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Re: A '62 has to get back on the road
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Heck, a bone stock 305 out of a late 70's GM car was double the power @ a fraction of the cost. Same w/the trans gearing. Later model stuff has much better gear splits & synchonizers @ a lower cost. We'll keep the Cabriolet close to Oe (OE block, Brumfield hi-compression head, FSI 12v ignition, '39 synchronized 3spd, Mitchell OD). If I find a coupe... V8 w/a 5spd.
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Re: A '62 has to get back on the road
I don't want to afford a Burtz motor, it costs around €12,000 assembled in Europe, no way. The original engine, rebuilt with new bearing shells and gaskets, different cylinder head with 6:1, camshaft, carburetor and exhaust manifold, should put out 60-70hp, enough for 50-60 mph on small country roads. I dream of road trips with overnight stays on small country roads, quite comfortably. We will clarify that in the autumn. Sure a little flathead or a 289, I'd even have that lying around, that would be the easier way and a lot cheaper, I'm tempted to build the car with a 4Banger, It's gonna hurt my wallet
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Done, the Hood is now painted, I sanded the mistakes wet and polished them again, there are still light scratches from wet sanding in the neon light, you can't see any of that in daylight, let's see if I can fix it.
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Re: A '62 has to get back on the road
Nice. You're making some good time getting the sheet-metal from old to new.
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Re: A '62 has to get back on the road
That hood looks great! Your project is really coming along!
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Very nice. I hope I can get my hood to look that good.
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Thank you for your words, I always have to walk longer distances to reach my goal, but the goal is within sight.
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You really do knock iy out the park Harald.
Looks beautiful. Just to hijack the thread a bit…. My friend Dennis built his 66 on a 2015 Nascar truck with all the bits. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Thank you, yes I was already looking at the pictures with envy, a completely different level, beautiful truck, very nice details, say hello to me.
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It goes on, I wrote that the Hood still had fine Scratches from wet sanding, it didn't let me rest, it didn't get better with polishing, I wet sanded it again with 1500, 3000 and 6000 and then polished it once, now I am satisfied and will polish the hood when it is assembled. At the moment it's very sluggish, my mom was sick and we were always driving back and forth, I had promised my wife to help remodel her sewing room. But I started with a side panel of the truck bed.
Annoying is the quarter panel doesn't fit, the flange edge is about 50° wrong, which I had to correct and the corners don't fit properly, that was also adjusted.
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There was still a patch for the lower wheel arches.
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Mann, ich bin soooo sauer auf die schlechte Qualität von Patch- und Reproduktionsartikeln. Wir alle wissen, dass es genauso viel Arbeit ist, einen guten Artikel zu machen, wie es ist, einen schlechten Artikel zu machen. Manchmal möchte ich den Unternehmen Blut abnehmen, die diese Produkte herstellen, die dann viele Stunden zum Aussortieren benötigen. Sie werden es jedoch sicherlich alles richtig machen. Wie immer liebe ich es, Ihre Arbeit und Arbeitsmoral zu beobachten.
Rian.
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Thanks for your kind words, I agree, it's annoying to adapt the bad parts, but there are no alternatives, we all manage to build awesome trucks out of them over and over again.
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Re: A '62 has to get back on the road
It's slowly Progressing, I had to make a new Spacer Strut, because where the Strut was welded to the side part, the Wheel Arches are also rusted through, so Patches are also needed.
The Quarter Panel is Welded in, the weld seam I lead filled this time, well.... the rest was smoothed out with "Lead" on 2K Epoxid Basic. Now I can put Epoxy Primer on it tomorrow.
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Vorbereitung für Epoxid Grundierung.
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Applied the epoxy primer today.
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Oooohhhh My Word !!
That looks amazing Harald. Well done.
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damn! looking great!!!
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The Hood is assembled, I had to exchange the Hinges for new ones, the old Hinges pushed the Hood up, after it was closed, now everything fits.
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Re: A '62 has to get back on the road
Looks great. The body work is impressive.
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Re: A '62 has to get back on the road
Well done.
These last photos look almost like a model set up.
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It could almost be a model.
Today I wanted to sanding the primer, it hasn't dried through yet, maybe it's a bit too thick, tomorrow I'll put the infrared heater over it.
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Today there was a Setback..... I put the Infrared Heater over the Panel. After some time there were Bubbles on the edge of the Bodyfiller, the Temperature was 50°/ approx.125 degrees Fahrenheit. This happened in 2 places, I could simply peel off the areas with the spatula. The rest was fine, something was wrong with the hardener and filler. I started all over again and filled with new Bodyfiller the spots.
#@€#% happens. Better now than later.
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Unfortunately as you say….. this happens.
And rather now, than later in a year or more. Good luck with correcting it.
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I'm sure I made a mistake when mixing the Hardener and Body Filler, so today we made something nice for it.
My Buddy Sold his 60 Apache to Hamburg and took it to the Buyer, I drove with him and took it back, nice Road Trip and great Weather.
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