I finished welding up the passenger side main frame rail. I put a bit of primer on the bare metal to protect it from rust. I then turned the car around and turned it up on it’s other side so I could get at the drivers side to do the whole process again on that […]
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Planning the tube chassis
I put the car back in the garage and turned it up on it’s side. I cut away the rust on the passenger side and have it ready to lay out the new frame. I used a section of fence post that is about 1.6" diameter to see how it would work putting the tube […]
Engine and front end mostly stripped.
Well there were lots of rusty bolts on the front end. Some of them I managed to get out with some work. Some of them had to be cut out. Fenders, hood, engine, and trans are out of the car now.
Stripped the interior on the project convertible
Time to start stripping down the car and seeing what all is wrong with it and what is rusted out. I took the entire interior out of it and found very little rust on the back half of the car. The front half has holes in the floor though. I will pull the front end […]