Projects another damn project...61 uni body ford

Oh yeah. An online buddy Jay Brown from over on the FordFE website has done the hotrod drags several times, and won it at least once that I know of. He's got a '69 SCJ Mach 1 thats a near identical twin to mine. Plus he's got a cammer powered '64 Galaxie, an '05 GT-40 and on and on. Poor guy.

 

yea it should be a good time!

 

update from yesterday.
had a long night. got the drivers side floor/and braces all cut out. fab'd up new pieces and fit them in place, still need to weld it all in.

got the new stock sized oil pan in, good on clearance now!

will post some pics of all tonight.

 

Those are 1964-1967 289 Hi Po exhaust manifolds, also known as a K-code (because the Mustang and Fairlanes had a "K" for the engine code). They are reproduced, can't tell if those are original or repro's.

 

how would one tell?

 

daily....
got the mirror holes all welded up, along with teh hood all shaved a up. dropped all that off at my buddy mike at s&s in webb city mo to start the body work and prime job.

dropped off my wheels for the new rubbers
received my new flake steering wheel, cragar spinners, and prop valve in ups today.

14x6 in frt 14x8 in rear

 

Prime job?? What?? I thought it was gonna be "Get it running and bagged"???

 

welll......
it evolved

 

yesterday update...
got quite a bit done.

finished up the floors/cab braces, still need to get the trans tunnel rolled out today.

fab'd up and finished the front shock towers/lower mounts. finished the brake tabs. shaved up the gas tank filler/fixed the rust in the tail gate,rust in the lower cab corner area, and the rust in the doors!

picked up my wheels for the last time. got them mounted with the new tri-bar spinner caps.








not too many pics. i get in the groove and forget.

 

hahahahahahaha I hear you're good at making them evolve!!!

 

I cant see the pics, it says something about bandwidth exceeded with photobucket. WTF!

 

well i guess i need top upgrade my photobucket account?
anyone have any experience on this, other then just paying them now? ive tried to delete some of teh other folders, but no go.

can i just open another account and transfer my some of my photos?
$25 bucks could be used on the truck, not to show pics right now!

 

yesterday agian....

i got all my floors done, trans tunnel fab'd and done.finished the motor mounts, shaved up the rest of teh dash, antenna holes, etc.. and go tit over to my buddies body shop. we worked till about 2;30 last night, getting the firewall and most of the rough mud work done. i da'd most of the upper portion of the truck down to bare, nice thing this truck as never been repainted, at least with a good paint job, theres is spots of house enamel here and there.

of to s&s body shop right now, pushing forward..

 

Once your monthly 'bandwidth' is exceeded, you have to wait until the new month starts for your photos to show up (not sure if it re-sets on the 1st of the month?). Only way that I know of to get around it is pay the fee.

You could upload your photos to each post on here, where they show up as smaller thumbnails at the bottom of the post. Also, I think there's a way to upload them to your profile page, then post them on this thread (seems like a pain, though).

You are welcome to use my Photobucket account, too. It's all payed up and unlimited. Let me know and I'll send you the login and password.

 

Yea just get another account, or use one of the other free hosting places...

Imageshack
Flikr
Tinypic

 

should be good to roll fellas, photo bucket pro!
don't have time to dick around for 25 bucks!.
Malcolm thanks for the offer.

ill update later, just ran home to eat and family time then back to prime tonight!

 

weekend update
got it all primed,
fire wall, frame, suspension, and dash all painted.
big thanks to mike standley at s&s restorations for all the long hours to help me out here!

this is mikes little boy!
little guy is a supper tropper, helped all weekend long with sanding, and added some laugher to a other wise long shitty weekend of doing what i hate most about building cars.





some before it went to s&s




after with the paint work done.





mike

 

looking great ! your moving right along

 

Damn bro, you dont waste much time do ya...

 

tring my best to get her done.
thanks for all the nice words, it kinda drives you to go out and work harder.

 

It's so nice to see someone come buy a project from you and then go crank it out like this... I'm really proud to say I saved it from the crusher and you've got a nice truck!!!

Can't wait to pinstripe that dash!!!

 

thanks!

thanks, you should really try and make it, its a damn good time.

 

Slow down man!!! You're making us slackers look really bad!!

 

got the front end re assembled on the chassis, and brought her home.
had to modify teh stock column some more to clear the shock mounts and dd the end of the shaft for the u joint.

 

Looks like this project has gotten pretty serious,keep up the good work.

 

That is just fantastic. The work and the stance is perfect.

 

Holy crap ryno, your makin' me dizzy. Not only have you made lightning fast progess on your truck, you've also had time to redo your trailer. Can't wait to see it Friday night at Joplin.

 

Wow awesome work ryno!
Makes me feel so lazy hahaha

 

what did you use on the wheels?
after you sand blasted them?