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Work junk, and junk... at work. By 'junk.

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That 67 Ranger made my junk move a little.
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Ew but yep pretty hot for what she is. I bet she puts out, too. The 17s could be bigger as in more inches. At least thats what she said.
 
I saw one today that really caught my eye. Then I realized its my June job. A '34 Ford 2 door sedan, green and black and pretty as you please. Needs floor rust fix and something about the fender mounting by the grille is messed up. I figured it was a coupe but was thrilled to see its a 2 door sedan because I dig those. Looks all original. Fun ahead.

Camaro pic-o-the-day-

 
Today both sides got this treatment... DP90LF epoxy on doors and partial quarters. The existing primer was unstable and had some rust underneath in places.



 
Looking at the tail of this one.. and just seeing how you chose to fix the other. Interesting. Wondering if anyone would ever notice the ways both cars were fixed to have nice fitment.

We all know back then.. fitment wasn't job one.
 


I watched some Ford assembly line vids from back then and wow its a wonder anything lined up the way they did it. Swinging complete unsupported outer structures with rockers using a crane and plopping them onto full length floors and zap zapping away. There was no measuring, only practice makes perfect-ism.
 
Piece of cake for a guy like you. Show us some really screwy fitment that you wave a wand over and it's magically better!... We like that stuff.
 


MMM- cake. Speaking of cake, heres a sweet one from a few years back. He finally got his original bumpers re-chromed and I put the front one on today. This car represents a year of my work (2011-12). When I crunk it up to pull it in the shop, I flashed back to 1987 when I had a sedan like it. They are like driving clouds.



 
Continuing the '68 mud pics.

Actually when you shim the right side of the core support to level this front end out, the right fender's rear gap gets all wide at the bottom. The fender may require mods. I never did much to it. Gapping the front end on this may still present challenges. Pretty sure they mounted the frame directly to the body. The rubber body mount's height is supposed to be kept when you weld a frame to a body, with spacers. So if you follow me... the engine is going to sit really close to the hood.





 
Yep those look like shrinky dink tires on there. So close together its like you could tip the car over if you tried.

Got the news today that I'll be back on this '68 next week. Both this and next are short weeks for us. Primer except front clip this week, so that should be a good visual soon! I'l be re-doing the dash install and lining up the front end pieces. In the meantime, here is an overdue progress update. He is getting close with it and I think it will look good.




 


BillBoost37 said:
is that the thinnest layer of mud on the car? it would seem after all this work...you'd be super close to metal
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I'm seriously sitting here trying to figure out what you mean, buddy. This is how its going to be when the first primer-filler is applied. What may not translate in pics is how the filler process works. Filler has tiny air bubbles, you can't get around that. So after it is the right shape, you have to apply more so that all the pinholes and scratches are filled... at the surface with it shaped correctly. Theres some thick stuff around the trunk but the roof and sides are about average.
 
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