2020 .. What are you doing today?

[kb426]

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If I was close, I'd be over to help. This has project creep lurking,

[idrivejunk]

Hey I may be creepy but I'm not lurking, I'm posting!


Oh, wait...  :oops:



I am afraid I might get awful sentimental sanding off my old flame job, John.  :cry:

But! If you'd like some freebie renderings I need a new practice subject. ~:)  I build excitement, haha. Being a Pontiac guy and all.

F1 man might have settled on a single scoop cup of vanilla ice cream type treatment. The last pic on the blog yesterday may have made him queasy.

[chimp koose]

I started cutting in and welding the louvered panels from my original hood sides onto the hood sides I made for the car . I am going to use a 3 pc hood with removeable sides so I can go full hood or without sides

[idrivejunk]

I started cutting in and welding the louvered panels from my original hood sides onto the hood sides I made for the car . I am going to use a 3 pc hood with removeable sides so I can go full hood or without sides

Sounds      

[WZ JUNK]

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If I was close, I'd be over to help. This has project creep lurking,

It has already started.  I may have to remove the engine/transmission together to get the transmission out.  I thought that I had removed the transmission once years ago but now I am not sure.  It is starting to look like everything was in place before I installed the cab.     I do not know what the idiot was thinking when he built this piece of junk.

[58 Yeoman]

HA! Glad I'm not the only one who can't remember if I did something or not.

[chimp koose]

Well I managed to get a twist in one hood side that will "pop" back to straight if I push it . I will have to beat and grind on this thing a bunch . I am thinking I may have to slice it from the back edge to the louvers and see if that will take the twist out . That is the side with warpage .

[WZ JUNK]

In order to remove the transmission from the WZ JUNK truck, I had to saw the crossmember in two near the right side.  Today I built a fixture to align the two halves.  I cut out an oval shaped flange and welded it in place to be able to bolt the two halves back together.  Now I can reinstall the transmission crossmember a piece at a time.  I think the reason I was unable to remove it as one unit is that I had installed it originally before the cab was on the chassis.  That, and other pieces, were put on the truck that made it difficult to remove.

I had just enough room to side slip the transmission out from under the truck.  It was a blessing that there was enough room.  It could have turned out just that much not enough very easily.  That is the way thing usually go for me.

[phat46]

Finshed this today, been an off  and on project for about two weeks. Acrylic paints on prepped wood panel. 27.5" high by 25.5" wide. Probably 10-12 hrs in it.

[kb426]

^^^^^
Nice!

[58 Yeoman]

WOW! Looks like you took a picture of that Caddy. That's really nice.

[Bruce Dorsi]

It's hard to believe that's not a photo!

GREAT job on the reflections!

Compliments to you, Joe!

[kb426]

I bought these several years ago. They are not the genuine versions. They had seen their better days. I striped the coating and checked for cracks. A couple of days ago, when cleaning out the shop, I decided to apply black wrinkle and bring them back to life. I sanded off the ribs this morning and will carefully find a storage place for them for time being.

[idrivejunk]

That painting is fantastic.  

The art that is the car ain't too shabby either.  

Nor is the impromptu valve cover re-vamp.

Here is my contribution. 50 Lincoln tail lights. Those are tough to argue against, look good, and require little mod.

Owner was "impressed" but I don't know by what... choices or images. :?

[kb426]

Matt, the taillight choice would be good. Is that the exhaust outlet in the fender?