Outstanding! I thought the red car looked like a gem before you started! It will be a stunner now. Keep it up, thanks for sharing.
How patriotic. A red, a white and a blue Fairlane. Not bad you saved two out of three. The red one is going to be awesome. Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Parts at the shop.. Aaaaand.... Nice to have it over here, much less of a drive. They have a couple cars to get out of the way, then it will be sound deadener, Steering, Brakes, and hang all the body panels again.
No real changes to report, the shop was able to get a bronco out, which allowed my car to move into a safer location.. All the parts gathered together..
Friend of mine sent me some pics..."Look what I found" Noticed that the car is going on and off of jackstands so the shop can use the rollers... So, decided to put the old weld wheels back on.
Rust preventative coating on the bare metal inside the car.. Random bolt checkin..thread cleanin.. Fender seals installed.. Gasser '56 came to visit.. Another day.. Motor and tranny cleaned up, ready to go back in..'89 5.0 full roller B303 cam, Art Carr Street/Strip C4 3k Stall. Into Position.. Scotty givin the car the look.. Lots of hands making sure that motor and tranny touched nothing but mounts.. Bolting in.. Sigh of relief.. Master cyl installed with stainless lines.. Enough for today.
Brake lines went in.. Some sound deadener, the shifter, Steering column, access panel.. In the trunk.. New fuse box, brake pedal.. Steering, brake lines..
Steering linkage is in.. Painted behind the speaker/defrost grille.. Took the red wheels home.. Doors hung.. Time for fenders.. Even the shop owner getting involved.. Took more red stuff home..
So, this had some special meaning to me. Back when I first got my White Fairlane, my gas door was crooked. My dad took it apart and made a stainless pin for it. Fast forward 30 years, I told Kegan about it and he removed the pin, polished it, added some stainless washers and roll pins and put it back together. Much appreciated.
Plan is now to get the weather stripping on the doors and the trunk, fresh latches, then I'll prob be taking it home for a bit, let my wallet recover.
All stainless brake lines are in, and the brakes bled.. Sound deadener is in along with the shifter, that means brakes and park!.. I just like the look of this.. Starting on some weather stripping.. Gas door is on.. Random.. Did some work on the column, the shaft is nice and solid now.. So that's steering, brakes, and park. (almost portable) So Dearborn sent me a trunk latch but no rubber, door rubber but no latches. We Wait.
With all that "new" room under the hood you needed a DOHC too fill it up. All the hard works looks to have paid off; your going to have one nice Fairlane. Congrats
Not sure what I'll do long term for a motor in this thing, putting it together with the carbed 5.0 for now, may get an 8 stack in the future, and some custom headers to use up some of that room.
Havent posted on this in a while, but that's because not much is going on.. we finished up at the hot rod shop, Got the deck lid installed.. Door Strikers and latches.. Had to do a bunch of mods inside the column to fit a 4 speed (no shifter) hub onto an auto (column shift) column/shaft. Got that all straightened out, not it fits pretty well... Then it was time to take her home for a bit.
So I cleaned a spot in the garage, It has been a disaster ever since I brought my dads stuff over, still working on that stuff.. And I got her home. (so dirty from sitting on the fab side of the hot rod shop).. Got her all wiped down with some detail spray, got all the dust/grit off.. Just feels good to have her at home for now..
Been Quite awhile since I have done anything on the old Fairlane, but it is time.. So I rolled her outside, and cleaned off some of the dust. Paint should be cured now. Couldn't get my buddy with the enclosed trailer to come get it so rollback it is.. Of course I am following back to the shop.. And Here we go again! My buddies '30 is up top
Great thread! Just read the whole legacy. Wonderful work. So...all of this because a mouse ate some headliner??!! Awesome.
Some parts showed up, this should be fun.. Got the front cover on and most of the vintage air stuff on, Hilborn manifold just sitting there.. When we put the cover on we had to pull the balancer...prob a good thing... Filters for before and after the electric pump.. Pump.. Its kinda odd but the Hilborn manifold requires a remote thermostat... With the belt on after replacing the dampner..
I really like what your doing. Some aspects of this may not be traditional for some. Namely the the front suspension, But...anyone who owns one these will learn this if their front end needs a total rebuild...... They made this car for 4 years, 62-63-64-65. I believe it's the lower ball joint and control arm. This was designed to replaced as a unit...It's not reproduced. The ball joint is, but not the arm. It's a big deal replacing this ....if it needs it. Galaxie stuff does not work... Mustang stuff does not work.... Falcon stuff does not work.... Big Fairlane (Coke Bottle) stuff does not work.... What I'm getting at is this....If there is a Hamb era car that's a candidate for updated front suspension the 62-65 Fairlane is it.
We had the trim panels rechromed already but I really don't like what they look like so we are sanding on the little fins to smooth them out, then we will paint this middle section.. Ordered a new factory tank for the car with a 3/8" fuel line, the tank that was in the car was from like a fox body mustang? I never liked that tank on this car.. Was told that any fox body mustang headers would fit with the Mustang II front end, so I ordered these Mac Headers....... Old Air Heater, and the Vintage Air AC unit bolted back in... They are keeping her well covered.. Distributor is in and Kegan made a cool bracket that holds the FPR on the back of the engine.. Mocking up the new tank...Much better. Ahead of the rear axle you can see the tranny cooler.. Getting the heater cables hooked up to the old Air Heater.. Wires... I am glad Greg is doing this part..
More new stuff.. And this was an interesting one..we looked at the factory 2 speed wiper motor, it was pretty big and not much to look at, so I decided to change to a single speed it is much smaller, and I doubt this car will see rain. Gas tank mounted for good, Kegan redid the loops that hold it to the car, the aftermarket ones are bent threaded rod. All the wiring to the back of the car is marked off so when upholstery gets it they wont drill into anything...hopefully. Fuel lines, water neck and coil mount are on.. Here you can see where the heater hoses go low and thru the frame.. Pressure gage mounted on the regulator.. Elusive single speed wiper motor bracket... And installed with minimal wiring.. Underside of the wiper motor..
New headers came in from Doug's, 1 5/8" Primaries to 3" collectors and they fit after a slight adjustment to one tube. You can also see the new valve covers I'll be using, they are currently back off again for full polish. More header stuff... Pipes are just hanging in this pic but it shows the headers tuck in there pretty nice. Radio I ordered...AM/FM Bluetooth. Kinda hard to see but we extended the ashtray mount, then mounted the MSD on top, and the Holley EFI Controller underneath.. More wiring to the back of the car.. How she sits while waiting for more parts..
Fuel system getting wrapped up, Here is a valve you can close while doing filters...There is a hard line that goes from this to the fitting you can see above the tank Then across to the pre-filter... Then to the big fuel pump and the post-filter...From here it is hardline up to the front.. Another flex line takes the fuel up to the back of the drivers side fuel rail... The rails are connected with a hardline then out the back of the passenger rail to the regulator.. Out of the bottom of the regulator is the return line, it goes back to the tank on the passenger side. New 16 inch Mechanical fan.. The beginnings of a custom metal fan shroud.. Still have the guy working over here on the side trim, its all stainless and will be polished.. All the aluminum trim for the car being sent out to have the clear anodize removed.. Finally got my lighter done, If you haven't worked on a 1 year only car then you wont understand how something little like this can take so much time.
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