Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

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Thanks guys. It's a little different than it photographs, more goldish, but I think it is going to be ok. I plan to do the body and frame in the same color, except I will do the body in base coat/clear coat so that I can buff out any boo boos. It is a metalic, so single stage won't buff out right. On the frame it won't matter as much, so single stage will be ok.

Now it's time to start glassing the interior wood in, and I think I'll start that this week.


Don

Don
Realy glade your getting back into the construction of your car again . It is informative and interesting. Thanks for the added effort of posting your step by step progress, and putting up with the (minor ) harrasment alone the way.

Charlie: Thanks. Looking back on this thread, it has covered every subject from the weather to cats, with some occasional car building thrown in. But it has been fun to do, and has kept me moving (well, at most times anyway) and has forced me to do things pretty much correctly, because I know a lot of experts are out there critiquing me.

I would encourage anyone who is doing similar stuff on their car to do the same thing, as it becomes a learning experience for the people watching as well as the person doing the build. ( Like I learned to NEVER build my own shifter again )

Everyone who has posted has been the best as far as support and assistance, and I thank all of you for doing that.


Don

Don you don't know you can't do it till you try. Its not that you couldn't build a shifter but its kind of like reinventing the wheel
I remember back when I was in H.S. had a 50 olds with lasale trans couldn't afford floor shifter yet but HAD TO DRIVE. I got two steel rods beat them flat on one end drilled holes and filed till I could use them for shifters. one was 1 &R the other was 2&3 No speed shifting but I was on the road.

haven't felt like posting for a while, but wanted to say your motor looks great. the only thing i used to do diff. is paint the heads, block and pan before i bolted them together, so when you did bolt it to gather you could see the new gaskets. in other words i didn't paint over the gaskets. ever body has he's own way. i've pulled a motor back out of a car, because the paint got to looking a little bad and dissemble the motor, painted each peace, bought new gaskets, and put the motor back together and put it back in the veh. and didn't do anything else to it.

Hey Mike, glad to see you mustered up the energy to say hi. We've been worried about you, but didn't want to push you into posting until you felt better. Hope this is just the beginning for you, lots of your friends miss you on here, me included.

I like your method of doing engine painting. Probably makes it look pretty trick. Thanks for the nice words about mine.

Take care of yourself Mike, we all care about you.


Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Hey Mike, glad to see you mustered up the energy to say hi. We've been worried about you, but didn't want to push you into posting until you felt better. Hope this is just the beginning for you, lots of your friends miss you on here, me included.

I like your method of doing engine painting. Probably makes it look pretty trick. Thanks for the nice words about mine.

Take care of yourself Mike, we all care about you.


Don

thanks don, i'm typing with my right hand, which is hard for me to do anyway, and i just posted about a 1/2 page on another post, and it got lost some where. shot my ward on nothing. i just got back out of the hospital again friday, had to put me on the breathing machine again. i'm gonna learn how to live without breathing one of these days. i'll be back one of these days.

D***. Sorry to hear that. Hope everything works out ok. Don't stress yourself too much by trying to type one handed and all. Just take it easy.

Don

Looking good don, cant wait to see it all together, maybe soon i can get down there for the weekend, and help out a little, i dont think its more than 4 hours away

There's always a cold one in the fridge for you John.


Don

Hello Mike if your still lurking take it easy get better. Yes nice color choice Don. I like it

Thanks Charlie, people are going to either love it or hate it, but pictures always distort the true color, and it is really more gold/copper than orange. I think it will be fine.

Hey, there is a thread get well card going for Mike, why don't you put your thoughts there for him, in case you missed that.

See ya Charlie,

Don

I talked to Mike on the phone this past week. I posted in my galery some pictures of my ford interior. Car is nearing completion have a look

Yes is IS nearing completion. Looks great. What are those seats out of ? They fit perfectly, and your wife did a pro job on the panels and all.

You aren't gonna mind long trips in that interior, must be very comfortable.

Don

I think they are 89 linclon