Well... Once again lagging on the updates but we have been making some serious progress. I'll be making quite a few posts to get up to speed. This post reflects the underside. Fuel tank, fuel and brake lines, sub frame connectors, and exhaust are all done.
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So this car was an all original paint car. The plan was to to just leave it as is. Although not a pretty patina... That was the plan. Well... My buddy Jim, aka Painter, said... Come on... Let's just do a quick scuff and shoot. Make it look a little nicer. So James ended up scuffing the whole car with 220. Joey, little bro, even got in the mix working on the hood for us. We took it to Jim's and the plan was to toss a few coats of filler primer on it, quick block and be done. We'll... That escalated quickly. Turns out the paint was dead and was flaking off. So Jim stripped the entire car. We knew we had a couple rust spots that needed to be addressed. Aside from that though that car was extremely clean. When we gutted the inside we found a Lowenbrau beer cap under the drivers seat. This car had been sitting since 1983. Wonder how long that had been there? James was going to throw it away. I plan on cleaning it up and leaving it in the glove box. Keep that memory alive.
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Color time!! James wasn't feeling the original butternut yellow. I told him any color as long as it was an original 68 color. So it was going LeMans Blue. Then literally a week before it was going to get sprayed he saw this color. He wanted it to stand out from the rest... So here we are. Very pleased with the color choice. Jim mocked up the front end because we were going to go with a bumble bee stripe, but then opted not to.
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The day James saw it for the first time. It was the best feeling just sitting back and watching him take it in...
Made our own washers for the trunk and strikers. Used stringer washers from a boat and counter sunk stainless bolts and polished them for the trunk and .polished the original strikers and used a stringer washer. Total investment less than $10.
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