Thread: FFR 33 Ford Hot Rod

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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.

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.