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Where to begin. Okay, initially this was going to be a 2 weekend project, tops. We started this project on 11/25/05 and finished it on 1/15/06, so much for that idea. We were going to take out all of the carpeted shell in the trunk, remove the spare tire, and build a box to set in the space where the spare tire was. We then were going to make a top piece to set over that so it would lay flush. The only problem was that my 15” sub takes 3 cubic feet of airspace. So a flush mount would put the box about 5 inches above the line where my trunk lid would close. It would fit, but look and sound like shit, back to the drawing board. We basically were at a point where I needed a bigger trunk, or a smaller sub. I was not interested in either. So Matt is in the trunk with a tape measure, and he starts yelling out dimensions to me that seemed to be larger than what we had space for. He asked me to figure out the volume for the dimensions he gave me and it ended up being 3.02 cubic feet. Just about perfect. I then asked where he picked up the extra space. He told me that in Scrote’s trunk, in order to save space he tried something new. He used the actual spare tire steel well as the bottom of the box and built a wooden lid for it. Using liquid nails to seal it, it worked out perfectly. So it was then up to me if I wanted to go that route. Well that was an easy decision after all of the thought we put into the design of this only to hit a wall because of space. We stripped the trunk of everything to the point where we were looking at a steel floor. We then sealed every hole we could find with heavy duty liquid nails. Then we figured out the dimensions of the lid, built it, sealed it and laid it in. From there we ran the sub wires and power for the light in the sub under the lid and sealed it down. When it was all set and sealed we had went through 9 caulk size tubes of liquid nails. That had to set up for at least a week. We waited four. The glue was still mushy after two weeks. Once the glue was set, we put the plastic sidewalls back in and made a cardboard template of the top layer to make sure it mated well with the existing carpeted plastic molded side walls. We then cut both halves of the top layer, temporarily mounted the sub, laid the halves in, and made some adjustments on the hole. The sub then came out, and we carpeted the top halves, and laid a small ring of carpet around the hole on the top of the box where the sub sits. We then wired and mounted the sub, secured it over the carpet, and we dropped the top pieces in and mounted the amps. In order for me to keep my stock deck, which I love, I had to buy a line out converter. It converts speaker wire into a RCA output. Most of these are junk and 25-40 bucks at Best Buy. I didn’t want junk so I did some research on a good line out converter. The one I bought was from Automotive Innovations. It is a JL Audio Clean Sweep. It has a RCA input for my iPod, 4 channel speaker wire inputs and 4 channel 8 volt RCA outputs. Most CD players and line out converters only have a 4-6 volt output. So we wired from the dash to the Clean Sweep, then from the Clean Sweep to the JL Audio e4300, from the e4300 to the internal speakers, and also from the e4300, a summed RCA output of the inputs from the Clean Sweep to the Massive Audio D100X, and from the D100X to the Massive Audio CW 15 Stage 2 15” subwoofer. We hid the Clean Sweep under the top layer, and ran all the wires through ports we cut in said layer. We had to take the back bench seat out to hide all of the wires, and we ran the D100X gain control and the Clean Sweep gain control under the carpet and out the underside plastic of the center console. Here it is all finished, and here is a pic of it in the dark bumping.

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From what I can remember, Amanda and I started at my Aunt Cherie’s for about an hour and played with Riley. Then realized that Gary’s band was playing down at Peacock’s, so we went there. When we got t0 Peacock’s They were about halfway through the first set and, and the place was packed, Scott was dancing, and there was a Lance sighting. Hi Lance! We went down to G’s for a bit before we went home and ran into Brent and Sean. I took about 200 pictures that night but you only get to see 23.

The rest of the pics.

Christmas morning started at Amanda’s house where we opened gifts from her mother and helped Nayte get his toys working. After opening all the presents, cleaning up and playing with Nayte, we went down to my Mom and Dad’s to open more stuff. My mother got me a pretty sweet new digital camera, the Canon SD450 and the all weather case for it. So come summertime at the Flamingo, there will be all new picture aspects for you viewers at home. I say that my mother gave me the camera because if my pappy had anything to say about it, I would have gotten a card that said “Fuck You this card cost too much.” So thanks for the camera mom. After opening all our presents there, Amanda and I went to Tom and Lori Calvert’s for her Family Christmas. Amber got to see her friend Autumn, and for some reason, she broke out in red anger blotches from seeing her. Who knows? Everything was going well until I dropped a full can of open Pepsi in between the back of Tom’s Mother’s chair, and Tom’s Mother’s back. All I could do is watch it slip out of my hands and fall in slow motion to her ass where it glug glug glugged all over her seat. Lori got her a dinner napkin for her to sit on and one to prop behind her to soak it all up. She didn’t even flinch. After everyone had a good laugh, lunch was finished, we had some dessert, and we opened presents. It seems Tom’s Mother’s feet were melting while we were opening presents. Anyhow, Nayte got a little plastic gun that shot suction cup darts which Amber and I had more fun with then he did. After Tom and Lori’s, Amanda and I went to my Aunt Cherie’s house. We basically sat around the tele and drank. Dad wore a rainbow themed shirt which he caught plenty of shit for and I got slightly drunk. Even Bri got a little drunk, thanks to Amanda. My mother’s father, Bob, showed up for a little while. He left about 30 minutes into 40 Year Old Virgin. I guess he didn’t find it funny. Sorry Bob. After a few more drinks and the majority of the movie Amanda and I went home. A few days later we had another Christmas gathering at Cherie’s for the rest of the family. Dan and Mindy were in town with my little cousin Riley. There was a gift exchange, and judging by this picture of Cherie, I doubt the Santa Soap Co. will be calling her for an endorsement.

Here are a few Christmas wishes from my father and Amanda, Mitch, Mike, and Derek.

Here are the rest of the Christmas pics.

Here are the pics from Nates Birthday. There isn’t much to tell other than drinks were had and Todd was really drunk.