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Project long haul...

Hi Ron, nice work. And your fellow worker looks cheerful to be a part of the project. :)

A question, was that blue tape an attempt to keep the patch in place before you tack welded it? I'd have just put a bar magnet across to keep it there. But the welds look strong.

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Looking good Ron! I have read a ton of your posts and you always have the nicest things to say about others cars, you remind me of one very nice person inside and out!

Looks like your all in on your 69!, that trunk pan looks really good, that's allot of work you have there!

Was that a 440 I saw under that tarp? Are you going to going to keep the yellow color?

I have always loved the rear tail light setup on the 69 - badass!

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Keep up the good work!
 
ron the way you are going on the car you might have to rename your thread to project short haul you are making a lot of progress on your car and looking good.
 
Great to see you on a build of your own Ron, terrific model to be bringing back to life. Don't worry how long it takes, as you know I've been at mine for a long time. When you feel like it you're out there, and when your minds not on the game it's sitting there waiting for ya. Don't let the lack of space worry you either, I can barely walk down the sides of mine in the garage, and if I need to get in the boot I have to push it out lol. Anythings doable (is that a real word). Look forward to following along and hopefully throwing some encouragement in there as you've done for me. All the best and cheers.
 
Thanks guys, im a little on the slow side, ok, maybe a lot but hope to have something worth putting in as progress soon, time in my small shop has been slow lately due to things i have to do, but im in no hurry, to look outdoors the snow seems to be in a real hurry tonight lol, i do believe ill be plowing in the AM, then ill get a picture of the old Wheel horse for propwash, its been a good tool over the years and is accustomed to this white stuff :)
Thanks to all!!!
 
TIME FOR A LITTLE PAYBACK. Wanted to let everyone know that recently I had the chance to meet Ron, Sue, and Gabby in person. I was making a delivery to a CVS DC in Ashtabula, oh. and had some spare time before my delivery time so I bobtailed over to Ron's place. I will say this, YOU WILL NOT MEET A NICER FAMILY AS THEM. Ron took me out to see his car(s). The pictures you see and the actual shape his car was in does not do justice to the work that Ron has done to this car. They let me "hang out" with them for a while and made me some sandwiches and even sent a lunch with me for in the truck. (Ron, tell Sue it was good). The wife and I are planning to make a visit with them in the NEAR future, and I can't think of any better people to spend an evening with.
 
Lotta guys on here are real stand up guy's. Both you and Ron are definitely high on that list. Mighty nice of you to swing by & visit Roger.

Progress is looking good Ron! Great to see you got a helper out there with you. She's learning, making memories, and spending time with you.....it's all priceless. I'm sure she'll remember that for a very, very long time. Keep up the good work!
 
You are making some great progress there Ron. I'm glad to see you have a "helper" too. The both of you are making some wonderful memories there.

Thanks for the updates !!!!!
 
I am really not used to this side of the resto projects with posting, hopefully i will get the hang of it soon...

Photon440 Yeas i do use the tape to do this sometimes and someone mentioned a magnet before which is probably you and if i come across one i will try it! Thank you..
MT_Mopar Thank you for the kind words, I just love the work so many do hear and they do look great to me and i can understand that some just don't have big expensive shops just as i don't but somehow, thru the love of the work we do and the cars we turn back time to, they do all look good, lots of work and time go into them as you know and inspiration is what we all need, i just tell the truth is all... I do have a 440 and im not sure of the tarp you meant right off hand, the 440 is in my old garage in parts and i do have a 73- 400 on a stand in the corner of my shop but that is what i was planning on doing for my 73 and since decided ill just stick with my SB, it has a nice cam in it and with all the 318 engines ive had in the past, the one in the 73 is pretty stout! Maybe ill put that Roger guy to work and have him help me put the 410 gears i have i bought from a buddy of Alex, Meep Meep.. It should be a good combo but i think the gas mileage will change drastically lol...

ROGER!!!! Pay back?? :) ill tell you what guys Roger is the top notch guy in my book and im very happy he enjoyed his visit with us as much as we did!!! I normally spend my time as a hermit, mountain man, loner and a few others i wont mention ive been called, a private person i reckon i am but i really was glad to have time with Roger, Im sure Vicky is every bit as cool but prettier rofl.... Ill pay back ya as said you young man lol Thanks Roger, you truly are the nice guy i thought you were, if everyone could be like you we would have less problems in the world and don't mean to put you on the spot but i would be lying to say anything different! :)

Will and Louis You two are a couple of the corner stones here with the work ive seen both you do, Always with a kind work even when things are going bad! I remember when the guy with Wills trim for the car was bouncing around his shop and scratched the car up, most would have thru him out the door and been quick enough (adrenalin projected :)) to take a picture of him flying out! and even though he let us know how he felt, he had the time to talk and explain what happen to us, something i need to remember and learn, with me im always posting on others work, not mine..

I hope i can do better and i really thought id have a couple pictures and show the final repair on the outside and bottom of the drivers side rocker, im praying the inside is good but time will tell after the floor is out, BUT i ran out of welding gas and couldn't finish it, i hope to get it soon and ill update things and maybe show some pictures from before i started this thread.. i think past work will be easier to show with what im doing now here as i find the pictures of previous work and get them in a folder of there own so i have something to keep (burn on a disk) and IF i ever do sell this, anyone can see what was done, put in ect....... I wish i could get new parts with things i have repaired but i do what i can do, some things can be repaired and if i can do it right and i know its solid and the rust is over, This ill do, its fun!
I do thank you all and Will, I have not forgot about that picture of the Wheel horse! I just haven't needed it yet even with the snow, only have at the most 5 in and i just cant see getting it out, If i had a larger shop to keep it in id be ok but this year, its under a tarp by the porch ready to go to make it simpliar...
 
