FE 1957 - Breton Blue/Teal Blue - 327, T700, modified chassis - original body

[fe350chev]

Yeah. Your new on here aren't you? I'm not far from Nati

[fe350chev]

Thrown another curve ball last week with my boy having emergency appendix surgery. Btw the 3 of us, we are the equivalent of a car lemon lol. There is still progress happening. Now with the shed wired and our new house fairly much complete, I'm hoping to get in the shed more. I've got to cut the bottom rear quarter out and replace, cut the rear boot lip out cos it's rooted and plan the fuel tank. I would like both cars to be at the same stage soon in terms of all the structural repairs being completed. It's good cos many parts that I won't need on this car can go to the taxi to get it going so there's advantages and disadvantages to doing 2 at once.

[fe350chev]

Yeah baby. With this bit of gear here for the weekend, were gonna cut sick on the blasting. I wish it was mine 😃😃😃. Parts cleaning has been the go this week. Boring but now most stuff is all at that stage.

[fe350chev]

Yeah. Bloody good.

Omg. Look at how good the rest of the car is. The floor was a train wreck but the body is awesome. Can't judge a book by its cover that's for sure. Haven't needed to use soda yet cos it's very thin paint and is working better with pressure down and keeping a reasonable distance away. I don't wanna use soda unless we have to.

[Old_Mt_Isa_Boy]

Looking good Deano. How before primer?

Regards

Wayne b

[fe350chev]

Here's with primer, the other pics look like primer but have been blasted. Pretty much near perfect condition for age but having only around 400mm of rain per year (we only had 270mm this year) helps.  [IMG]

[fe350chev]

Thanks to Luke the farmer who has lots of blasting experience for not ruining anything.

[DJ]

Very nice & solid. How did the front peaks look after all the years of dust packed in.

[fe350chev]

I blasted the guards ages ago. The ones on the taxi were full of fly screen and terrible. I have new ones and I'll be welding them in soon. I found a better guard recently and I'll be doing that one but not sure if it will line up that's all. The first lot of pics of the rear qtr's were done carefully cos Luke said he did a Porsche and gt xy falcon recently and they turned to bugger all but looked top notch and the owners swore they were good lol. Sees mine and wary as hell but was one of the best 50's cars he has ever blasted. So once we knew it was good he did another pass with fine used grit before we primed. Did gm use lead to joint the rear quarters?
(Edited and added July 2016):
That peak you were asking about. This is worst taxi one. FE ones need less work.

Heres one that I got to replace a really rippled one.

I got replacement peaks.

Bumpers bad.

[fe350chev]

I did some painting today. Did half of the inside behind firewall and up under the dash and some of the inside rear. I don't like leaving normal primer for very long. Still going to tidy it up with some rubbing before  final finish. Trial fit chassis kit etc but this will keep it protected in case of delays

[fe350chev]

Before pics

[fe350chev]

So, keep in mind that none of this whole job has been grinded to this point. I prefer to dremel or debur them. Then I will block and rub down then seal everything. A lot of work went into fabricating patches. Should look good when finished. I am really happy with the clean sill lines. But now I need to repair the front subframe of the other car. I wasnt going to do much to the taxi but I'm an idiot and have bought new floors, front crossmembers etc. Now my focus will go to fixing the guards for both cars, putting in a larger fuel tank in this one, welding the brackets onto the scalloped (nearly finished) hr front end for the refurbished rack and sorting out the steering column. Soon I will set up some baths to get things to copper plating and solder stage so I can work on little pieces here and there.

[DJ]

Before pics

Very A-La-Natural.
Rats & snakes come with it?

[TTV6FC]

Looks fantastic Deano, keep up the good work. Jamie.

[fe350chev]

Ha ha, yeah there's plenty of snakes around here out bush! Thanks Jamie. It's good to see your still watching what's happening.

[NickZ]

Look fantastic, its a good feeling to get to this point, I know just how it feels.

[fe350chev]

Yeah thanks. Especially before Xmas and I've got most of the parts clean or at a stage where there's not grease and rusty parts laying everywhere. Feels like I will be working with a clean slate for next year.

[fe350chev]

Did some more tonight. I sprayed over the inside with some old paints that I had. I wanted to spray it ultra runny right into seams and edges. Mixed some Shitty gmh black with some epoxy one pack primer (not etch) for this. Took a pic of the sexy spot welds before the bituminous paint. Then I sprayed the back section and under the dash a bit more with the bituminous chassis black.

[DJ]

Looks the part, clean work place now.

[fe350chev]

😁😁😁😉😉😉
Dont forget I got the FC taxi, so not clean yet. So I will grind down the butt welded floor later but I wanted proper paint on it cos I dont like leaving stuff in primer unless its epoxy sealer. No point doing that now cos I will fill the pin holes later whilst doing body panel work.