Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

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Like the valve covers and the the air cleaner too. It should look right at home in the car. Definately will have an old timey feel.

Don that color is great . That should shake hands sitting in the frame . That color gave it a Hello look . Great job.

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.