Acquired all the parts i was missing to make it a complete car. Added a Body Ground to the battery under the hood. ![]() Bolted down the starter that was just kind of dangling down with 1 bolt in it and a frayed tore up wire kinda stuck on it. Eliminated the push button start run around and installed the proper neutral safety switch so the car would start off the key. rewired up the electric fuel pump and eliminated the atrocious looking "glowing rainbow missile switches" that were there originally. This was the single most time consuming aspect of the whole deal, and was the one major major hang up hindering progress. The under the hood was a nightmare, total spaghetti cobbled up with stuff that god knows what it went to. Totally redid the wiring from the ground up both under the hood and under the dash. Removed the old discolored rotted out windshield and cracking rubber seal and wire brushed the channel out and sealed it in preparation to put in the new windshield and fresh rubber. Removed the chopped up Ralley dash and replaced it with a Dash that I refurbished and painted up to look like new. Ripped out the junk jeep bucket seats and non correct console and replace with a Nice Condition Bench Seat Installed new transmission and B&M Quicksilver ratchet shifter I Just want to capture the spirit of a time long past in my own unique way.įor long windedness sake I'm just going to do bullet points from here on out of things ive completed and let the pictures do the talking. My goal is to make this car look like it could have looked in 1970 if the owner had done some custom work to "make it his" I will not be douching it up with modern stuff that doesn't belong, but I'm also not shooting for 100% accuracy. I'm not trying to make a show car, and I'm not going for a 100% Factory nut and bolt restoration. This car was originally a slant 6 car and is not numbers matching or anything special like that. ![]() very dirty, very musty, but VERY fixable.īefore i go any further I'm going to highlight my goals for this car so there's no confusion. ![]() Hood was slightly bent, headlight bezel was cracked up, no carpet, headliner was just plain cardboard, and the floor had some minor Swiss cheese. When it comes to the body, the car wasn't awful, needs some quarter panel work behind the wheel wells, and the car had lots of dents on the front and rear valance as well as the fenders. Had the wrong radiator in it, dash wiring and under engine harness was a total cobble job, starter wasn't bolted down, and the bell-housing was missing 2 bolts. the exhaust consisted of 2 muffler pipes dangling/dragging on the ground attached directly to the headers. It had seats out of a jeep halfway bolted in it, a chopped up rally dash with damaged gauge clusters, an automatic shifter console sitting on the floor with a shoddily "bolted down" Rusted out B&M Shifter and nothing worked, No lights, no turn signals, no gauges, car wouldn't go into park, leaked oil, transmission fluid, and coolant. I got this car early this spring, She was in pretty rough shape mechanically.
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