New Girl(s) From Houston

Happy Friday, everyone!

My name is Cynthia, and I'm one of three sisters-in-law trying to restore an old car. We had this idea that we would buy an old car, and try to restore it ourselves, using nothing but the internet as our guide, and creating a weekly video blog of our efforts.

We shared this idea with my former boss, who is a Ford Falcon owner and enthusiast. He shared our idea with another Falcon owner, and that very nice gentleman offered to donate a 62 Ranchero to our project. We named her, Millennium, or Milly for short.

The three of us has no real experience working on cars, other than occasionally holding a flashlight for our husbands while they fix something. Fortunately, we've started a bit of a community on facebook, where helpful people weigh in on what we're doing. We've met some pretty fantastic folks at swap meets, online, and even at our local auto-parts store. Everyone has been extremely generous with advice and information...and encouragement. This forum seems like a great source as well, so I'm excited to explore it.

Anyway, here's a picture of Milly, and a link to our latest "episode."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmZnVLzsCIw

Nice to meet you all, and thanks for reading!

Cynthia

 

welcome and good luck.

 

Girls??? That's Hot! Good Luck Girls. You've come to the right place.

Hey, make it into a Hot Rod so we could "run um" when your done.

 

Ha! We're going to make a calendar...Here's a sneak peak of January...

 

Look at you Girls, Beats dishes Huh


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good luck with your build ladies..looking forward to following the progress!

 

Good Luck ladies! It's always nice to see other gals on here. I've got two I'm working on myself. Milly is absolutely precious. Have fun!

 

Welcome "GIRLS". Sounds like a lot of work and a lot of fun.
Some advice.....whatever you were grinding or scraping while wearing the face mask and glasses, please wear some good protective goggles.
Your eyes are very valuable in many ways.
Lizzie, my wife went as "Tin Lizzie" when I was on CB radios.

 

Thanks Everybody! We absolutely protected our eyes. I had glasses, goggles, and a face shield, but it still didn't quite seem like enough.

 

Okay. Now go wash your face and go cruising. It's Friday afternoon!

 

Welcome. What a great group of gals! Good luck with the Ranchero build. I'm very impressed with your tenacity and willingness to leap head first into something you're not familiar with. This will be a tremendous experience for all of you and I will be eagerly following the progress.........................................................Don.

 

So when it comes to driving the Falcon, you going to flip a coin or fight it out?

Can't help but believe you'll really come up with something great with the combination of ideas between you.

Welcome from Maryland and enjoy the HAMB ! ! ! ! !

 

good luck ladies and welcome from reading,pa

 

Welcome from Colorado

 

Hahaha that's awesome. My uncle (he was big into building hot rods) actually used to call me that as a little kid running around his shop.

 

Be sure to check out the Ladies of the HAMB group. Lots of car crazy chicks there!

 

Welcome from Texas and good luck

 

Howdy, Ladies!
My first car was a '61 Fordor that I bought from my brother-in-law, who got it from Southwestern Bell, (remember them?). I had over 425,000 miles on it when a drunk hit it.
Wish I had it now. I loved that little beast.
I can hardly wait to see it when you're done. Good luck and have a lot of fun!

Robert

 

Welcome to the h.a.m.b..enjoy the ride...

 

Welcome from New York. Be creative and have fun.

 

welcome aboard and good luck to you all! just remember your not doing it right unless your doing it twice! I will be watching

 

Welcome from Nv, got a soft spot for rancheros myself

 

So if we're doing things three or four times, we must be REALLY right! Thanks, everybody, for the nice welcomes and tips! We're pretty excited to learn a few (several hundred) things.

 

Well, this is just cool as hell! Welcome. You might want to start a thread on the main page to post your progress and links to your videos. I'll subscribe for sure! If you have questions, ask 'em. We're on the Interweb so it wouldn't be cheatin'. There's a lot of knowledge here and we do pretty good at helping each other out here but sometimes we can be a little rough around the edges. Hope you don't mind (not talking about me, of course, it's those other guys. I'm very refined.)

 

Very cool. Welcome. This shall be fun to follow. I agree, go out on the main board and start a build thread if you haven't already.


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Hello and Welcome from Twain Harte, California, USA
Way to go Girls!!!

 

Congrats ladies! It's good to see members of the "fairer sex" get their hands dirty!

Time to put your adventures on the main forum so we can keep track of your progress!

Good luck with your escapades! (and keep on "scraping!"

 

Tooooo fun.....welcome. Look forward to seeing what you all come up with. Sounds like a great idea, and alot of fun for you guys!
Tom

 

Welcome from your northern neighbor--Oklahoma. When you get your project done you can come work on some of mine.

 

Welcome from CT.