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Old 08-16-2023, 12:55 PM
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It's been a while. I got my son's 70 Supreme back here in Virginia Beach since the Army re-stationed him from Missouri to Florida and he won't have a garage for the next few years.

It's been fun driving and working on it but I miss the 442 pretty bad if I'm being honest. It's in paint and body jail in MD but it is making slow progress. The fiberglass decklid had lots of cleaning up and I'm having a brake light put into the underside of the wing. The decklid filler panel was replaced and the biggest project was removing the passenger side quarter panel and replacing with an NOS one I bought years ago. The hood vents are in on the ram air hood and I'm really happy with how they turned out. Will customize the white hood stripes around the vents but still try to keep the stripes as stock looking as possible. I was really worried about the passenger side door since it had a massive crack in the paint but after further inspection the door skin is good and won't need to be replaced. Hoping to have the car fully painted by this time next year but we'll see how that goes. Lots of custom projects still to go including lightening the doors (cutting out beams), modifying the front fenders and inner fender wells for the 315 front tires and the front splitter. Here are some pics:










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