Here are some pictures of the car somewhere other than inside my garage. The grass needs cut and was a bit high so that kind of hides the fact the car is 12 inches off the ground The car is pretty good right now except for one minor problem. The garbage cans I used for [...]
I spent most of today cleaning up the mess from painting the car and doing some little detail work so there wasn’t much good to see. I did get the bumpers and lights on though so it looks a lot better now. I didn’t bolt them on totally I just put them on for show. [...]
Car is now blue. It looks way better in person than it does in pictures Tomorrow I will pull it out into the sun and let it dry real good. Then it is time to put the lights and junk back on.
The new top was pretty simple to install really once all the screws were found. There is a video on how to do it on teamswift.net that shows how to put a top on. It fits nice and snug but I left the side pieces off till I paint the car. The tires also came [...]
This weekend has been slow going, it has been over 90 every day and really high humidity. I got all the dents and bad places smoothed out on the body and the base white paint is on there good and dry now. I loaded the car up on a trailer and hauled it in to [...]
The hood and most of the body is pretty smooth and flat now. Check out the reflection in the hood. Not much else done today. Sanding and body work takes a lot of time.
Was raining some today and bad weather in general but since it was only a base coat it doesn’t matter if it is not perfect. I see a few places that need some spot putty to fix before painting so maybe the middle of next week it will be painted blue.
The car is getting pretty well done so I took it for a little drive around the alleys here to make sure everything was working. I didn’t want to drive it far because I didn’t have matching tires or enough lug nuts for the wheels. The car runs and drives fine so there are no [...]
I have had no luck finding a drivers window for a convertible. So I did the next best thing, I made one. I have plenty of hatchback windows but the corners are shaped different and the mounting points are different. The overall curve and shape is right though so that is what I used for [...]
