Grabber70Mach

Great, I'll add you to the list.   Two will be $53.00 delivered via USPS 1st Class Mail.
Thanks,
Doug 

PAINT!
Finally, I see RED!

Painter is working late tonight, and as most the pictures he sent are the same I'm only posting the one. But its a link to my photo gallery to the page with the rest of the paint pictures.

The car and all the parts are in the garage. Painted the satin black parts today.

Seems I neglected to post pictures of the car itself!

In white sealer

In Dupont Chroma base, Candy Apple Red

Dupont Chroma Clear Coat

Fitting the body panels
 

Big update today...
First time it has ran in 6 years.  I need to re-tighten the valve covers since the gaskets were leaking but it ran.
 
Other progress since last update:
power steering was leak tested and is tight tested new fuel sender and it is good filled with antifreeze and the water pump and thermostat are good All gauges look good to do:
Finish setting timing and idle switch to electronic points and new coil (pertronix and flamethrower) install gas tank fix passenger side low beam light (might replace all the headlight trim rings) re-install grille lower car and tighten suspension components get an alignment Insure, inspect, register and drive.

Same night as above but a different video
 

This week I got the new gas tank installed with new fuel sender, new fuel spout, and new rubber connector hose.  Changed the oil and installed a new fan only to find my old shroud is too small so might have to go backwards to the flex fan again.
 
Here is an old picture from 2014 when the old tank came out and yesterday with the new tank going back in.  The oldest one is too tall for the trunk now.


 
 

Yep.  Trunk monkeys.  The girls scraped out a lot of seam sealer under the old tank and my youngest daughter instalked all the fasteners for the new tank.  It's better than me bending over and they love it.

Oh and even better is the neighbor 15 year old who studies how cars work for fun comes over to help all the time.  He was there for the first start and is a constant motivator to get things done.  He likes old cameros but we won't hold that against him. :)
Another friend with a 65 mustang has also been a huge help.  It's great bonding over combustion engines. 

YES, yes you are

I will just leave this here

Here's what my flock of flamingos look like after viewing the hood:

They were bowled over!

I used SEM hot rod black. It turned out nice and they say it won’t go chalky.

On a 69-70 You would have to remove the backglass if you went back  original, with ours nothing  is removed. You are correct  about a lot of  warranty  problems with TMI. Their  problem  from the  beginning has always been  separating, ours will never  do that or ever stain.

Finally was able to get my parts out of powder coat purgatory. The guys have been swamped, but was able to get it on the line the other day. 

The main color is Silver vane, kinda like hammered antique. It is just a tad textured, but should hide dirt and scratches

Now to put it to some use, and get back to work on my build...

I laid my harness out on the floor, connected the earths to a piece of steel tubing and then tested and repaired all the circuits, then wrapped it and installed it in the car.

I have got to have one of these ...this is not an ad ...i just want one!

Getting the rear end buttoned up.....

Measure twice, ok four times, cut once.

MIG welds sanded down. I had several low and missed points.

So I touched them up with the TIG.

And then smoothed down and finally sanded with 80 grit on the DA. Still a few very low points that the 6" pad didn't touch but they are very shallow.


By the time I brushed on 3 coats of epoxy to seal it, it was dark. Sorry for the crappy photo.

I know my work is not up to others who do this often or have lots of experience. But I am pretty happy with the outcome. I think it is quite solid and pretty neat. I've very little experience with this and am still learning as I go. Rusty and Brian, I am sure others will know who I mean, give me lots of inspiration to produce the quality they do. I'll get better at it.

Wow, it's been a few months. I still haven't achieved much of anything except getting all the pistons back out and adding the complete set of spiro locks to the gudgeons. Of course by the end of that I had it down to a pretty quick repetition.
I have been getting lots of car stuff done, just nothing done for myself. Have also been doing the odd TIG job for people here and there which has been lots of fun and useful. You learn something new every time you pick up the torch.
Last week I scored some more parts for my other distraction(dust collector). I got a bargain. It's not pretty and has some rust but it'll stay looking like that, I have no intention on changing. Plus it matches the colouring on my cab that I picked up some time ago.

and this is the cab

Did some blackout work today. First the area behind the went.


 
Then a section under the backlite



 
And at last a little touchup on the blackout behind the windshield, just covered the inside of the A-pillar.

Starting to get the hang of it now..
 

I've put my lower dash and the dash small parts in a acid bath. It cleans off easily after a day and a pressure wash afterwards. Not done yet, because the bath is a little to small for the entire dash, so I have to flip it after a while. This process saves the structure in the dash very well.



Also, I suspected the acid would either dissolve the clutch pedal rod bushings to install roller bearings instead. I read that they were a PITA to remove, but here they fell out after two days.