Customs Her name is Cherry, cuz she ain't

I know i'm still pretty far from paint... But I have been thinking about what direction I want to go in. I'm thinking some version of a Black Cherry with a white interior.

3 more weeks and she gets my complete and undivided attention.

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Car is comming along good. I really dig the color on the right

 

Late to the party as usual, the car is looking great, thats a great body style, you dont see as many of those.
Oh and those white letters being tucked like that looks NASTY

Keep at it.

Godspeed
MrC.

 

And the prodigal son returns...

After some inspiration from Leebo! and many other builds I have finally gotten something accomplished on this car.

I graduated from college at 44 in December last year. My wife bought me a plasma cutter as my graduation gift. I had to rework some electricity in my garage as I only had one 220 plug and my compressor was on that circuit. I got that taken care of Saturday and knocked out some panhard brackets today. I really had a good time. That Plasma is bad ass. Notice the Nike tennis shoes.... bad idea. I got the hot foot and had to dance a little.




My sidekick had to perform the welding inspection. He was not happy when I locked him in the house while I was welding.

Lowrider Inspecting the Lowrider


now to take care of the upper shock mounts.

Thanks
Darryl

 

Got the rear shock mounts finished up this weekend. I discovered that I will need to weld my motor mounts in before I can fab the front shock mounts. In order to do that, I will need to finish rebuilding the 3 speed and assemble the motor to get them back in place.

 

Hey look an update. Frame is ready for blasting and paint. I am ready to drive her!


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Painted the frame, ran some brake lines, started installing the motor. Getting closer.



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Nice. I only got to see all six of your pictures....lol...or whatever the upgrade left. Sucks. Your work is kick ass, and for sure without pics it makes the reading faster. I hate that so many threads got affected by the changes. Oh well......diggin' the six cylinder, and your car is bad ass man. Keep it up. Life gets in the way, but you are the one close to the finish line. Kudos to you man. If they ever are really finished...........

 

Thanks. I did get pretty burned out for awhile and only did a few things here and there. I may have posted some of the pictures in my albums. I am back at it with a new attitude. I don't think I will fall off the face of the earth this time. I want to drive this car to Round Up in 2015.

 

Man I am so close to firing this thing off!! I forget that custom installations take more time than bolting on parts. So Im not upset that I missed my Monday evening cam break in. i still need to fab up a muffler, hook up my guages, alternator, fill her with earl & coolant, prime, install the dizzy, and fuel. I sat the hood on it just for my amusement. I shouldnt have done that... Now I feel ill. I might have to call in sick tomorrow..."cough"

She should come down another half inch in front once i rebuild the steering knuckle and remove the bandaid thing keeping it tight.




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Who does stuff like this??? They should be caned...

Not a proper repair even by crappy standards.

The whole floor brace is full of dirt, plastic filler, & fiberglass mat.


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I dont have a snow balls chance in hell of making it to Round Up again in this car. Maybe I can make Day of the Drags with her...


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Great work looks really cool

 

Thanks Nick. I received my shrinking disc in the mail late yesterday afternoon, so I should be able to dress that panel the rest of the way.

 

I need to work on my heat control more. This is much better than the first time... I guess I will get it all figured out by the time all the metal work is done. I welded this in with my new meco midget acetylene torch.


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