northerndave
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Damn she's looking good!
The black is going to be AWESOME!!
The black is going to be AWESOME!!
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detmatt1
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Great choice Prop, you going to do the black hood stripes too?
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A little something for inspiration.
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Wow, that is indeed inspiration, Black on Black on Flat Black looks wicked!
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Yes sir it is!! Thanks for the pic's Dave..Those are awesome!!! I was stirring on the idea about hood stripes Matt, but after seeing this car, they will definitely be making their way to my hood.
Wow!
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OMG...is there an angle a clean RR doesn't look good from?
Thats just beautiful.
Propwash, your floors look great!
Mine are ready to paint and seal up as of Saturday so seeing yours look so nice and clean gives me some inspiration to get to it!!! ;)
Thats just beautiful.
Propwash, your floors look great!
Mine are ready to paint and seal up as of Saturday so seeing yours look so nice and clean gives me some inspiration to get to it!!! ;)
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OMG...is there an angle a clean RR doesn't look good from?
Thats just beautiful.
Propwash, your floors look great!
Mine are ready to paint and seal up as of Saturday so seeing yours look so nice and clean gives me some inspiration to get to it!!! ;)
No Doubt Black63..I'm gonna try as hard as I can to meet or exceed the beautiful job those folks did on that roadrunner.
On the floors already? Wow...I got to say you have one heck of an admirable pace on your project, along with a professional level of fabrication. Floors are kinda boring grunt work, but the pay off in the ends makes a guy feel pretty good. Thanks for the compliment!
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That black car is one that I found listed for sale last year on the internet, I kiped the photos from the sale ad because i thought it was so freeking awesome. :grin:
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Just wondering....(not going to be selling mine), how much were they selling it for?
Keeping the pic's were well justified...I got them saved on my computer as well now. Thanks again.
Keeping the pic's were well justified...I got them saved on my computer as well now. Thanks again.
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I really can't remember what they were asking, I was thinking it was big-ish, like 45-60k
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Holy Mackerel.........Yeouuch!! Must have been a serious resto-mod type of deal
northerndave
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Who knows if what they ask is what they really get or?
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Not quite as fast as it might seem... LoL
I'm still playing catch-up with my build thread as I only have time to post a bit at a time, so my last update is about a month old!
The old girl was a lot worse than I first thought so I'm actually behind on where I wanted to be...and unfortunately the "friend" who committed to help me on the mechanical end of things wasn't nearly as committed as he pretended to be, and thats really messed up my schedule.
Thats life...and I guess his got busy or something!!!
I'd say I might have worked him too hard...but he never actually showed up at all!
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Sorry to hear that Black..Goes to show, sometimes the only person a guy can count on is himself.. Either way, you're doing a great job with the whole me, myself and I route.
Boring work tonight.....Removing undercoating. By far the best thing i've found for removing the stuff is a decent air needle scaler. After just a couple hours, all of the outside inner fenders, both back inner wheelhouses and a portion of the rear floor pan are stripped of all undercoating. Being most of the underside of the car is new, another hour or two and she will be clean of all factory undercoating..
Here's a good pic for the undercoating critic's. Fresh looking clean paint that was hiding underneath the undercoating. Show's just how well this stuff protected these old cars up here. If she didn't have this undercoating from the factory, the car probably would have been rusted to pieces and crushed a long time ago..
Boring work tonight.....Removing undercoating. By far the best thing i've found for removing the stuff is a decent air needle scaler. After just a couple hours, all of the outside inner fenders, both back inner wheelhouses and a portion of the rear floor pan are stripped of all undercoating. Being most of the underside of the car is new, another hour or two and she will be clean of all factory undercoating..
Here's a good pic for the undercoating critic's. Fresh looking clean paint that was hiding underneath the undercoating. Show's just how well this stuff protected these old cars up here. If she didn't have this undercoating from the factory, the car probably would have been rusted to pieces and crushed a long time ago..
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I'm impressed.... Again lol!!
Not too many of my friends know what a needle scaler is let alone to own one lol!!
