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Old Nov 25, 2012 | 06:10 PM
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6 years later, shes a solid car again.....zero rust
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time to put it onto a rotisserie
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105 degrees outside, i sandblasted my belly, took 5 days, a few hours every night after werk
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so much werk
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blocked, smoothed, and sealed
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Old Nov 25, 2012 | 06:23 PM
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firewall is getting some treatment also, its not finished in these pics, just sealed
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few more of the firewall
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machined some custom acorn style nuts for my lower control arms
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WOW that is some project and you are one hell of a craftsman, cant wait to see it done.
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Nice job! 61 is my fav of the 58-64 generation. What is the plan for the chassis?
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Old Nov 26, 2012 | 07:58 AM
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Nice job! 61 is my fav of the 58-64 generation. What is the plan for the chassis?
I'll have those pics up soon. I'm completely boxing it in with 1/8" steel, front to back and all 4 sides. I started out with a Canadian frame which is stronger then the American frames. I have tubular front control arms, uppers and lowers. They need some werk thou. I'm not really a "bolt on" kinda guy. I always have to modify something. I will be doing a 80s caprice spindle swap for the disc brake conversion. Also will be installing a rack and pinion thanks to "E RODZ" for the help on that. I have a ford 9" rear end, big bearing, 31 spline. which I shortened myself. I won't be using the pan hard bar or the single banana bar. I'm re werking the whole rear suspension.
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Got my convertible rack back from chrome. I have no clue how to put it back together.

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Picked up a cool little accesory a few weeks ago. NOS still in the OG box
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I have an extra SOLID door if anyone needs it. $300 shipped
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your build is looking good man cant wait to see more progress pics
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I'm upgrading my brakes. Doing a spindle swap from an early caprice. So I need to modify the lower control arms for the ball joint. So I machine up some sleeves, now I need to cut the control arm and weld this in

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Here's some of the frame, it's fully boxed in. 1/8" steel. All 4 sides. Front to back. I've done a few frame mods to smooth some lines out. Here's the rear body mounts

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I chopped out that ugly rear banana bar mount thingy. Gonna stuff a four link ford 9" somehow. Stay tuned for that one.

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