got her home

[joehalford01]

So I got the 65 home yesterday, took some pics for you guys.

You can see in this one the headlight is busted. The tread (went down to the steel cord) on the passenger tire came completely off while it was being towed, snapped up, and shattered the headlight. I'm glad I didn't listen to my buddy and "jus drive it man" lol.










As soon as the tow truck driver was pulling out of the drive, i took the tow mirrors off and added an old peep mirror, then replaced the headlight with one i had on hand.


I sold the rear wheels from my 63 that i had but i still had the fronts and the tires are in better shape so i threw those on real quick as well. I don't intend to keep them on but it'll work as a temp fix (it looks good raked but the wheels are way to small, they look lost with all that head room).






I also figured out what all that horrible drivetrain noise was that i thought was a bad transmission. The previous owner seemed to think that a wire coat hanger would be perfect for securing the exhaust system to the driver side trailing arm so that the muffler could rest snuggly on the driveshaft....



I plan to do the brakes first (after i fix the muffler...with my cutting torch lol); i'll have some questions for you soon.