RC is about 15 minutes from me,but years ago he lived about 5 minutes away.
70 Road Runner convertible project
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He is the man! He's always raising the bar! He moved on up to the east side, I can't hang with him! Lol I do know one thing for sure though, he is sorry that he sold that sweet white 69 Road Runner he had a couple years ago.
I am hoping to get back on it this weekend.
I hope I have another tip for the plasma cutter,because I want to get the floor pan cut out over the weekend.
Sorry I'm late to the party, but I just wanted to chime in on a small detail. Not all 70 Air Grabber cars had the hole cut out in the firewall for the vacuum hoses. Quite a few early ones, especially from California, did NOT have the holes (my guess is all had the holes drilled by early 1970). Instead, they passed through the firewall behind the voltage regulator. I did a fair amount of research on this and have documented several examples of early cars without the hole. Below is one such example.
Sounds like you now have the fender tag so now you undoubtedly know for sure if it was, but I figured I would chime in just as a FYI.
Cheers,
Hawk
There is a crudely drilled hole above the heater hose holes,that you can see in the firewall photo on page one of this thread. The fender tag does not show N96 on it.
Well I worked up some ambition and went out and started cutting out the floor pans. I got about 2/3s of the pans removed, and probably would have gotten more done but the plasma cutter was being temperamental. I still have the drivers side foot well area,and the two rear sections that complete the rear footwell areas to remove. Those have to be drilled out so they will take more time to remove them. It looks like I have to go to work and plow snow and shovel and treat the side walks,so I probably won't get out here tomorrow.
Hey, you're making progress! Keep at it and it will move along quickly!
Hawk
Hawk
I did have to go plow and shovel about two inches of heavy wet slush last night. I am contemplating getting back to work on the car at some point today,depending on what the wife has planned. I noticed that the seat support brackets have some rust issues that will need to be tended to,and the seat belt mount nut is torn out of the inner rocker panel on the passengers side. I will have to cut the inner rocker panel and weld in a new piece with a hole drilled in it,and the seat belt nut welded into it. I will used some 1/8 inch plate that I have to meke this stronger than it ever was from the factory. If I can get the rest of the floor pan removed and prepped for the new AMD full floor pan,that would be a good day.
It's getting there Steve, but it is one step forward,ten steps back! Every time I cut another piece out of the car,I find another area that needs to be repaired! I got one of the three sections of floor pan that I had planned to remove today removed from the car. As soon as I got started on the car, my wife called me and told me that the birthday party was going to start one hour earlier than I had been told. It is just immediate family, and my daughter's boyfriend, because of the covid crap, but it ended my short day of work on the car!
Yup, but the good news is you had a short day on the car - better than nothing!
Keep at it and you'll continue to make good progress. I need to get back to my car and start making some progress on some issues I want to fix with that - but surprisingly they 'aint fixing themselves!
Well I worked my typical 12 hour day today, but I still wanted to try to make some forward progress on the car, even if it is 26 degrees in my garage! So I cut the area out of the passenger's side inner rocker panel, where the welded seat belt nut was rotted and torn halfway out of the rocker panel. Then I got a piece of 1/8 plate steel and cut out a new piece. Tomorrow I will drill the hole into the steel plate and weld the original nut to the backside of the plate in the correct location so it corresponds with the hole in the new floor pan. It's a small job but atleast I feel like I am accomplishing something on the car.
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That's Indiana rust!
No doubt Steve,I will be fixing every bit of it!
I got the piece of 1/8 inch drilled out in the proper location, and welded the factory square nut that receives the seat belt mounting bolt. I had to remove the nut from the rotted and torn rocker sheetmetal, and grind the slag off of it,before I welded it to the new piece of metal. I etch primed the back side of the new piece, and will do the same thing with the face of the piece after I weld it in and dress out the welds. Once it is installed, it should have way more strength than just a nut tack welded to a piece of sheetmetal.
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