1968 Torino GT

[GregWeld]

BTW --- My daughter would be right out in the shop with me getting dirty and asking "what does that do"? Oh! "How does it work"? "Can we do something like this to my car"?

My son would go to his mother and ask her to pay for someone to modify his car.

[jarhead]

Originally Posted by GregWeld

In order to do anything "straight" you need a fence or some kind of guide. No way can you do something like this by hand and expect it to be perfectly straight.

Nice piece… and if you're like me - I'll do it until I get it right and learn a bunch of stuff along the way. Then the first buddy that stops by will say -- Hey dip squat! Why didn't you do it "X" way? And I'll scratch my head and wonder just why I didn't… :>)

Thanks, and I was looking at it thinking, yep I better build a damn fence while I was running it through, lol...

I almost didn't post it, but I knew you guys like pictures

Originally Posted by GregWeld

BTW --- My daughter would be right out in the shop with me getting dirty and asking "what does that do"? Oh! "How does it work"? "Can we do something like this to my car"?

My son would go to his mother and ask her to pay for someone to modify his car.

I have all girls, but only one of them like to come out to the garage. Unfortunately she got a job in town, and is working too many hours now. I don't see much of her except when I cant sleep and she is doing homework at zero dark thirty.

[jarhead]

Prototype 2 came out better but still needs tweaking.

[FETorino]

Originally Posted by wanman

Prototype 2 came out better but still needs tweaking.

Looking better now move that battery to the trunk where it belongs.

[MSTSFabbed]

Fences work great if you have a straight parallel outer edge to work from. So far I've found that's rarely the case (often cause I can't cut a straight line :/) The last floors I did, I used a well placed little piece of angle iron clamped to the part and rolled along it as a guide. Not perfect but I was very pleased with the end results.

Just presenting options! Looks good, I've enjoyed following along.

[jarhead]

Originally Posted by FETorino

Looking better now move that battery to the trunk where it belongs.

That is planned too, I am busier than a one legged man in a ass kicking contest just doing what I am doing

Originally Posted by MSTSFabbed

Fences work great if you have a straight parallel outer edge to work from. So far I've found that's rarely the case (often cause I can't cut a straight line :/) The last floors I did, I used a well placed little piece of angle iron clamped to the part and rolled along it as a guide. Not perfect but I was very pleased with the end results.

Just presenting options! Looks good, I've enjoyed following along.

I hear ya, I had to build a fence "designed and produced by "Rube Goldberg" just to make that piece.

I spent all morning modifying my cheap ass bead roller to make this one piece, and the went off and I remembered all the posts I read on the internet about buying a Mittler Brothers unit instead, the first time around.

Time IS money, lesson learned....

[EdwardsSS]

Just ran across this thread. Nice project. It brings back memories, as my first car was a '68 Torino GT, blue in color, with a 289 - 2bbl motor, and a four speed purchased in 1973. Apparently the original 302 had been blown. It was a good car, and got mid to high-20's for highway fuel mileage. I traded it in 1974 at Billion Motors in Sioux Falls, SD for a 1972 R-code Mustang Mach 1. Thanks for the thread.