Coupe home from body shop

I got my coupe home from the body shop today, doors and a few other items will be done later. REALLY happy with the workmanship.
Before and after pictures.

 

awesome!

 

Tom he sure did a great job . The T looks great and has a real good stance sitting on those tires .

 

It sure does look

COLD ... in your photos

The T looks cool too ... in a good way

 

It's more than cold now, it covered with ice, and salt from the 200 mile trip back home last night.

I'm going with a little larger tires in the back, not quite sure on the front yet.

The bodywork was a barter, and I couldn't be happier with it.

I'll start working on putting it together in the Spring, I'm getting out of this COLD weather and heading for Florida tomorrow.

 

Looks Great!!!!

 

Coupe looks great and looks like it came a long way, NIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE!!!

 

The coupe looks great....what did you trade for the work....?

 

hey Tom , that's looking great. stop in when you get a chance

 

Looking very good. Glad to see you getting somewhere on it. I believe I saw it n the state of your first pic. Looks alot better.

 

Nice to see another T coupe on its way.
Post more pic's next spring.

 

hurry up and get it cleaned back up...but being from the snow belt, you know this..hahahaha Thankfully its still green here. haha

 

I traded a pretty nice rust free 82 Mercury Capri RS with straight sheetmetal and paid for all the materials. He was to do all the rust repair, bodywork and put it in primer. I also agreed to pay him for any extras I wanted done, like he shortened the driveshaft and put in several body mounts and braces where needed. He also agreed to take lots of pictures, which he did.

He's a Hot Rod builder from way back and has giving me lots of tips for the completion of the coupe. He's kinda attached to it now and said he would like me to bring it back after I get it up and running so he could put paint on it. I kinda want to paint it myself even though I haven't painted a car for over 20 years.

I put the ch***is together myself with help from my brother-in-law who did the critical welding. 36-3window helped with lots of good info and his trusty torch.

You guys here and guys at Club Hot Rod have been have been sooooo helpful with this build. I built a 34 Ford Fordoor in '62, rebuilt it in '75 and built a 36 Ford Tudor back in '65. Them two cars were nothing compared to the work that's gone into the coupe so far.

Still lots of work to be done and I'll just keep asking questions. Thanks guys!!!!!

 

The T looks awesome,.... I have a picture of one from the 60's that yours reminds me of, If I can find it, I will post it or pm it to you,.....

This picture looks COLD as well

 

Looks great! What does it cost to get that much body work done these days in that part of the world?