What did you do to your car today?

[luxstang]

Well been driving it like this since Friday (lower front) or Tuesday (rear) and haven't hit or scraped anything so far, so I guess 'll be ok. Gotta be a little careful in the future.

As Barry said: The look is well wort it!

 

[droptop73]

I like the new look Mike.

 

[mach71351c]

Looks great Mike nice job.

 

[Mister 4x4]

Got an early start to the weekend today - and worked on the Rustang. Took me a couple hours to clean all the junk, funk, and removed parts from the interior. But then, I took the cut-off wheel to the seat platforms and most of what was left of the floor.

Just for fun - I dropped the new floor pans in and it looks like they're going to fit just fine.

Round Two tomorrow. If all goes well, I'm hoping to have the floor pans in for real by the end of the weekend.

 

[sm3570]

Started sanding the body. It took me about 10 minutes to get a 2'x6" section sanded to the primer. At that rate I expect to have the body sanded in...oh, I don't know, two weeks? No problem.

Took the trim off the back window and started removing the window itself. Talk about a filthy job, 40 years of dirt and grim ended up on me, from the waist up. Also found the buck tag on the radiator support. I'll post up some pictures tomorrow.

 

[mach71351c]

More sanding on engine bay. All most dune.

 

[BigPinoyHunk]

installed my Nitto NT05R's 315/35/17 on my 17x11 wheels yesterday! its nice to know i got a usable 1st gear now.

 

[don29163]

Picked mine up from the paint shop, looks pretty good. Going to put the headliner in today.

 

[goodnigh]

Picked mine up from the paint shop, looks pretty good. Going to put the headliner in today.

Keep us posted on how the headliner goes. We are preparing to do that and it will top off the interior restoration project. Have never done a headliner.

mike


Yesterday we worked on replacing the passenger side upper door hinge pin and bushings. We thought it would be as easy as the driver door except this was the original pin so it was flattened on both ends. The driver's door pin just punched out from the bottom. So we brought out the Dremel and sawed the pin in half. What should have been a 20 minute job turned into 3 hours.

mike

 

[Tnfastbk]

Come on folks, PICTURES PICTURE PICTURES

 

[goodnigh]

Come on folks, PICTURES PICTURE PICTURES

OK Will remember that. Would have been a good picture with sparks flying.

mike

 

[luxstang]

I´ve had enough of the bare wood on the Grant steering wheel, especially as there is no wood in the car to go with it. (Well, except the faux wood on the door panels, but it doesn´t help).

So I decided to dye the wood black to give it that classic 60ies racing look. Gotta say, I like it very much. Tomorrow I will seal it with either lacquer or oil of some kind. Gotta figure that out. Don´t really wanna use lacquer as it gets extremely slippery with sweaty hands in the summer.

Here´s a pic:

 

[Tnfastbk]

You mean like this

 

[sm3570]

After the picture beat down that Roy just gave us, here are pics!

The sanding set-up. Craftsman 1/3 sheet orbital sander hooked up to a small vacuum cleaner. There was absolutely no dust, which for me makes up for the fact that it is EXTREMELY SLOW GOING!!!!!!!!!!

The progress, which totaled about an hour worth of work. Maybe a bit more:

Removed rear window trim and the window is about half way out. The seal is dried out so I think I have to cut the seal to get the window out.

 

[Tnfastbk]

After the picture beat down that Roy just gave us, here are pics!

lollerz

Now all you need is a little clear and it will look like the candy "GOBSTOPPER"

 

[don29163]

I sat down and cried about the crappy body work and paint job I got. Tomorrow I will start fixing all of that.

 

[OLE PONY]

I sat down and cried about the crappy body work and paint job I got. Tomorrow I will start fixing all of that.

Thats sad news! Did you complain to the body shop, any recourse?

 

[sm3570]

After the picture beat down that Roy just gave us, here are pics!

lollerz

Now all you need is a little clear and it will look like the candy "GOBSTOPPER"

LOL, I had the exact same thought!

I sat down and cried about the crappy body work and paint job I got. Tomorrow I will start fixing all of that.

Don, really sorry to hear that. Get after 'em!

 

[Tnfastbk]

I sat down and cried about the crappy body work and paint job I got. Tomorrow I will start fixing all of that.

Get after them X 10,000

 

[MotoArts]

Got on the 7-Up reawakening (4 years sitting) list.

Mounted the SSC replica rear 17x9" wheels with 245/50's, redetailed the rear brakes, cut front rotors and detailed all of the components there too. The AOD was shifting funny when parked, so I removed the tailshaft and cleaned the governor (never did that before). Big dummy me ended up tugging on what looked like a small freeze plug, but was the end of the shaft that holds the park pawl. Pawl instantly fell into pan -CLUNK. Now I need to drop the pan. And the tailshaft, probably, again. I would rather eat broken glass than do that job.

And my new tranny cooler line leaks up front.

PS pump leaking now as well.

Oh, the water pump, too.

But that's nuthin'... see the wall behind the car? I proceeded to drop the jacks last night in the dark (before I knew all of this was "bad"), and left the passenger door wide open. Door was higher than the wall since I was doing tranny work and had 'er sky high. Krinked the door bottom good, and possibly the hinges/pillar.

There went my week vacation. Yay.

All of this fun will eventually lead into getting the '71 in the garage. Here's my son pressure washing the driveway where the 7-Up was slumbering.

He's pretty excited about the green one, but knows the blue one will be "his" if he plays the cards right. At age 10, he's already a big help, asks questions and learns quickly.