. It still has do download the entire big image, and scales afterwards. The worst of both worlds.
 
...and nice work on your car! I'm impressed. When you have this one done, feel free to come and work on mine any time. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Hi Drew,

I bought my big Healey in rough running shape and did a two year rolling restoration. I went through most of the suspension, brakes, interior and it was running really well (although it was burning/leaking a bit too much oil). A total ground up was not in the picture but then I was hit by an SUV which put the car in the bodyshop. When they pulled the motor to get to a structural area I decided it was time. It has been 3.5 years working on it part time and I'm getting close to getting it back on the road. I've learned a ton about the car and it will all be worth it but I've missed not being able to drive it and take trips. I say do the rolling restoration if you can so that you can continue to enjoy the car. I have some pictures parked here.
https://www.loftusdesign.net/restorationweb/

Cheers,
John
 
thanks Drew. I think my wife would kill me if I started in on another bugeye/car...she is already tired of hearing me say "I'm working on the car"...plus, I think I am going to try for my pilot's license next-in due time. Fun stuff for sure.
 
Mustafa - are you located in Orange County too? From the Costa Mesa body ship your site referenced I'm guessing you are.

We'll have to get all the local folks together later this summer!
 
Tom, yes, you are right. I am in the OC (NB, to be precise). A get together would be terrific. I just need about another month (I think, but I've said this before)...
 
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A swap could probably be done easily in a weekend, if everything was ready.

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More likely in a short afternoon. If you get a 1275, try to get a ribcase tranny to go with it.
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The more I think about it, the more this seems to be the plan. Try to solve the current issues with the current setup, and keep my eyes out for a local source for a 1275/ribcase. When one comes up, rebuild that setup, and swap it in. I'm not in a rush, and this seems to provide the least down time.
 
yep, my plan as well.
 
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