Jimbo1367

You're a jack of all trades. But we all ready knew that. LOL

ryeguy2006a

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Such a cool wagon! And x2 on the retro engine re-work. Any chance you would start selling those valley covers?

showdog75

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That is gonna be so sweet looking. I love the paint like that. I wouldn't take a $10k paint job over that.

79LS1FOX

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Gotta love that old timey acrylic lacquer, lets see how these new fangled paints and clears look in 58 years. It does look good buffed up though.

lilpanther

Your builds never cease to impress me. The paint look's great shined up.

kwhizz

Great Story Eric............That's why I haven't gone back there with a car for 15 years.....Too much Trouble.......LOL

Ken

ls1nova71

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Well at least I try to be! LOL

Sorry, but I'm not going to be making any of those. I had to farm out the welding on it, so it's not like I could do them myself.

Thanks, I think it's looking pretty nice.

Yeah no kidding! I thought it would polish up some, but to be honest I didn't think it would look as nice as it does. No way any new clear coat paint job will last this long, which is why I cringe every time I see someone clear over old paint to "protect" it....

Thanks!

You should have warned me! LOL


So I'm still polishing this thing. It's taking forever and I feel like I've been hit by a bus at the end of the day..... But this is the driver's side. Not the best pics, but you get the idea I hope.





Kind of hated to lose the Department of Agriculture lettering on the doors, but you can still see a bit of it on the driver's side.





Need to find the guy that did this and give him a swift kick somewhere.... After polishing it, it really makes it that much more of a travesty!!





Right quarter CLR'd and ready for buffing. Just doing this brought back a lot of color, it's definitely greener now. Also you can see I ground off the studs from the dent pull debacle....





Right quarter panel polished. Kind of hard to tell in these pics, but this side turned out better than the other side. I'm thinking if I can get some lacquer paint in Aspen green, I can blend the screwed up area, that's how well it buffed out. I think there's a place on ebay that sells the paint, just have to make sure the color is right on.

ls1nova71

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I'd like to take this time and tell Photobucket to kiss the fattest part of my ***!!!! They have apparently decided that you can no longer use them to host pics on forums without paying $400 a year... So they have taken down every picture I have ever posted using them on all of my threads.... Total B.S.

mytmouz

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I can see the last ones you have posted as of right now, glad I got to check them out...

Advanced Design

I've been quietly tagging along lately and just want to rave about your work, ideas and how the wagon is coming along. Awesome!

I really dislike driving in metropolitan areas....where a turn indicator means block me so I can't move over. Some are worse than others.

What Photobucket is doing doesn't seem right. They will get hammered in social media. Sorry they are messing up your threads....

gofastwclass

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I have had or know people who had problems with them and several other image hosting sites. What pb has done is exactly why I host my photos on my own website and domain.

truckdoug

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i switched to imgBB, but im sure they'll do the same crap eventually.

anyways, looking good as always! keep up the great work!

truckdoug

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also wanna say HI 5 for stopping at prince's studio. dude was an amazing musician and one bad **** with a guitar in his hands.

showdog75

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Isn't Paisley Park the name of the studio?

Motown 454

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The passenger side of the car must have been the shady side when it was parked the way it came out so nice. Your doing a nice job on the clean up.

ls1nova71

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So I've lost some interest in this thread since Photosuckit has become such a pain in my *** and wiped all the pics at the begining, but I guess I'll finish it out anyway. I'm going to see if I can go back and edit the first part and add some pics but not sure how long that will take.

I had an issue with the A/C compressor bracket I made. It would throw the belt all the time. After removing the compressor and brackets and bolting them to an engine I have on a stand, I started to modify them when I noticed that the tensioner was starting to come apart. I got another one that was good, then moved the mounting location for it a bit and all is well now. Had to repaint the bracket and while I was at it, I painted the compressor black so it doesn't stand out as much. You really have to be looking to see it now, just the way I wanted it.



A little masking....



Painted...



Vacuumed the system down and charged it. It blows cold, but with no center vent hooked up and no interior to speak of it doesn't work as well as it could. Need to get the rest of the car put together!



Took some pics after the polishing was done, but it doesn't really show in the pictures as much as in real life.







Then started to make a housing for the center A/C vents.







Cut out the holes for the vents....





Vents installed. I installed it in the car and it really helps with the cooling. Just need to get some paint on it and put it back in then I can move on to the interior.

Motown 454

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The car looks great in the pictures and you did a nice job on the vents .

Aston Tibs

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I love this build. Have you considered tinting the windows? I think it would look awesome with blacked out limo tint or even something like 20%. That would also help your cooling somewhat. If you at not a fan of tint that's fine because it looks awesome as is.

243

Even light tint would do wonders to keep the fishbowl much cooler!

Nice job as usual E', amazing what you handcraft that normal people spend long hours searching to buy.

ls1nova71

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Gosh, its been a couple months since I updated this thread, but since the PB deal and not knowing what Imgur will do, I just kind of lost interest in it. But, now there seems to be a way to link the pics to this site, so this is just a test to see if I can get it to work. If it does, I'll update the thread with some current pics.



HA! looks like it works! It's a bit of work, but still better than that slow *** PB.....