Family Tradition

[MarPar]

97 bottles of whiskey on the wall...er beer :rolling:

 

[MarPar]

I think i found him..

 

[detmatt1]

:rolling::rolling::rolling::rolling:

 

[Gary_gtx67]

GOOD DEAL!!! The only bad thing i noticed was that you let a Ford pull it!! BBBOOOOO!! lol hahaha!! But hey what a deal!!!

 

[roadrunnerman]

96 bottles of beer on the wall.:rolling::rolling::rolling:

 

[detmatt1]

Take one down, pass it around 95 bottles of beer on the wall.....

 

[moparstuart]

94

 

[lilbitty]

That car looks familiar somehow.....:yes:

 

[MarPar]

93 bottles of beer on the wall...

 

[detmatt1]

Where in the hell is he???. I knew he was going on a vacation, but this is a bit much, don't you think?. Or his next post will be his Runner finished.

 

[Bens69PlymouthSatellite]

Hope he did not fall off a mountain or get eaten by a yeti. And 92 bottles of beer on the wall...

 

[MarPar]

Found him huntin' for food...

 

[MarPar]

Almost forgot...91 bottles of beer on the wall...91 bottles of beer...pack one up, er take one down...:angel4: pass it around...

 

[Propwash]

!!!!!!!Aloha Boys!!!!!!!!

First off, let me say thanks to all you guys for taking the time to put thought into my whereabouts. You are all truley class act gent's. It's great to be back! :grin:

Got quite a kick out of the illustrations. Don't know if i'm quite as dashing as the Grizzly Adams fella yet, but give me 30 years and a Nebraska Truck Stop souvenir isle with 200 bucks in my pocket, we'll be good to go.

The past several weeks have been simply nuts. Spent two weeks living in the Cloud Peak Wilderness Area of the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming, scaling passes, consuming 14 lbs of trail mix and beef jerky, and trying to keep Yogi out of camp. Had another 2 weeks for work up in Fairbanks Alaska trying not to get carried away by the blood sucking Teradactyl's they call mosquito's. Another week in Longview Texas, learning what it's like to survive in a oven and take the State of Texas's melt your flesh off, summer weight loss program (don't know how you do it Donny & Runner). And now, just got back from a week long music festival in Northern Wisconsin, pretty much turning me into a turn key alcoholic requiring a new liver and a couple years of dedicated detox.

So, all I can say is, it's good to be home! And glad to see you guys! As far as the Roadrunner, I wish I could say she's complete Matt, but the hollowed out neglected soul of a Plymouth still haunt's my mind (and garage), every waking moment i'm not striking an arc or dressing on a new beautiful black portion of fresh steel to her riches. I did get a small oasis of time to add to all of her Mopar glory, including fit, template, drill, and weld in the trunk pan. Also got the fill panel welded in as well. I'll be sure to post some pic's quite soon. Outer wheelhouses and trunk extentions are on the agenda hopefully starting sometime this week.

Anyway, great to be back, thanks for caring, probably did overdose but not on BBQ sauce, didn't see no yeti's Ben but met a chic in minnesota that was pretty damn close, welcome back Black Sheep (MarPar) see you must have taken a short break in desecrating the alter of the gods for awhile :app: LOL, John Rambo rocks, and .......90 bottles of beer on the wall :beermug:

 

[detmatt1]

Great now that we have all of that staightened out you can finally get back to work on that RR, time is a wasting!.:grin:
Seriously though, good to have you back brother!, I can't remember the rest of the words to that beer song anyway!, speeking of beer... :beermug: It is my birthday today and I am in the Caribbean for it, so I'm goin out for some island fun with the crew tonite!!:grin:

 

[Propwash]

Thanks, it's great to be back! and Happy Birthday! What a great place to celebrate. Hope you stumble across all kinds of fruity rum drinks tonight...Have a great one buddy!arty:

:bday3:

 

[Propwash]

Promised some pic's so here you go fella's


I coated the inner frame rails with Rust bullet and in this pick was about to put a nice few coats of 3M rubberized undercoating on top of that. Great stuff, applies well, comes with 2 pattern nozzles.

Pic of a half of the trunk pan after I fitted it in and traced the outline of the rails, brace, and spring hangers. Little trick works great for creating a visual template where to drill your holes for the plug welding

Both halves in, drilled and fitted with the help of several sheetmetal screws

Finished product after filling in the plug welds, multiple tacking the center seam and welding the pan onto the inner wheelhouses

Somewhat coming together now with the fill panel now welded in to the trunk pan. I vise gripped the rear crossmember on and started tweeking that part for proper fit up and alignment.

Some work done tonight.... Cut off the outer wheel house next to the seam from outer to inner. Just ended up initially cutting around the torque box, then once the main portion was detached, drilling out the torque box to outer wheelhouse spot welds and removing the remaining metal.

After using the old wheel house for a cutting template for the new, it was time to trim off the new part to fit accordingly. Kudo's to you guys that remove the whole wheelhouse via factory welds at the seams. There is a staggering amount of spot welds joining the two and almost a continuous stitch type welding towards the front.

 

[detmatt1]

Now thats what I'm talkin about:grin:!

 

[Bens69PlymouthSatellite]

Glad 2 C U are back! Hope you enjoyed your vacation! should have snapped a pic of the yeti chick! Any way nice work on the runner,hope mine gets there soon!

 

[MarPar]

I'm glad your gallivanting about the countryside went well!!! We missed ya, Will!!! :tongueflap: Glad you're back, and workin' on da runner!! i've had withdrawls from not seeing your magic metal work! Matt has been keeping me going with his progress the Dog, but now he's working in paradise, and i'm getn' da shakes, man!!! :rolling:

BTW my short break from the desecration activities, is coming to an end soon! :rolling::rolling: