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unburt


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It takes time ,lots of time but you are doing a nice job. Body work is all about patience and yup ask people who know.
Keep the progress reports coming everyone loves a restoration story.
love that body style.worship.gif



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Great work biggrin 

 I envy anyone, who has the patience, to do that...     I guess I did 40 years ago, but not now  winkwink   

very nice work  handshake.gif

you should be very proud



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Lookin good Rog!

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made some progress this week.....

now the blocking begins...

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Very nice !!!



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lookin good rog its always nice when they get to a 1 color stage

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Looking great! You couldn't resist putting some bling on it already! smile



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'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.

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Baby steps.. repaired some wonderful 70's back yard body work...  actually,,, it probably survived for 5 years before cracking out .... galvinized tim, with some sort of lino piece riveted in .. then plastered the filler over.

pulled the front clip off.  It's the easiest way to rempove  the louvers ... how many cars have you seen with that clean of steel ...NICE !!!

The 67 GTO hood had a huge teardrop hoodscoop  riveted in place ..

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A 66 Parisenne gave up some of it's hood for the repair..correct gauge metal and FREE !!!!

the template was not  as cheap....

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I believe in using quality products.... and was the more expensive 20 version...yes,  we have 20's here..



-- Edited by rabbit64cs on Sunday 12th of May 2013 06:50:49 AM

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Like you said "baby steps", but it's looking better all the time.

Was your template the expensive 24 type or the least expensive 6 type?biggrin



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got the hood squared up... and the back window installed , firewall washed and painted....

doesn't look like progress ...but the stuff that needs doin !



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at least youre making pogress im back at work so rain days are my only free time, tough to weld in the rain.



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WOW, that is fantastic work! Looking great!

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ceramic coated the headers yesterday,

prepped the heater box for reinstall (after I soldered the leak and tested it )



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a nice lemonwood yellow would look good

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I like the Lemonwood... wife veto's it though...  hope to finish the body over the next 2 weeks and send it off for paint!

I'm on holidays for the next 3 weeks.. and only have a honeydo list that is 3 years long...should be no problem !!

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Started installing the heater box and assembly...OCD kicked in...ended up removing  the gauge cluster and dash pad...

 

ill get there some day...lol

 

 

 



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Nice build ,looks great. Great job.



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some progress.. lines are looking good,,, 

here is the fit comparison with a jobber insert on an original hood.... no interchange here...  have to keep jobber with jobber ....and original with original..

heater box is installed, repaired the bottom fender bolts, both were borken and seized..zipped cut out the captive nut, drill and tap... re weld ...and bob's your uncle... ( if it only it happened that fast ! )

since I was installing the heater box, the dash controls had to be fixed... might as well take the whole dash out .. I have one in better shape with a dash tach anyways...

 

I've realized I am really good at taking things apart !!!

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hehe well done rog headin back to estevan today....

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enjoy the drive,, should be nice weather here by the time you hit the praries..rained ALL weekend !



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had a great week at home sunny for the car show yesterday seen rick beatin on his 64 lemans lotsa great cars at the qualicum show saw a cheetah id never seen b4 gota catch the plane now! fly comox/calgary/regina,drive 2 hours to estevan,another month to go then summer off!

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Wow nice work and a great job, i cant wait to see it painted ,its going to look beautiful.



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baby steps....... once summer hits ,, there is just too much to do around here.  AND I have OCD

clutch assembly re build

repaint dash cluster and detail

paint firewall and started detailing

repaired the bottom fender bolts , they were broke off, cut remove..drill tap, build em up , weld and grind ..then paint....yeeesh....

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