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what did you do with the rest of the car? There is one of those with that color for sale around here. I thought you bought it but the car is still listed so must be it's doppelgänger??

 

Different car, I have the 4 door 54 body and 2 door 53 body sitting and waiting for this giant shell game of shuffling and swapping I am about to do haha

 

Got this stalled out 50 Chevy truck project from my sister and brother in law. Has all the sheetmetal, my BIL dis***embled the bed, needs some rust repair, and sitting on S-10 ch***is. I picked up a 68 Olds 455 (Delta 88 version) that I plan to use in the truck instead of the common SBC or later LS engines.

 

Correct, the car for sale in Scio is a coupe and has been listed for $2500 for a while now. Seller states the motor is locked up...It certainly is tempting me to get it and try to unstick the motor.

 

Certainly not saved from the crusher or from being forgotten but I did resurrect these neat old magnesium American front runners.

They had been blasted before being listed for sale. I worked on matching them to my magnesium Halibrands.



As purchased.



I gently polished the lips. After working on just one, I compared the two.



Here are both wheels ready to darken.



I applied some chemicals to oxidize them.



After a few rounds and drying them completely, I applied Gibbs.



Comparison to the unmolested Halibrands.



Tires and tubes mounted.



And on the car.

It's a couple months later and I ***ume had I not worked on oxidizing them there'd be little difference from when I got them. It's just so dry here.

Here's the detailed process from a thread: