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Old Sep 19, 2012 | 10:40 PM
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Default 1970 coup rebuild

One year of work on my restoration. My 70 coup that I started with.
The start of getting things ready to lift body off. Ready to lift the body off. Body up and off. The frame motor and transmission with the body gone.



frame cleaned up and powder coated and painted satin black.





Parts that have been stipped off of frame.


Frame getting ready to powder coat.

Parts that I have cleaned up and painted.




rreassembling the frame.





Trailing arms before and after.






Front and rear suspenion pretty much completed.
Motor before teardown.
A good thing I did not plan on. Four bolt mains and a forged crank.
Motor back with new pistons main and rod bearings cam and cam bearings and reground crank.

New head.
Heads and intake on engine block.
Well that is what I have gotten done in about a years time and really not that many hours. Still have a long way too go. No time table.




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