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Tuesday, June 20, 2006
I won't bore you too much with details, so I'm posting a bunch of pictures with brief captions. I still haven't gotten my chrome back from AIH in Dubuque Iowa, they've had it for about 20 weeks and it should have been done 6 weeks ago. They've told me "It'll be done by Friday!" every week for the past 5 weeks. Oh well, in the mentime I did some work on one of my other cars and got some needed chores around the house done. This restoration should be done by mid July IF my chrome is done by Friday. ;-) |
 Making it straight |
 Making it straight |
 Making it straight |
Making it straight |
 Making it straight |
 Primer |
 AFS Sanders from Eastwood |
 Primer |
 Camo Paint |
 Tbird Blind for Duck hunting |
 Checking the tonneau too |
 Nice job Tom! |
 Black is Beautiful! |
 Straight 'n Shiny |
 Trays too |
 Yep, I did both sides |
 Smooth 'n shiny tonneau |
 My favorite word! |
 Inspirational reflection |
Color Sandingthe Hood |
 Sanded & Buffed |
 Tool Bench reflection off hood |
 Oh la la! Nice rear end! |
 Restored Stainless trim |
 Brackets and hinges and springs, oh my! |
 My flipping lid parts |
 Starting and stopping power |
 Door latches |
 Folding Top Frame parts |
 More top frame parts |
 Still more Top Frame and other parts |
 Krudy heater core fitting |
 Valve removed |
 Remove old Gasket |
 Make new gasket 3/16" rubber |
 Ready for another 44 years |
 WHERE'S THE BUMPER? |
 This is what a Cruise-o-matic looks like when you dump it on the table |
 Clutches |
 Clutches |
 Center Support |
 Pinion Carrier |
 Valve body before cleaning |
 Valve body apart |
 Valve body rebuilt |
 Front Clutch |
 Tail & Case Reconditioned |
 It all fit back inside |
 Front Seat frames |
 Family Room/Parts Room |
 Hood & Deck relaxing |
 Making firewall insulation |
 New Insulation in place |
 3M Strip Caulk used throughout car |
 Heater box back in place |
 New ball joints |
 New brake lines |
 Completely rebuilt brakes |
 I HATE coil springs! |
 New gas tank |
 Rebuilt back brakes too |
 Inner fenders - Cowl lacing replaces side rubber on back inner fender perfectly |
 Ready for wheels |
 Clear the runway, this bird is landing! |
 Going down |
 Touchdown |
 Fresh air at last |
 Important numbers |
 Exhaust Manifold numbers |
 Exhaust Manifold numbers |
 Power house |
 Engine/Tranny |
 Ready to send home |
 Kickdown return spring |
 Throttle return spring |
 Vacuumn "T" at back of intake |
 Left side of carbs |
 Going together |
 Flip lid parts |
 Pump & Solonoids |
 Choke chimney |
 Kewl! |
 I can't wait to fire it up |
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 Visors etc |
 Dash Ends etc |
 Tonneau |
 Interior parts |
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