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Not really in front of anything....
So these are the only pictures I have of the finished car I'll get some more when the weather is better as I did the interior, trunk and stuff....
Next was on to the front bumper. I know some don't like it I thought it was kinda neat but missing something so I added my touch to it. [IMG]...
Next was the rear quarters the choice was between caddy and dodge. Went with the dodge as the Caddy quarter dwarfed the car and I only had one...
Just noticed that I haven't updated this and really hate it when one never sees how the car finished out. So here we go. My boring motor choice...
We just got in to California last night. In from sunny Manitoba haha. So if you see her around her car stop and say hi.
Thanks pretty pumped about this car. Been a while since I've got the bug to do another custom. Will be trying to get some more done on it this...
We'll be cruis'n in with the Merc from Manitoba. Hoping it's warmer out there than at home right now.
Wife's car the Merc, couple old Plymouth's and Chrysler
So I made up some headers. There not pretty got a little lazy with these, but they should work. [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] Splash some paint on stuff to...
[IMG] Finishing up with the B pillars [IMG] [IMG] Drivers side [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] Now the back window was having problems finding...
Well here we go again going to try and document this one, as I seem to be slacking in that department lately. So I picked up a 53 Cranbrook from...
Wife's car link to the build http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=678279
Well here's an update for everyone. The car is still alive even though she was looking a little sad for a while, as it had beed sitting outside...
I use the later 2 also on my home built hobby table only difference is I us. The cad is the harder thing to get a grasp on I personaly use...
I usually have my summer cars/trucks and my winter "Beaters" The fastback has been my driver this winter and the pickup I just sold this winter.
Bunch of us Canuks will be coming up for the swapmeet :)
Well just a little update we have been cruisin the merc for a few months now, and we have almost 7500 trouble free miles on her already. We also...
Haha honestly it's just that peel and stick chrome stuff.
Nope stock length frame in the back
By front structure do you mean the toe boards and such? If so yeah I used all that from the Pontiac just above the brake booster across to the...
Thanks guys, we finally got her on the road and have a few bugs to work out seems the fuel tank leaks and have to give the motor a good tune up....
So at this point we had a friend of mine come out and do a little painting of her wheels and strip the dash before glass as put in. [IMG] [IMG]...
So now we got a little paint in the door jams and some color on the dash. Started getting the interior back in. [IMG] [IMG] Then set out to...
Thanks guys. Couple more pics. I love the back of this car!! [IMG] [IMG] So anyway at this point we where pretty tired of welding and...
Yeah will have more pics up tomorrow when I have time to post them it's actually almost at that point very little left to do.
So anyway on to the rocker repair. [IMG] Little test fit [IMG] [IMG] Finish the front. [IMG] Sweet... [IMG]
Well time for some vent windows which is always the crappy part of any build. The arsenal.... [IMG] Stripped apart [IMG] What it need to...
Now to put in perspective what we started with. [IMG] Ah the fun with paper. [IMG] Testing to see if I made it right [IMG] Time to rid of...
More Chop!!!! [IMG] [IMG] This part actually posed the biggest problem really. Didn't help that I decided to change the way the rear window...
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