Priya's 79 chrome bumper conversion project
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Reading yours and Doorgunners comments made me think.
I purchased my 73 over six years ago, only driving it occasionally because I didn’t trust taking it too far from home.
I’ve been collecting parts and saving money for paint that long.
Time is flying by and right now it seems I don’t have much time to work on it.
I purchased my 73 over six years ago, only driving it occasionally because I didn’t trust taking it too far from home.
I’ve been collecting parts and saving money for paint that long.
Time is flying by and right now it seems I don’t have much time to work on it.
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Reading yours and Doorgunners comments made me think.
I purchased my 73 over six years ago, only driving it occasionally because I didn’t trust taking it too far from home.
I’ve been collecting parts and saving money for paint that long.
Time is flying by and right now it seems I don’t have much time to work on it.
I purchased my 73 over six years ago, only driving it occasionally because I didn’t trust taking it too far from home.
I’ve been collecting parts and saving money for paint that long.
Time is flying by and right now it seems I don’t have much time to work on it.
My philosophy is to do your best to always keep at, even if you go out to the garage, spend 15 minutes and come back in. If you keep working, even if it's slowly, it'll get done. There were a lot of times working on my Eagle where it was all I could do to get out to the garage (and some days not at all) and then I'd spend 5 minutes puttering around, get discouraged and come back inside. But it never went much more than a week or so at most without me working on it. I finished it in 2013, so about 5 years from start to finish.
If you want to get it done, think about some partial task you can complete and feel like you've accomplished something and do everything you can to just get started working on it. And then if you lose motivation and it sits two weeks, think only about finishing a small part of it, something that can be done in a month or so and again do everything you can to get re-started.
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They say admitting you have a problem is halfway to the cure. So you walk up to your car. Yep, that needs welded. Engine shot. Paint shot. Tires in 30 years old. Look at all the brake fluid. Running out. Boy does this thing need a lot of work. Hey, 50% restored!
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I'm thinking seriously about reworking a fiberglass 1980 front bumper for my 75 convertible. I've pretty much figured it out without severely modifying the car to get it to work. At any point easy to return to stock bumper.
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Yeah? Sounds like a fair bit of work to me. The front fenders where they meet the bumper cover are quite different between the 80 and 75, I wouldn't think it easy to return to stock after getting the 80 front bumper cover to fit.
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don is no longer making front and rear bumpers he stopped last year, he still has the molds just decided to stop, maybe health reasons maybe not? nice FG work though I have one of his on my '74
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