The thread is not lost!
As of last week he has started his new job at the parts store!
That was a surprise as they had hired another person that was available full time.
He turned out to be a turd and they are going to let his ass go soon.
Currently the car sits in the driveway with its whole front taken off.
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Sheetmetal is all in backyard.
All the suspension has been removed from the chassis and he started cleaning the grime and stuff from the rails.
But he stopped as we need to buy a portable sand blaster to get into the hard to reach areas that the wire wheels don't get too. The soda blaster we picked up is not powerful enough for that task.
As for the body, he is going to keep the patina on the outside of it.
Fixing the rust through where it needs to be done, it will be made solid but keep the paint as much as possible.
Recently we picked up another good hood for it, because he may want to run a tunnel ram some day and it was $25. That gentleman also had a passion for the hot rods.
He happened to be rebuilding a '55 at the time and enjoyed that Max is so into cars.
This guy had ordered USA made floor pans for his car and had them shipped up here from California and that cost him $650 total.
He had since decided to order the full floor pan for his car and asked if we might know somebody that could use the floor pan halves that he already had.
Us.
We will need them.
How much you want for them?
$300 was the answer.
Sold.
So junior has the floor pans he needs as the passenger side of the car is missing.
Now he will need rockers and some floor braces to finish it all.
When he gets those, he will send it off to have a buddy of mine do it all at one time.
Buddy spent time doing high end restoration work and works like a humming bird on energy drinks. He has done amazing things to cars that were so not worthy.
We have also picked up a rearend out of a buddies '70 Camaro.
Sadly, it is only the 8.2 and not the 8.5...
But it will be just fine for moderate power levels that will be run early on for this car.
It was a the best price of free...
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