59 Catalina

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There has been a slight change of plans.

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Er... :?  If you mean setting up for tubs, I just figured it was a safe assumption that narrowing will be required.

This morning I asked if it would be alright to get the guy who tore the car down to zip together the front clip so we could confirm fore/aft body placement. Suddenly here it came! I am glad of it but could have waited. It happened that I asked at the right time I reckon. Knocked a couple hours off my doings today messing around with that. Got one more small piece to make then weld these up to have the whole floor frame in, with mounts. Another pair over the axle is my thought, and I am looking forward to focusing on the axle hump area flooring next.

Poor lighting today.

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For putting up with my crap, here are some bonus other shots from around the workplace.  General car guy eye fodder.

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I'd have your painter show me a few things but I'm pretty sure he would say: "you can't see very well, can you?"

[idrivejunk]

Painting is hard. About every painter I ever met wears glasses but none while in the booth. I am convinced this is all the result of random blindfolded flailing of arms with spray gun in hand. Our man is just an outstanding buffer.

That color on the Bronco is Envy Green, some kinda heavy pearl designer color. But being such a big dirt-laden, crazily masked 4x4... well, Mr Sandman assisted in the booth. Some of the nibs could draw blood so you got the uh... wide angle shot. If more folks could afford to have us paint these wicked pearl colors on their vehicle exteriors with panels hung, they would get better panel-to-panel color consistency but strange as it may seem... nobody seems to care. To pay that. So most are shot apart like this one, and first daylight on it assembled is a finger-crosser. Paintar consistently does a wonderful job regardless of that fact.

Theres the obligatory wordy IDJ reply, thanks for visiting and please come again.

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Heres the latest pic, with one small piece left to go on the drivers side. Other one is done but did not get a pic. Almost ready to lift it off the frame now, to weld and drill underneath stuff then drop it back down. As you can see, its dark and scary in there.

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Today I finished that area then cut out the middle two stamped vertical package tray braces along with the tube link between them. Then I put a bend in a sheet of 16 gauge hot rolled steel for a blank (at this rough-in stage) bulkhead and used the castaway aftermarket front pans to begin filling in the area under the back seat. Also spent a couple hours on the Mustang today.

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[chris spokes]

nice work there Matt    

[idrivejunk]

nice work there Matt    

Thanks a lot sir, I am pleased with how its coming along now. Today was my Friday but I have the pieces on either side of that bed floor patch panel ready to install.

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Lets play make believe and imagine the car done as rendered. Skip ahead a few pages...

Which looks better, molding or no molding :?:

[Rochie]

MOLDING!!!!!

[GPster]

With all that chrome around the window openings the lower part of the body is too much uninterrupted color without the molding. I'd say they need to keep it. GPster