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Originally Posted by rgunlock
Still watching you accumulate a lot of cool parts. I've got to admit it was kind of sad to see the front end taken back off. Looked so sharp, but you gotta do what you've gotta do!
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Thanks Rick that’s nice of you to say, it’s like building the car several times over before the final assembly. I know the body shop sure blew it apart and then put it back together a bunch, partly because some crazy person wanted 2 hoods!
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Originally Posted by CG
This is one of the threads Im constantly checking in on. Very nostalgic for me as a kid that lived and breathed cars from the 60's and 70's (Ill be 63 next month). But after saying that I still cant believe I never saw the orange headers before. I have boxes and boxes of car magazines from back in the day. Makes me want to start going through them again, probably should some day any way and put them in some kind of order so when I die and my family tosses them they fall neatly into the recycle bin haha.
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Thanks CG, glad you’re enjoying the build. You’ve got me by a few months, I turned 62 last July. I wouldn’t say orange headers were very common, mostly black, white (my 2nd choice, just like Grumpy had) and chrome come to mind. I’ve got a buddy that took his car magazines and dedicated a reading room full of magazine stands and such, it’s pretty cool.
The decision was made, I’m moving forward with a Hurst Ram 4 style inline shifter. Posted earlier was this setup of our Mr. Gasket V-gate on the Muncie (I really like this shifter, btw). What wasn’t mentioned is that I’d also put our old Hurst Ram 4 shifter with a nice new t-handle and reverse knob in the vise (vertically, not leaning as pictured). Both were set up enough that you could work the shifters a little, kind of a comparison deal, racing engine sounds being totally optional.
After a few friends as well as my wife tried them out, everyone felt that the Hurst was going to be easier to live with.
Side note; Finding some correct usable boots (a big surprise to me after years of looking) made this a possibility. Also, not mentioned earlier is that Mrs. 7dee2 could not work the V-gate at all. Her lady hands are too small to reach the pull-up lever to actuate 1st & 2nd gear. Not a problem for her with the Hurst shifter.