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Veteran Posts: 113 Location: Washington State, the wet side | It started as a seemingly small project. Install the new NOS speedo and detail the engine compartment. Well now the dash is apart for paint and re-wirring. The the minor detailing is now a complete motor out to be refreshed, inner fenders, firewall etc to be painted, DB conversion and who knows what else I will find. (image.jpg) (image.jpg) Attachments ---------------- image.jpg (213KB - 185 downloads) image.jpg (210KB - 195 downloads) | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 8443 Location: Perth Australia | Isnt it funny how these things snowball Glad I am not the only one this happens to The hard part is trying to stop yourself going overboard and turning it into a huge money pit It comes down to your ego a bit (I think) wether it all has to be perfect or you can let some of it slide (very hard to do for me, but the dodge wont be a #1 car, that I assure you) | ||
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 451 | You might as well take the inner fenders off and sand and paint those too...only a couple bolts....and that will make it easier to paint the firewall etc. Saw that speedo on ebay too...looks like you got it before I did...was a good deal too....congrats Edited by guyman 2014-11-02 1:56 PM | ||
haspe |
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Veteran Posts: 113 Location: Washington State, the wet side | Yes guyman that is on the schedule. I am also changing the dash from two tone to solid color after seing how your dash turned out Edited by haspe 2014-11-02 8:37 PM | ||
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 451 | I still used the bottom dash pad stainless trim..it looks good, gives it a little more detail. Will post a picture if I remember...so I filled the top holes and left the bottom ones for the trim...turned out really nice. | ||
haspe |
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Veteran Posts: 113 Location: Washington State, the wet side | Things are moving along. Sub-frame cleaned and painted. All new suspention components. AJA disc convertion installed. Motor at the machine shop to be rebuilt. Picked up a -62 727 Trans that will replace the cast iron tourqe-flight, which also ment a 6 rater than 8 bolt crank. My latest evil-bay purchase arrived in the form of a 1960 cross ram, complete with exhaust. Will fire up the 413 and break in the cam with a 4bbl so I don't have to many bugs to iron out at once with a fresh motor. Hope to have the firewall etc painted in a week or two, should be done just about the same time the motor is completed. If I just could find a suitable swivel seat for my project I be happy as a pig in slop. Edited by haspe 2015-01-12 10:17 PM (image.jpg) (image.jpg) (image.jpg) Attachments ---------------- image.jpg (184KB - 197 downloads) image.jpg (186KB - 210 downloads) image.jpg (208KB - 191 downloads) | ||
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Location: North Australia | Whoa, Peter! You are building a fine car there. Well done, keep the photos and story coming, that is an interesting build (I am envious!) Steve. | ||
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Expert Posts: 2905 Location: little rock, AR | haspe - 2014-05-06 10:39 PM My take on the expression on the Chrysler's face is: Errr I don't like smelling the Arse of the Ferd!!!MoParMan57 - 2014-05-06 2:50 PM On another note, fantastic photography! My favorites | ||
haspe |
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Veteran Posts: 113 Location: Washington State, the wet side | It's not world peace but my dash is almost done. (image.jpg) Attachments ---------------- image.jpg (374KB - 193 downloads) | ||
haspe |
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Veteran Posts: 113 Location: Washington State, the wet side | Firewall painted, 413 rebuilt and waiting for the -62 727 to come back from the transmission guru Pat Blais. Going a lot slower than anticipated but I hope to drive it by late July. (image.jpg) Attachments ---------------- image.jpg (292KB - 172 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2312 Location: Arizona | Is that dash a stock color and if so what is it? I love it. | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7207 Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | That dash color looks exactly the same as the color of the dash in my ex 60 Polara ( sort of) ! Nice job by the way! Edited by imopar380 2015-05-07 3:46 PM (DSC01168.jpg) Attachments ---------------- DSC01168.jpg (161KB - 198 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2312 Location: Arizona | Those look like completely different colors to me. | ||
haspe |
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Veteran Posts: 113 Location: Washington State, the wet side | That is a match of the original color by a local paint shop. It was two tone but I followed guyman's lead and made it single color and nixed the dash pad. | ||
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