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Starting to restore this 58 Bonneville,it was a mess.[ATTACH]
The two 40s that were made into hardtops are finished.[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Does not have a rear end in it yet and still working on lowering the rear.
Rebuilding two 40 Fords made into hard tops back in the 60s[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Sand paper this time,sanded a radiator thin enough to fit.
I made a radiator fit.
Almost done need to find a radiator,AMT 65 Wildcat and took two years to find the missing parts.[ATTACH]
Working on this Willys,old race car put back on the street powered by a Plymouth flathead six[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I built one in the early 70s and who knows what happened to it,would loved to gotten the chassis but most likely out of production at that time.
I never got to doing it.
I know they got bought out but can not get on their website now so something is up.
Yesterday I tried to get on their site to see about ordering some parts but all I got are you have no permission so are they a casuality of the times.
A Restoration on the body but updated drivetrain.
Diamond T chassis and will get some pics,the whole wood structure has been replaced.
This truck is being restored at where I work.
Mine came from a friends old girlfriends youngest kid,they were on a vacation and came by a tractor junkyard and that kid said that must be where...
I remember a big block Mopar swap in a 66ish El Camino in a popular magazine back in the late 70s
Looks like I will need to get a trans pressure gauge.
Going to check the vacumn at the modulator,might hook up a gauge and take it for a drive.
If all I done was highway driving it would be no problem but had been thinking it was vacumn related and have it hooked to where it gets vacumn...
I have a C-4 that shifts as it should when cold but when it reaches operational temperature the shift points are a little delayed,when cold it...
Another build with mostly 60s parts [ATTACH]
Took some leftover coupe and sedan parts to build a 40 standard coupe,used 95 percent 60s parts to do this quickie build.[ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Here are the lights,the one on the right is the reproduction and the one on the left has a lense for the license light unlike the original that...
After further investigation the reproduction pass side light has no room for a tail light bulb,for those who do not know the license plate...
The reproduction original style pass light came in the mail today so time to get to work,if I could only have found that company I talked to years...
I have found everything I will need to brighten up those lights.
I do not like the idea of those bulbs but the lights can be barely seen during the day so I need to see if I can improve it a bit. I am going to...
I finally got to see this car at SEMA last year.
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