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Yeah, so it's been a while since I've posted any updates. I've been busy helping my buddy get the roof painted on his '55 Chevy. While it's turning out AMAZING, it's been eating into my wagon time. We are doing panels with lace, scales, fan patterns, and stripes. We put down a gold flake base, and have been putting different colors of candy over different sections to get the look he wants. It's getting close, so it will be nice when it's done. Here's a little sneak peak. We still have a lot of wet sanding and clearing to do.
Anyway, I don't have just a ton of updates on the car, but here's a couple pictures. I got all the front brake lines bent, flared, mounted and tightened so that part is done. Just have to make the lines for the rear end and we'll be good to go on brakes, other than hydroboost stuff.
Also got my parts car tore down yesterday and have all the front end parts to swap over to the wagon. As soon as I can get those to John's, we can mount everything and start running all the air lines for the front air bag setup. It was almost a shame to part it out, with it being such a decent old car. I found inspection receipts that went back to 1979 in this car. Even found a hide-a-way key box under the edge of the left front fender and the door locks on both front doors are just as smooth as a new car.
I ended up building the drive shaft at my dad's shop, since he has a lathe and mill, to save me some money. I had to buy the slip joint to go in the rear drive shaft, but that was the only part that I had to spend any money on for the most part. I still have to buy u-joints, but those won't be too bad. We shortened the front drive shaft about 4 9/16", and I don't remember how much we had to take out of the rear shaft. Luckily, I had Chris' dad's drive shaft out of his '60 sedan delivery to go by. We had already put it in my car to test fit and it was just about the exact measurements that I needed so I took it to dad's shop to use for measurements. Only thing that was different was the slip joint I used. It's a heavier duty joint than the one in his drive shaft, so it's a little longer.
Anyway, I don't have just a ton of updates on the car, but here's a couple pictures. I got all the front brake lines bent, flared, mounted and tightened so that part is done. Just have to make the lines for the rear end and we'll be good to go on brakes, other than hydroboost stuff.
Also got my parts car tore down yesterday and have all the front end parts to swap over to the wagon. As soon as I can get those to John's, we can mount everything and start running all the air lines for the front air bag setup. It was almost a shame to part it out, with it being such a decent old car. I found inspection receipts that went back to 1979 in this car. Even found a hide-a-way key box under the edge of the left front fender and the door locks on both front doors are just as smooth as a new car.
I ended up building the drive shaft at my dad's shop, since he has a lathe and mill, to save me some money. I had to buy the slip joint to go in the rear drive shaft, but that was the only part that I had to spend any money on for the most part. I still have to buy u-joints, but those won't be too bad. We shortened the front drive shaft about 4 9/16", and I don't remember how much we had to take out of the rear shaft. Luckily, I had Chris' dad's drive shaft out of his '60 sedan delivery to go by. We had already put it in my car to test fit and it was just about the exact measurements that I needed so I took it to dad's shop to use for measurements. Only thing that was different was the slip joint I used. It's a heavier duty joint than the one in his drive shaft, so it's a little longer.
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