71 duster resto'mod "driver" project...
thanx for the comments every one :glasses7:
.....and now that the snow is here Rodzilla, aaaggghhhh!! lol.... I finally have some time to update the thread.
I did get that trans leak sorted out 4spdcuda'... turns out I just had one of the lines snugged up rather than actually final tightened, think'n I was a bit too deep in the beer that night, it seems that sometimes during specific tasks throughout ones project, coffee should rather be the drug of choice lol...
Well, as the story goes, 3yrs ago, I sent the duster off for what was suppose to be a quick splash and dash paint job with the intent of just keeping her from rotting away completely until life provided the time and budget required to really dig into the project fully.... So basically, she was suppose to go away for the winter and arrive back in the spring...still sporting the "disco" body kit and all........Thus, we pulled the engine and trans so the underhood area could be painted, and sent her away to spend some time with a good friend of mines brother in law to paint the car. A few weeks later, I saw her in the half sanded state below, and figured everything was going according to plan..... this takes us to basically where things were at the completion of the first video
Well, delay after delay happened and she got dragged from place to place for a few years due to things going on in buddy's life that prevented him from attacking the project....at the time, things in my life were quite hectic, so I didn't really mind the delay.........
Fast forward to late summer of 2010... I received a phone call from the painter guy that he'd finally started digging into the project in a serious fashion, and the further he went, the worse things were looking......turns out the disco body kit, though completely made of metal, was also containing about 200 lbs of bondo....and beyond that, the entire metal structure was completely rusted out......
The good news; however, was that given he took so long to actually delve into things, he couldn't justify charging me any more money beyond the cost of materials........:blob:
a few weeks later, I saw the car like this.....
Just prior to the snow falling, I got the call that he'd finished painting the car and needed some help hanging the doors etc., so I headed down to his work to help him with this process... Once I arrived, we got started putting on the trunk and during this, he told me how he'd gotten an old guy whom he works with to help him throughout the body work phase.... He, himself is actually quite young and is use to dealing with modern cars..... any way, as a reward for this help, the old guy wanted to paint something, so my painter guy let him paint the hood, doors, and trunk a day prior to him painting the shell of the car.....
As a result, the car wound up with some tiger striping on the trunk and doors. As well, we used some different doors I had laying around, than were originally on the car, and they didn't test fit the doors prior to painting... Thus, we found that one of the doors was bowed out at the front bottom corner by about a half to 3/4 inch...
At this point, buddy said, lets just leave things rough hung for now cause I'm being pressured by the boss to get the car out of here...then I'll fix these things and paint it again next year no charge, cause I'm just not happy with this and my reputation is on the line.....he then said, but before I paint it again, I want an engine in there so I can drive it in and out of the shop without having to push it all over the place....
So, the car got towed home and stuffed into my little non heated garage and sat out there in the cold Canadian winter just teasing me.... This of course, opened up a whole new can of worms for me as I'd had no idea what I was going to use for an engine in order to pull off this feat, I figured I'd get the car back and leasurely put it back together without all these pressures....But, it was what it was, and the one thing I could do, was compile a winter projects list and get to work.......
I'll start with the dash overhaul.....
..........and there you have it, the dash as it finally went in the car :-D
thanx for the comments every one :glasses7:
.....and now that the snow is here Rodzilla, aaaggghhhh!! lol.... I finally have some time to update the thread.
I did get that trans leak sorted out 4spdcuda'... turns out I just had one of the lines snugged up rather than actually final tightened, think'n I was a bit too deep in the beer that night, it seems that sometimes during specific tasks throughout ones project, coffee should rather be the drug of choice lol...
Well, as the story goes, 3yrs ago, I sent the duster off for what was suppose to be a quick splash and dash paint job with the intent of just keeping her from rotting away completely until life provided the time and budget required to really dig into the project fully.... So basically, she was suppose to go away for the winter and arrive back in the spring...still sporting the "disco" body kit and all........Thus, we pulled the engine and trans so the underhood area could be painted, and sent her away to spend some time with a good friend of mines brother in law to paint the car. A few weeks later, I saw her in the half sanded state below, and figured everything was going according to plan..... this takes us to basically where things were at the completion of the first video
Well, delay after delay happened and she got dragged from place to place for a few years due to things going on in buddy's life that prevented him from attacking the project....at the time, things in my life were quite hectic, so I didn't really mind the delay.........
Fast forward to late summer of 2010... I received a phone call from the painter guy that he'd finally started digging into the project in a serious fashion, and the further he went, the worse things were looking......turns out the disco body kit, though completely made of metal, was also containing about 200 lbs of bondo....and beyond that, the entire metal structure was completely rusted out......
The good news; however, was that given he took so long to actually delve into things, he couldn't justify charging me any more money beyond the cost of materials........:blob:
a few weeks later, I saw the car like this.....
Just prior to the snow falling, I got the call that he'd finished painting the car and needed some help hanging the doors etc., so I headed down to his work to help him with this process... Once I arrived, we got started putting on the trunk and during this, he told me how he'd gotten an old guy whom he works with to help him throughout the body work phase.... He, himself is actually quite young and is use to dealing with modern cars..... any way, as a reward for this help, the old guy wanted to paint something, so my painter guy let him paint the hood, doors, and trunk a day prior to him painting the shell of the car.....
As a result, the car wound up with some tiger striping on the trunk and doors. As well, we used some different doors I had laying around, than were originally on the car, and they didn't test fit the doors prior to painting... Thus, we found that one of the doors was bowed out at the front bottom corner by about a half to 3/4 inch...
At this point, buddy said, lets just leave things rough hung for now cause I'm being pressured by the boss to get the car out of here...then I'll fix these things and paint it again next year no charge, cause I'm just not happy with this and my reputation is on the line.....he then said, but before I paint it again, I want an engine in there so I can drive it in and out of the shop without having to push it all over the place....
So, the car got towed home and stuffed into my little non heated garage and sat out there in the cold Canadian winter just teasing me.... This of course, opened up a whole new can of worms for me as I'd had no idea what I was going to use for an engine in order to pull off this feat, I figured I'd get the car back and leasurely put it back together without all these pressures....But, it was what it was, and the one thing I could do, was compile a winter projects list and get to work.......
I'll start with the dash overhaul.....
..........and there you have it, the dash as it finally went in the car :-D