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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 02:30 PM
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Just sent my wife to get a sheet of plywood and some casters figured id post some before pics of my car,should have my motor back from machine shop end of the week and away i go wish me luck lol









Been planning this out since i got i know i am forgetting a few details but have most the major things i want to do figured out here hoping my bank account dosnt empty out befor i finish
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Just wondering why you are doing a frame-off. Rust?
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Old Sep 20, 2005 | 09:50 PM
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Havnt' noticed anything unusal as far as rust all surface so far just about got the frame stripped down it goes for sand blasting and powder coating on monday



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Old Sep 20, 2005 | 09:56 PM
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Moving right along. I like seeing all of these big projects starting again. It always looks like fun to me. One of these days I would like to take mine off the frame and give it a thorough going through. Thanks for taking the time to post the pics.
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Looks great! I'll be pulling the body off this weekend myself.
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Old Sep 21, 2005 | 08:45 AM
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I just pulled mine off last weekend and I prepped the chasis for painting all week. When I get home from work today I'm going to start painting it with POR-15.

You're car doesn't look that bad as far as rust is concerned from the pictures. It should be a fairly easy project (all things considered).
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Old Sep 21, 2005 | 10:53 AM
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Looks good,
I wish that I had that much room.

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well after a bunch of delays such as company
sandblasting and powder coating telling me 5 days
then taking a month i started to put it back together






thanks to all with the great information to make this
possible for me to do mostly by myself
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Looking darn good. Got any bigger pics to go along with the thumbnails?
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Looking darn good. Got any bigger pics to go along with the thumbnails?
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that better but dont tell the wife her kitchen clothes are slowly all making their way too the garage lol
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I am sooo jealous. Looks spectacular.
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Thanks for resizing. One thing wrong with the pics, your garage is way too neat.
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Any more progress,im pulling my motor this week,do you still need that alternator,if not no problem,i just went back and checked my messages and saw yours on there.
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excellent work, looks great!
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looks good and nice job!!!
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wow looks like new! wish i had the place to do that to mine

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I love the attention to detail!
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Any more progress,im pulling my motor this week,do you still need that alternator,if not no problem,i just went back and checked my messages and saw yours on there.
bit more progress few more parts should be here early next week then i can finish putting the front end back together and go pick up my new motor and drop it on also hopefully before the new year its a rolling chassis again and i can get started on the body and interior as for the alternatior i grabbed one pat but thank you
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