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Post by sportf on Apr 14, 2014 22:41:04 GMT
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Post by sportf on Apr 14, 2014 22:46:14 GMT
The interior paint only had to be done once, unlike the outside.
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Post by victorynss on Apr 16, 2014 3:29:02 GMT
Looking good! Chris
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Post by sportf on Nov 22, 2014 14:26:44 GMT
Here is a couple more pics of when I got the car. This is the garage in Victorville CA where the car sat for 15 years. notice the skid marks as I pulled it out. I could loosen the front brakes but couldn't get at the back while in the shop. Then the adjusters were stuck as well. So I thought when the tires dragged on the asphalt they would break loose. Nope. Thank goodness someone put in '65 rear and I got the drums off out in the street. Everything the guy had worked on had some trouble.
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Post by sportf on Nov 22, 2014 14:34:47 GMT
Here is the car just as I got it to the BAE shop in San Diego in June of 2012, sunday afternoon, on my trusty tow bar. Towed at 70-75 all the way back. It went on a transport truck back to Minnesota, on the top rack over the truck cab (more on that in a moment).
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Post by sportf on Nov 22, 2014 14:40:03 GMT
I got the car running, then with new rear drums and new wheel cylinders we had the car ready for transport. When the car gets to my house the car has no brakes and the driver won't take it off the truck duh!!!! So I get a call from my son (I was still in San Diego) and I tell him to dump some brake fluid in the master cylinder. Now this in itself is not easy as its OVER the truck cab, a second story car. Well, that doesn't work, its all on the floor inside the car. So I have him stick the emergency brake on.....and away he comes! I guess it got a little fast as it came off the truck! Well, then he just eased it into the driveway. I couldn't tow it home on the bar as I had the red Dodge out there and was racing that at Barona every week they were open.
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Post by sportf on Nov 22, 2014 15:13:50 GMT
Here is my '62 Dodge that I had towed from home, an unfinished primered race car. Here it is finished and going racing some Sunday morning leaving from the BAE shop.
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Post by sportf on Nov 22, 2014 15:21:16 GMT
This car went back to Minnesota on the tow bar as well. I got just under 14 mpg towing this both ways. If I had room for it, I wouldn't have sold it. So, I am building another one. That is the 54 freeway on top of that berm, and the bridge is Broadway-main street just as you leave National City and go into Chula Vista.
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Post by sportf on Nov 25, 2014 22:30:15 GMT
here is a yard we went to spring of 2013
Well, I don't know how to resize photos, so that isn't going to work.
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Post by sportf on Mar 20, 2015 23:17:49 GMT
Well, this isn't 63 plymouth progress, but its 62 Dodge progress. I painted the roof the other day, and with the white primer, the car looks like a bobber! Now, if you have ever done body work of any kind, take a look at those quarter panels. They have more curves and contours than anything you can imagine! Can you imagine the guys making the stamping dies for these cars, wow. I bet there was quite a study done on whether it could even be done!
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Post by sportf on Mar 20, 2015 23:20:58 GMT
I hope to put paint on the quarters next week, and then paint the inside of the trunk, and finally the bottom side after that. I had the car water/sandblasted and it came out nice, but boy did it take a long time getting the sand out!
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Post by sportf on Mar 20, 2015 23:30:02 GMT
I have some other pics but they are too big and once in this computer, I don't know how to re-size. So, here is another one of the 63 from last fall. Back to the actual subject topic, eh?
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Post by sportf on Apr 3, 2015 0:29:55 GMT
Here is my '62 Dodge mostly red. Hey, that ceiling fan is the fan I "won" from Wally's lighting store for loosing to him first round in Eddyville!
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Post by sportf on Apr 3, 2015 0:31:49 GMT
Doors are on
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Post by sportf on Apr 3, 2015 0:35:35 GMT
I got most of the front and rear suspension assembled today. This is the part the car building shows give you, the easy stuff. They don't show all the time sandblasting and painting, then storing the stuff without nicking it all up.
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