MT_Mopar I thought id better mention i do have a 383 that i have stored away i got with the car, I have pics of it hear somewhere but not on this dang laptop, Its a 69 but NOT original to this car, it has the 906 heads on it and looks clean! That, again time will tell :)
 
Hi guys, i did say i was slow and have some things going on here but i decided to go to my little get a way and get some work done... ill post these updates for some of it with sand blasting to repairs, I have one part coming from our fellow member Mark (MOPAR MARK, and i thank ya!!!) and today i received a set of turn signal and parking lights that our Will (PROPWASH and i thank ya!!!) and some cheese that i cant wait to get into!! This place never ceases to amaze me with the fellow ship here!

The first ones are some blasting i did to finish up outside and top of d-side rocker panel, I wont know until i get the floor out but reaching up and in on the inside of the rocker, it sure is promising! I will have to replace a floor support, Roger told me it looked bad and peeling back that part of the floor, he was right!, peeling back was using the Blair spot cutting tools, something Will told me about and they are worth the money, i wish i new where, if you can to sharpen them.... The last picture i had already did some work on the back...

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The next ones if i have them right is a bad spot that i cut out and then made a patch to weld in, kind of self explaining but i did clean out the entire rocker (great fun) I had a wire and hook, and used the AC to blow it out but to get it completely clean was a hoot... I have the Eastwoods Rust Encapsulator, supposed to be good stuff for stopping, converting rust permanently, the inside of this rocker is covered and the same stuff did my 1/2 rail i welded into the frame in the back, with that i used a homemade sprayer and line job and it took way more then it should have because the smallest holes i could drill are larger then the fitting at the end of this Eastwoods outfit you'll see, using the mirror worked great here but taking a decent picture of the inside using it, well, it just does not work! And i should say all the sand blasting i did was after i ground down where i was working and fixed this spot, I ran out of welding gas so i had to stop but did take pictures and now its done, im just not sure what pictures i have its been so long, im not used to this part of resto threads lol.... One picture i couldn't help but set Q-skin on and see where i may be cutting later, That part impressed the wife some :) and a couple shots before and after doing the inside of what part of the quarter is staying with Eastwoods rust fixer-uper..

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Some pictures at the end is i guess you call it the door hinge pillar, but there was a couple places i thought i had better fix, I did get the inside sprayed with Eastwood and i thought i would include these repairs, I sure hope the inside of the rocker is really good, its the one thing that worried me from the start on a car that truly was put out behind the barn to rot!, It's also what will make this the best thing i have as far as fun, it was on its dieing mode and now its getting lol, probably already more new metal on it then my Kia, i like the idea and the guy i got it from, he lied, he bent me over but im bending back and have his address tacked to my radio room wall and i will Lord willing show him what happens if you decide to make it happen, not happy with him but, I didn't personally go to look at it but explained what i didn't want to have to do, which by the way THAT im doing now, and im glad im where im at with it, heck, a couple more years or so i may get it done! I hope he doesn't kick off before me, he does need pictures of what im doing...

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I know these may not be in order, im sorry for that, i expect there is probably more because when i get in a down mood this is where i go and ive always said if i only work an hour, that's a hour work im not doing later, outside of that little shop, I can get juiced up great getting on here and seeing what everyone else is doing! There is somethings ive done i will be re-doing im sure, if i cant have this right, i don't want to do it and ive sand blasted and now its rusting again lol, i can handle that part but Ive learned im not blasting anything unless i can get it taken care of now... I just have to be very careful with what i get, blasting and epoxy primer would be the way to go even with small areas like i do, and then sometimes don't get back at it, but that stuff even in the what i call popcans are as pricy as this Eastwoods stuff, I still need to get busy with the POR-15, ill get there.... until next time i hope ya all enjoy the updates as much as i do yours! and trust me, I look FORWARD to seeing these updates from you all! keeps me goin!!! :)

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I have a lot of work ahead of me, as you all do, Im glad i have so many friends gathered here doing the same stuff, What my wife and i T-shirts from Joey says, "real men drive MOPARS", You have to be to go to the extreams we do! To bad the other car lover's don't think that way! we really are if i can be so bold..... THE top of the line in car enthusiasts!!
 
I see that im not a Gold member as of a new day, welllll, It's CHRISTMAS and im doing by best to build a Road Runner sooo, It will wait, lol It's-ah-gonna have to fellers! lol, i love it, all the parts, work and "stuff" we need to work on them, it can wait for a time... I will support this site though, it has to be!!!!!! Gezzz, kind of feel naked as that jay bird though... :)
 
not much looks better or shows more progress than getting that quarter skin on. That pic sure looks familiar though.....
 

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lol, Thats not fair! You have break drums!!!! If i had the room i wouldn't have the springs and diff under there, going to be fun painting i bet, at least i got to blast them outside, i have literately took shovel fulls of sand, crushed glass and aluminum oxide outside from the rest of the blasting ive done, maybe its good i have a gravel floor, cement floor i would be building quite the pile outside where as now the "gravel" drive gets most of it lol.. Thanks Dave...

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question, is that from AMD? if so, any problems with it? did you cut the old quarter right where its sitting (top of original)?
 
the skins were from Year One, and the trunk extensions were AMD, fit like a glove.Here's how my guy cut the quarters.

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FINALLY! I've been patiently waiting to see you dig into this project, knowing a little of the backstory you've told me, and man does it feel great to see you diving in! You're one hell of a guy Ron, and seeing that you've come so far before you even touched the car makes this project just that much more special. Keep up the great work!! :icon_thumleft:
 
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