69 Coupe progress pics
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Hey Mike, The project is looking good. I have done some pretty thorough testing of the Mastercoat.I think when you do 2 or 3 coats it holds up pretty well.My most recent test was when I covered my 66 green vert in the stuff when I restored it 18 plus years ago and then recently sunk the car under 4 feet of salt water.....
LOL.
All kidding aside I pulled the firewall pad, the carpeting,etc. Seriously it looks clean as a whistle. The only rust I'm seeing is where the floor pans were bent from the storm and the stuff peeled in those areas.That's just light surface.
Have you considered converting your pedal setup to roller? Drake sells a kit that works really well and it's not too hard to install.If you need/want more info let me know?
Also do you have a 5th G.T. Wheel for the trunk as a spare? I may have one I'll gift to you at some point,if I can find it and you need it?
LOL.All kidding aside I pulled the firewall pad, the carpeting,etc. Seriously it looks clean as a whistle. The only rust I'm seeing is where the floor pans were bent from the storm and the stuff peeled in those areas.That's just light surface.
Have you considered converting your pedal setup to roller? Drake sells a kit that works really well and it's not too hard to install.If you need/want more info let me know?
Also do you have a 5th G.T. Wheel for the trunk as a spare? I may have one I'll gift to you at some point,if I can find it and you need it?
Here is a pic of the lower metl dash after I tried sand blasting it. I will try using paint stripper but that will have to wait for a bit since it will only be in the low 20's for the next few days. Malcolm thanks for the offer on the GT wheel for my spare, that would be great if you have one.
Mike.
Mike.
Hey Mike,
It's looking good,I'm glad you're making progress. I didn't hear back from you on the roller pedal email.For what it's worth if it wasn't time sensitive and if you didn't want to do it yourself I could do it for you. As far as the rim I haven't made much headway,It was too cold to go digging around for it. I'll let you know. Later,Malcolm
It's looking good,I'm glad you're making progress. I didn't hear back from you on the roller pedal email.For what it's worth if it wasn't time sensitive and if you didn't want to do it yourself I could do it for you. As far as the rim I haven't made much headway,It was too cold to go digging around for it. I'll let you know. Later,Malcolm
. I'll bring it down to you at the shore next time I'm down.So now you'll have the matching spare. I sent you a P/M. Later
Very nice! Tough to keep the projects going when your working outside in the winter. I usually work in my dads un-insulated garage and its sometimes colder than outside! Luckily this year we crammed my car in his basement. Hopefully there are some nice days scattered in so you can keep plugging away!
Well now that you mention about hopefully having some nice days it was almost 60 degrees here at the Jersey shore today so I spent about 1 hour working on the Coupe. I laid the restored tail light assembleys in place & temp mounted the pop open gas cap I purchased to see how it would all look. I also spent some time grinding down some welds. Next project are the seat tracks.
Spent several hours this weekend cleaning the wiper motor & the wiper motor mounting bracket & painted the bracket & the body of the motor satin black. I did cover the date of 10/28/68 & the part # C9ZF 17504C that was stamped on the wiper motor so I didnt paint over them. Next up is the heater box.
