Projects Im getting Married! Project 46 ford begins!

Good laurd how did I ever miss this thread? you were a skinny germ back then the good doctor has sure cured that.
I suppose I should congratulate you on many levels here, the '46 is sweet (well sweet by bean standards), you survived the wedding, and there aint enough band width to describe the missus, my standard purdy just doesn't even come close (I guess it is a start). You done good my ink slinging friend ( and I don't hand out may of those and really mean it).

Now let me puff up a little bit, Edye was saying the other day that I could not have found us better friends. She doesn't hand out many of those at all and always means it.

 

Thanks man, if you go to peep mirrors id suggest getting the extensions to push them further out from the body.

These cars swell a lot in the back and with out them you just kinda see the b pillar.

Also take the set screws that come with them to the hardware store and buy ones half that length. I fought a none latching door for a long ass time before I realized that that's what was hitting

And Finaly when you put those back seat belts in pay attention to where your side bolts land in the wheel wells. I ended up raising mine and using a shorter bolt so I wasn't risking the tire hitting it and full suspension compression.

~ looks like I didn't post a photo of the rear belts I'll take a photo tonight if I remember

 

Thanks for the heads up. Stuff only experience can teach you.

 

Ha! @porknbeaner I don't know how you missed this monster of a thread, but I guess I havnt been updating it all that much.

Thanks for the compliments and for all the help. Cars wouldn't get done with out good friends

*and would you believe I'm actually down twenty pounds since we got married! Bigger beard though so it probably balanced out haha

 

They would get done sooner if your friends had their head in the game. LOL

 

Alright well time for a quick update I guess.

I painted the car two years ago now and after all the hoopla I just was out of fucks to give and didn't even want to think of wet sanding or any such things.

Fast forward and I'm thinking " you know poverty flats is having his pie festival car show Memorial Day weekend maybe I'll wet sand that run down on the fender" figuring it's one of the worse panels on the car and if I make it worse it's not a huge deal.

Well here goes :S I've never wet sanded, buffed, or polished paint before. Honestly I watched some YouTube videos and asked a bunch of questions about three years ago and decided I'd just go for it.

 

^ pictures got flip flopped you get the jist.

Down side is it looked better than the rest of the car after I buffed the fender....


So I invited a friend over and a zillion hours later we had the car sanded with zillion grit paper as far as we dared. Even though there's a lot of paint on the car I was still afraid of going threw it. Keep in mind I've little to no clue what I'm doing.



Buffing out pretty good!

 

Polished but not waxed yet
Every time I did something it didn't necessarily get shinier as much as it felt a bit darker black.

The car has always photographed well but the deck kid was always just terrible. This is the before shot

And that's an after shot!


Waxed!

 

Alright so the only one who has seen the car a bunch in person and hadn't seen the car at all in the three weeks this took me to do was @porknbeaner so I polished some of the trim and went to see him



I took about a zillion photos but you get the jist. In different light I can see a ton of spots I didn't do a great job on, they are all totally workable still so maybe next spring I'll give it another round. For now I'll wax it again and move onto the next big item on the list!

The interior has been a long time coming, I'm going to see how far it gets before @povertyflats show

 

Some photos from when it first hit the road, that second shot is after some hand buffing and two coats of wax. I would be lying if I said I didn't take 10 shots trying to get one that didn't make it look as bad as. It was

 

Well I saw it in the buff (pun intended ) fellas and it is looking miles ahead of the game at this point. less then perfect but genuinely like something that one of us would have driven and been proud of back when these cars were not a repaint yet.

 

Just read through the whole thread...great job!

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Thanks man it's a continuing work in progress as they tend to be but I feel like I'm getting closer to driving more than messing with it. I don't tend to update unless it's a bigger change but I tend to be tinkering with it most the time.

Hopefully I'll have another good update in a few weeks

 

Looking good.I`m guessing that at this point in time,you`re just about out of elbow grease.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

 

Lol indeed

 

Car shows exactly three years apart today. A good 4 inches lower, much straighter and now shiny feels good to come across these old photos some times

 

Looks great! How was the turnout yesterday?

 

Didn't even see your post till now Mike, turn out was massive. I was there a half hour before "start" time and was the first car parked in the back 40 in the grass behind both shops. Not on the side, the back! Like open the gate and go behind it. Huge turn out

Random notes while I'm here I'm just now started on installing the head liner and then into our scratch made upholster. I'm hoping to have it and maybe a bigger cam in it by the HAMB drags but we'll see.

Ill post a link to my head liner instillation post and some photos when I get that far

 

I found my way here from seeing your post regarding the KC Cars and Coffee. I tabbed through most of your build thread here. It's was cool seeing pics of familiar places. I recognized the place you picked up your car across for the Gale's HD and Jimmy Flowers spray booth rental. I'm building a 49 AD and hope to make it to one of the KC Cars and Coffee meet before the end of the year. Great looking ride and nice work! Cheers, HUSSEY.

 

Thanks man! We hold a cruise night every fourth Friday at our shop in Lee's summit of you ever feel like cruising over and saying hi

805 se 3rd st in Lee's summit

 

Oh and I got the head liner in the car!

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/how-to-install-a-headliner-in-a-fat-ford.1027573/

For a how to

Was really surprised at how much road noise it killed on the highway

 

Well the interior is about half done at this point, we had intended to have it done a couple weeks ago but a new project has kinda drain some energy so it's been waiting.

But I'm alright with it, this seems like a very worthy project to have the 46 take a back seat to

 

Congrats!!!

 

Fantastic news! Congratulations!

 

Thanks guys, we're pretty excited

 

That is the best news! Congratulations!

 

Wow! A brand new Tim Jr. Or is it a Sarah, Jr? You'll have to take the new kid up to grandpa's to show it off and you guys can stop by here to say Hi. Mrs Rocky LOVES little babies...Congrats on the new #17.

 

Cool dude, way cool. You guys know who the dad is yet? just kidding

 

Thanks guys we decided that we don't want to find out if it's a boy or girl, we'll wait to be surprised.

I told a friend that and he replied with "well, yeah I guess it doesn't matter as long as they are raised a hot rodder" haha, good reply

 

You tricked her didn't ya. I told her that holdin' hands would get her into trouble.