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Hey everybody my name is Isaac and i am 25 years old and live in Miami Florida. I just started working on a 1946 Fleetmaster coupe. The car needs a full restoration. I recently changed the valve cover, oil pan, push rod gaskets and replaced the water and fuel pump. I have only had the car for two months and am first planning to work on all the rust and spray some nice flat black (do you guys usually prime it black or is it a flat single stage paint??). I am working on doing the brakes then the electrical and throw some smoothies with fat white walls.

Welcome To CHR Isaac, sounds like a nice project you have going there. Post us some pics and keep us updated!!!

Isaac welcome to CHR. Your 47 sounds like a nice project.Are you going to keep it stock or hot rod it?

(do you guys usually prime it black or is it a flat single stage paint??)


Welcome. Another Florida boy to the flock. Sounds like a great start, and 6 bangers are back in style. Tons of Fenton, etc. multi carb manifolds starting to show up on Ebay and the swap meets, and nothing sounds like a 6 through split exhaust manifolds.

Don't just prime, as primer will not stop water from getting to the metal, and rusting it. Paint it with either flattened enamel, or you can now buy pre-flattened paint in lots of colors. Shoot it in light coats, or it will still shine.

See you at Turkey Run in Daytona next November ????


Don

Issac sounds like you found an original. Have fun
Charlie

-Here are some pics....i have putting some time into the engine it was terrible and leaking oil and gas everywhere. In the bottom is a pic of a grille i just bought

Looking good! Keep going on it!! That grille is in really nice shape.

Welcome aboard, Issac. Your project looks good. You are so lucky to live in Florida and find cars with very little rust. I live in the Midwest- lots of rust, but still lots of fun. You canfix those old six bangers up really good, try looking for Clifford Research in CA. on the net. They have been doing six bangers for years. Flattened enamel is the way to go - easy to touch up as you do body work.

Good Luck!! keep us posted

looks good. u should start looking for a back up engine tho, another 216, or a couple if you go that route or get a '53 or later 235, there full preassure oiling. if ya run that babbit 216 very hard, it will blow up on ya. you could rebuild the 216 using rods cut for machined bearings but u would still have a low preassure dipper engine, ( oiling system is very bad, low preassure, only makes 15 psi @ idle 30 psi max, and uses dippers on the bottoms of the rods for extra oiling ). it will be a great running engine if u take it easy.

I totally dig what you did with the engine, looks real sharp man.

REAL sharp.

You are so lucky to live in Florida and find cars with very little rust. I live in the Midwest- lots of rust, but still lots of fun


You would be surprised to find out this is exactly backwards. Our Florida cars are pretty rusty, and hard to find. The salt air on the ocean and gulf sides takes its toll, and even inland, we get so much rain and humidity, the cars are pretty rusty. Plus, Florida is a pretty young state as far as being populated, so it isn't like the west, where people moved there in the early part of the century and took cars with them.

You live in the place where all of the good stuff is. Everytime I see some deal on Ebay, it is either in the midwest, or someplace like Oregon or Washington State. My dream is to travel those states when I retire, with a car hauler, and pick up some of these cars.

We have had to travel to Georgia to get my Son's '29 and my '39, and we are looking at another '29 in Georgia right now. The cars there are pretty good.

I thought the same thing when we moved to Florida, about the rust-free cars, but got a real wake up call after we were here. Plus, there aren't barns and stuff here where old cars are hiding.


Don

Yeah youre not kidding about the rust, you can watch a car rust here

The car has rust and especially in the passenger quater panel. It is rusted pretty bad.

Welcome Issacm66