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NoNeck · 06-02-2011, 03:34 PM

R&K's71 - I've been able to get a few things done this week. It has been reaching about 97 degrees all week here in Chattanooga Tennessee... too hot for an old man!

It was scary, but I started painting the shop signs on the doors. My son and I wanted to build an old "shop truck" from the day we brought the old '68 home. I wanted the signs to look like they have been on the truck for years, so my next step is to rough it up. I'm not a sign painter, but I think it turned out pretty good for rattle cans. I'm going to add a shop name (Booger Bros?) and a fake phone number. Also "24 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE" on each step fender.

Over the weekend I traded a muffler shop a business card design/printing for an exhaust update. I had purchased a couple of Cherry Bomb mufflers from Summit a few weeks ago. I wanted to have the exhaust turned down at each rear fender. He used custom bent 2.5" tubing and new hangers to get exactly what I wanted. Sounds really good... not too loud or too quiet. That's my crazy Manx Bobtail cat "Bob" in the foreground. He would not get out of the picture.

Today, I have been working on my gauge cluster. It's the first time that I have ever removed one of these clusters, but I researched some tips from this forum and everything went really smooth. Except the choke knob... it didn't have a set screw like the wiper knob. It evidently screws off, but all it would do is spin. I finally got it off, so now I am restoring the cluster.

More tomorrow...

NoNeck

06-02-2011, 03:34 PM	#44
NoNeck Registered User Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Chattanooga, TN Posts: 1,108	Re: Driving "Miss Daisy" - 68 SWB Stepper R&K's71 - I've been able to get a few things done this week. It has been reaching about 97 degrees all week here in Chattanooga Tennessee... too hot for an old man! It was scary, but I started painting the shop signs on the doors. My son and I wanted to build an old "shop truck" from the day we brought the old '68 home. I wanted the signs to look like they have been on the truck for years, so my next step is to rough it up. I'm not a sign painter, but I think it turned out pretty good for rattle cans. I'm going to add a shop name (Booger Bros?) and a fake phone number. Also "24 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE" on each step fender. Over the weekend I traded a muffler shop a business card design/printing for an exhaust update. I had purchased a couple of Cherry Bomb mufflers from Summit a few weeks ago. I wanted to have the exhaust turned down at each rear fender. He used custom bent 2.5" tubing and new hangers to get exactly what I wanted. Sounds really good... not too loud or too quiet. That's my crazy Manx Bobtail cat "Bob" in the foreground. He would not get out of the picture. Today, I have been working on my gauge cluster. It's the first time that I have ever removed one of these clusters, but I researched some tips from this forum and everything went really smooth. Except the choke knob... it didn't have a set screw like the wiper knob. It evidently screws off, but all it would do is spin. I finally got it off, so now I am restoring the cluster. More tomorrow... NoNeck Attached Images __________________ 2016 RAM Laramie HEMI 1966 Fairlane GT/A, 390/335 HP If it costs you a dollar to make a friend, KEEP THE DOLLAR. If it costs you a friend to make a dollar, KEEP THE FRIEND.