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Seems to be. They do a lot of work on steel body cars. I didn't even realize there were that many around. The biggest joy I have gotten out of the FFR is it has enabled me to meet more in the local community that own, operate and work on these cars. They've turned quite a bit of business since I first showed up in December.
You need to look up Jack, who posts here as "Henry Rifle" and now lives in Little Elm, just north of Lake Dallas which is not too awfully far from you. He's a great guy with a righteous bright yellow '34 that he built himself. You might PM him.... He doesn't seem to get on here as much any more.
Loose the bustle? You don't like a big booty!
"Fat bottom girls, you make the rockin world go 'round!"
Not my build. On the other hand, how many bustles have any of us ever seen?
I sold mine. 36 Chevy master sedan. It was too much project for my too small shop.
here is another project at the shop
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You know whats funny, how much your taste differs on cars from when you where young to when you where older. When I was younger I couldn't stand mustang II's, late 60's Novas, late 70's Monte's and loved baby birds, all vettes etc. Now its flipped completely, I have no desire for a baby bird now, but appreciate the mustang II's & Nova's etc. Its going to be a nice baby bird and at one point I dreamed of one but now I would rather have the sedan with the bustle!! Heck I even think the late 70's land yachts are getting cool! Back then I was embaressed to be seen in one
There's some truth in how our "tastes" change / evolve. But personally, cars from say 73 to 79 (for me..) are just a blemish and should've just been crushed and forgotten. I may have mellowed some. I'll just call it nostalgia tho'.. :LOL::eek::LOL::eek::LOL:
Hold that thought
For how long??? gettin' heavy...:LOL::eek::rolleyes::HMMM::3dSMILE::LOL:**)**)Quote:
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Ha, been raining here and work has been pretty busy. I hope to get another load of photos tomorrow evening
Saw a lot of the work finished on the fiberglass prep today. Largely the work consisted of aligning panels extending material to cover gaps and strengthening structural areas we found to be weak.
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WRP, are you going to do your own paint? If you are just a tip, where the new glass lines butt up to the existing gel coat, where you extended the glass to make the lines correct. I found out before that I did the exact same thing and even epoxy primed these areas and after 1 season the new glass shrunk enough I can see a line, just part of regluing glass as they will shrink at different rates, I should have ground down a very minor amount and used a skim coat of filler and it would not have happened, dont get me wrong its a minor amount but I could see the line but nobody else did, I even blocked the clear coat out on part and it went away so the line is minimal. It appears they will skim coat it but just trying to help make sure not to have work later on after it looks great when picked up. Looks like nice work, there is a lot of great paint out there but the lines and gaps are what I look for......
Thanks for the tip. We intend to go back over the area with filler, I am actually not doing the paint myself, 121 Rod & Restoration is doing it, though they are showing me how to do it as we go. thanks for pointing it out to me though.
The things they are doing are going to make the difference between average and great, improper gaps drive me crazy with a great paint job. This is a great thread as I wondered the body quality of the factory five stuff. Just imagine how many paid what you did that did not align or correct the issues and ended up with the same money (or real close to it) and a inferior finished product. Again great thread
I rat rodded the car a couple of years and ran into theses guys by accident. They actually have a pretty respectable resume of successful show winning cars. Seeing the quality of their work and talking to them about issues really gave me confidence to turn it over to them. Pretty much everything else on the car I have pulled apart and put together once or twice, I have been extremely satisfied with the work they are doing. I would have had to redo it three or four times. so people that build a lot of these cars criticize some fiberglass kit car packages. This was one of the earliest Factory Five Kits, #75 The car has had nearly 10 years to sit and settle. They are telling me that as these things go this one is in pretty good shape. There were some normal things to overcome but I really enjoy them showing me what they do and why they do it.
As always, thanks for sharing the pics and the "ride".. it should be amazing once completed.
I think in the next week or so it is going to start coming together
Back from fiberglass, ready to start the final prep for paint.
Looking good. There is a lot coolness setting at that place!
Amen, can u see the Buick Straight 8 sitting in front of my car?
Sort of. I see all kinds of stuff to keep me entertained. :LOL:
I offered to buy tickets to roam around the shop.
A common problem that FFR 33 builders encounter is the trunk lid curvature not matching the body. Some have resorted to bolting square tubing, bent to shape or much fancier machined aluminum reinforcements to the inner trunk skin to pull it into shape.
I've read a lot about the car on the two factory five forums.
Lid fits fine, there is an issue with the body along the rear where the latch mounts, it is flimsy. We are going to reinforce it. We did use the Tim Whitteaker gas shock kit but only to stabilize the work done.
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Guys made a ton of progress today. Got the roof premiered and got a long way towards finishing the paint prep. We found the rear of the car was very weak around the trunk latch so we built a shelf to help structurally.
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Sanding, sanding, and then more sanding.. ugh.. LOL. Nice progress
This is fun to watch, I've never seen a fiberglass build before, thanks for all the photos!
Thanks Seth,
I think 35_40 has been through it :). It has been interesting to see the steps involved. My understanding is that it is inherently wavy, some worse than others. Stage I was to sand and find the low spots then fill them. Stage II was to find the larger seam gaps and structural areas that needed reinforcing. The idea was that it wasn't cool to just use filler. Next Stage is to finish filling and sanding low and high areas and to trim up the gaps closed by the fiberglass stage. Then they will shoot it with a primer coat and start all over looking for high and low spots. At least that is the way I understand it. Kory may step in and slap me. I wish I had not put the interior in, probably will end up redoing it entirely.
Tremendous progress this week. Got her in the primer booth this afternoon. Should start shaping up fast now.
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Kind of a neat old Buick with a straight 8.
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So today the team at 121 Rod and Restoration finished the pre prep work and masked the car off for priming. I was very happy with the strengthening of the trunk and the window area on top of the doors.
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More Prep work
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So we got some shots of the primered car. Changes the entire look.
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