Sweet, Im floored !! sorry, that was my bad joke of the day, shhh glad thats over. Looks real nice, the trans tunnel turned out great too. Godspeed MrC.
The good news is ill be home from school in a week and can start working on the car on a daily basis again!
Originally I was planning on doing a mustangII front end with tubular control arms and bags in front and a 10 bolt and 4 link in back. However due to not having 3k+ to drop on that setup anytime soon Im thinking of doing a 6" slam specialties bag set up on the stock front end, and still doing the gambino notch/4 link. Im gonna get the body done minus the chop and cut up the parts car and build that frame. It will allow me to keep the 2 door movable and let me sand blast the other frame and make it nice.
Just found this thread, what a nice project, the floors look great, look fiorward to seeing more progress. Bob
Its been a while but I got some work done on the car tonight, I recoated the underside of the hood and put it back on the car. I have to figure out how to get the hood springs back on without killing myself. I dont have any pictures but I scraped off the innerfender and started cleaning them up. Ill get pictures of them soon, after im done. and the motor, all dusty
There was a thread on here recently with a simple tool to make to install your hinges simply. Search 54 chevy hood spring install there are some good videos. The tool rod they are using is 14 inches long with a hole drilled in one end and a notch cut in the other.
came home for the weekend and finally got back to working on the car. spent the morning tearing apart the front clip, it doesn't appear to have every been apart or been wrecked. with the parts off I was able to get a good look at just what I was up against. The fenders looked fairly solid while on the car, however once they were off they had quite a bit of rust. The front of the fender where the gravel pan met the grille was almost completely rotted. In addition the back and top of the one fender was full of holes. After sandblasting I dont think there would be much left. The gavel/stone guard seems to be pretty nice with only 1 spot that will need to be repaired. I decided to check the fenders off the parts car, and just as I figured they were much more solid. They have an antenna hole that will need to be welded up and a couple minor dents, however the underside was pretty much intact and was protected well by the rubberized undecoating. I will still have to patch the bottom by the rocker tho.
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