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Poll: Naming ones vehicle - boys names vs girls names Total Members Polled: 172 I'm a GIRL and my car has a BOYs name: 1% I'm a GIRL and my car has a GIRLs name: 1% I'm a BOY and my car has a GIRLs name: 20% I'm a BOY and my car has a BOYs name: 9% I've swung both ways over the years: 10% I'm a hippy and apply gender neutral names: 0% I use stuff like Blue Flash rather than names: 12% Don't be ridiculous, it's just transport: 42% I drive a manly van, names are gay:

I've been on this site for a long time and haven't made a build progress page so I figured it was about time I got around to doing it. My car has been off the road since 1975 and was stored inside an upholstery shop since the early 80's. I attached a picture of what it looked like when I first rolled it out of the building, it has 53,000 original miles. I've had the car since 2010 but progress was slow due to moving from Texas to Oklahoma. I had to put the car in storage for a yr and a half after I moved until we bought a new house so I had somewhere to put it. After that I got busy working on the house and building a shop so I had a place to work on my car. Now that most of my non car projects are completed I have been back working on the 69 trying to get the body work finished up so I can get it back on the road. Nearly all the parts that on the car have been rebuilt and are ready to install. I still have a little body work to do but can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Hey Casey glad the tornado missed you. I was coming back from the drags at Ennis and got caught by a hail storm between Denton and Decatur. It did not do a lot of damage to my 2013 GT/CS. A little further north in 1979 a huge tornado left me with a heavily damaged 69 Boss302. I hope to get it back on the road soon

Moving right along.

A 418 kit costs around the same as a smaller kit but requires that the bottoms of the cylinders be notched around 3/16" which only takes around 10 minutes to do with a hand held dye grinder.

Well, you just scored points with Michele LOL, she turned 51 this year. She was only 19 when we got married.

May be the brackets were not glued to correct spots thus limiting the adjustment.

Now I know why I don't like Pumpkin Spice.

If the top is not closing all the way ,the back quarter window may need to come forward if it is adjusted to the top

No ones allowed to smoke in my cars so that just seemed like a better use. plus they wont bother me for my cord.

Got the under side of the car all cleaned and finished then put the car back down on jack stands. I media blasted the whole bottom then seam sealed everything, coated with POR15, lightly sanded per directions then primed and under coated. I also blasted my lower dash and axle. Converted my non AC dash to AC and repainted. Disassembled the entire rear end, cleaned throughly and repainted the exterior. I blasted multiple small parts and pieces and powder coated them for durability. I’m converting my rear end to limited slip with 3.55 gears. Now that the rear end is cleaned and ready to reassemble I hope to be done with it next weekend and put it back on the car. I am waiting on a few small parts to come in though that may not be here in time for that.

Took the upper cowl off yesterday. Spent today making repairs and getting it all cleaned up and ready to go back together tomorrow.

Also added a new mustang to the family 2019 GT Premium with everything.

New floors installed and my son being my helper drilling out the rear seat back spot welds to work on the axle tunnel. I didn’t get any pictures of the repairs made to the tunnel but have some with the seat back pulled out and reinstalled. Replaced the taillight panel also.

The 4R70 is a good trans. Our old 1996 Mustang GT had. It went over 300K. Still worked fine when we got rid of the car. I serviced it regularly and installed both a shift improver kit and auxiliary cooler when the car was fairly new. I've installed both Transgo and B&M shift kits or shift improver kits on those transmissions. In my opinion, the B&M kit has worked better for that particular application. However, I don't think the 4R70 was ever installed behind a 351W. To the best of my knowledge Ford always put the larger E4OD behind 351W and larger motors.

Huh, I wonder how it reads torque? Thanks, but since its that complicated I'll stick with the 4R70W and 351W

Turns out the body man oval'd out the holes on the hinge to move the door further forward, Now my rubber has a ton of resistance on the door closing. What a disaster this guy is! Anywho, thats why i have no adjustment.