Cant complain about the weather this weekend, slight drizzle and it did get a bit hot for a hour or 2 but was a nice overcast weekend, ended slightly early after my youngest son split my older sons head open while I was out the front.
As usual everytime I remove paint the steel under the filler looks like swiss cheese, I trial fitted the pass side doors and and cut the curve on the lower rear corner of the rear door. Then I cup brushed the back door arour the curve and noticed under all that nice paint was a bunch of holes. This is one of the last panels I was going to keep that was on it before as it looked like the only good one but it was just good bog.
now it looks like I am in the market for a new pass side rear door.
while in the mood to strip I then moved to the top of the dog leg but that just led to more dissapointment with a 2" hole in the outer and large swiss cheese area on the inner
I then decided to stop so I wouldnt throw anything.
The door jambs are pretty time consuming, one tricky bit I am not looking forward to is the windlace retaining strip that curves back at the bottom, it was non existant and needs to be remade, small bit but fidly.
The engine is slowly coming along but is currently stuck in my boot and become to heavy to get out by my self. might have to take the bootlid off the LTD and crane it out on the road.
I finaly got the outer lower pass side dog leg on but needs some slight altering. The one on the otner side was done while the car was on it's side and after looking at the pass side one I think I will cut up the drivers side again and re do it.
I guess I am nuts as I went and entered the nationals, I guess at least I will get a goodies back and t shirt and there was some good goodies last year.
Then also there is the chance like ahh, 1 in a miillion that I could get this thing driving and take it down.
I thought I had 2 weeks holidays but recently found we were over paid last year and they corrected it by deducting a weeks holidays, ouch
I guess this means I will be having another week like last year of working flat out on the car, hopefully it wont rain this time.
In these pics the car looks nearly finished but it is just sitting together, the subframe has been wire wheeled, sanded and acid treated already twice and now is again covered in surface rust and still awaits brackets for the brake booster, water / methanol pump ( its a big pump)claxton, washer tank and methanol tank, the metahanol is injected to help prevent detonation under boost without retarding the timing.
The front door is a good spare I was trying to sell awhile ago for $45, glad I didnt as it looks like a smick door, I had already preped a door with all the modifacations but ditched it due to rust. the doors will take a bit of work having power windows, central locking, speakers, push buttons to open outside, power window switches, curved lower corner and the front door mould holes filled on top of usual preperation for a door.
