The reason your one arm is smaller than the other ain't because of it being broken... its from overuse of the other one.... You're gonna go blind Flop...
What a minute... i saw some chopped cars at VIVA LV last year and they used lots and lots and lots of bondo. I think you chopped it wrong, with the smooth metal there's no room for bondo...
That's some funny shit right there. Glad to hear you're back in the game Flop, I've been missing this build.
get back to work. can somebody please add this youtube link directly to this thread. haha http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otPL8KwKQmw
the plastic surgeon cleared me for work wooooooooo!!! crazy my left hand has 180 lbs of grip and the right is at 100lbs. more updates real soon gotta turn the car around and gonna start from the front work my way back finishing everything thats 90%...reeeal real excited for this !!!! no PT either wooooooooooo!!!
Good to see you back! I see you have the car up for sale so you can buy a shop. Shame you can't hold onto it but you got to do what you have do.
Dude glad the hand is better, My '54 f-100 yawns for my return...keep up the good work, your fab work is amazing
i'm blind in my left eye from doing stuff like that. I'm dead serious! '' use safety glasses!!!!!!!!!!''
well im starting from the front and finishing the car panel by panel...i think thats the only way i can finish this car to the calibur i want it at. pass side fender. filled all pits and pin holes and a minor crack in the 53 surround. also made the 53 surround go into the fender at the bottom. man does it feel good to be workin on this thing again. the tig welder adds a new element to it for me too. find all my previous mistakes and circle then in green ..do alot of poking with a pick to find pinholes and weld em up i still got it!!! hah onto the fender gap with the door tomorrow then to the other fender!!! i hope its not to boring for ya out there but this is the only way im gonna get it done.
driver side done today !!!man it feel good to be back on this car again!! im so fucking excited about it ..its a combo of things i kno for a fact but everything seems to be going way to right now!!! started with bad door gaps on the passenger side and the bottom of the fender sticking out got the gap situated with a little persistence bottom of the fender in helped alot also with alot more persistence was getting things level across so i dont have t use much filler on the ends of the panels alot of hammer and dolly work done
thisis the part where i love the tig dealing in pinholes that a mig would blow through on its lowest setting even if it isnt very thin but has had grinding done to it. all my bad spots side profile of the front all done except for the hood. and the beginnings of my grill... 59 caddy bar gonna use some kind of tube on the ends to house parking lights/turn signals...opinions please!!!
You ruined the grill by putting that coors light can in there!! get rid of that shit and drink another paps!!
that coors light can is for my main man bill in nj hahaha...his beer of choice yell at him....i got 24 for free i couldnt let them go to waste but he actually buys them
Hahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The first thig I thought of was, "Hey the beer cans are a nice touch... Coors? I'm gonna have to yell at him!" Lookin good man, you're makin up for your time on the DL tenfold!
Flop, I've been eyeballing the chrome bullets like from nightprowler. Not sure if there big enoulg, or long enough for ya, but might be the ticket. Looking good mang!
THANKS james i need to get me some photo shop.. the one with the lights now looks like it needs sumthing else to it for some reason .. i really dig the smooth bar alot.but im still waaay up in the air i like them booth. the ford lights may be a good idea too. for a color james i am thinking a black cherry... where only the red in it will pop in the sun. Damn you did the corners too i didnt notice that till now!!! which is funny since that is what i started today! here is how i got my radius for the round corners...5 inch cut off wheels radius made a break in some 18 guage then did alot of stretching and still couldnt get the radius right so i had to put a relief cut much work but it makes such a difference and its tying the whole front end of the car together now. still rough around the edges but you get the picture.
headlights are staying that way...it had shitty hagan frenched headlights in it i took those out then had 53 caddy headlights and bezels in there.they came out.. then it went back to stock with them frenched ever sooo slightly so they are in perfect arc with the fenders. plus if they were frenched i think there would be waaaaay to much paint up there and have an 80s painted everything feel
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