I have plenty of undercoating on my old bird too and I agree, it's saved these northern cars from turning into an orange stain in the dirt.
In the areas where I have needed to remove the old undercoating for welding on my car... (oh you'll love this)
I've been using a wood chissle. :grin:
Hey, it's got a nice handle and I find that if I scrape or chip away with some speed the stuff flakes and flies off.
I think I'll be getting a needle scaler before next winter though so I can crawl around under my car with goggles and a face shield and get the rest of my undercoating off.
Thanks for the tip.
Not too many of my friends know what a needle scaler is let alone to own one lol!!
I have plenty of undercoating on my old bird too and I agree, it's saved these northern cars from turning into an orange stain in the dirt.
In the areas where I have needed to remove the old undercoating for welding on my car... (oh you'll love this)
I've been using a wood chissle. :grin:
Hey, it's got a nice handle and I find that if I scrape or chip away with some speed the stuff flakes and flies off.
I think I'll be getting a needle scaler before next winter though so I can crawl around under my car with goggles and a face shield and get the rest of my undercoating off.
Thanks for the tip.
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How much of that undercoat got in your eyes lol. Yes nothing beats a needle scaler. I also used a air chisel with blunt tip that I made. The shaking really takes off the big stuff quick and the blunt tip wont ding the metal. How many needles did you blow through already. Take it from me remove that small piece inside by the air hammer right away before it bounces around in there for too long. I think I swept up about 40 lbs of dirt and undercoat when I did that. Of course I had my car on a rotiserie at the time much easier, my days of crawling in the dirt are over lol, did enough of that in the military. Good luck.
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A wood chissle Dave? LOL! My god man, that's hardcore...No wonder you're all beat up.
Geezus..Start callin ya Yoder or Jebediah. Roll on with your Amish bad self!
Russ, no doubt on the projectile undercoating. Had a nice pair of wildcat goggles covering the eyes, but dinging that stuff off was like going face first through a meteor field. Needles are holding up pretty good. I have a ancient Ingersoll Rand scaler that's been impossible to kill for about 10 years now. Next car........110% sure it will sitting on a rotisserie. I spend more time on my back than a......well, nevermind, not going there.
Geezus..Start callin ya Yoder or Jebediah. Roll on with your Amish bad self!
Russ, no doubt on the projectile undercoating. Had a nice pair of wildcat goggles covering the eyes, but dinging that stuff off was like going face first through a meteor field. Needles are holding up pretty good. I have a ancient Ingersoll Rand scaler that's been impossible to kill for about 10 years now. Next car........110% sure it will sitting on a rotisserie. I spend more time on my back than a......well, nevermind, not going there.
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Awwweee.....Dave!...That black road runner is SICK!!! DAMN!! I love Black w/Flat black!!
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Tornado's just over a week ago and now this.......Just what the Hell is going on???
Piled up about a foot yesterday..Driving to work today and all the Robins that migrated back up here recently, had no clue what to do. They were all in hanging out in the middle of the road. Snow is too deep to go waltzing through the yard. Could be they were so damn depressed about the shitty weather they decided it was just time to off themselves..Can't say I really blame them
Ah well, got a chance yesterday and tonight to fire up the snowmobile once again and go tear up the back 40..In between all that I found some time to peg away at the roadrunner..
Got the cowl drilled, fitted and for the most part welded on.
Piled up about a foot yesterday..Driving to work today and all the Robins that migrated back up here recently, had no clue what to do. They were all in hanging out in the middle of the road. Snow is too deep to go waltzing through the yard. Could be they were so damn depressed about the shitty weather they decided it was just time to off themselves..Can't say I really blame them
Ah well, got a chance yesterday and tonight to fire up the snowmobile once again and go tear up the back 40..In between all that I found some time to peg away at the roadrunner..
Got the cowl drilled, fitted and for the most part welded on.
72Satellite440
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-Nice Black RR-
-Holy crap you got snow again...gah
-That cowl looks great prop
-Holy crap you got snow again...gah
-That cowl looks great prop
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