68 GT convertible project
It has been a couple years since I've been on here. A little progress has been made on the Dart but it's basically just been sitting. The bank account needed to recover a little bit and I lost interest in it for awhile. I've been working on it again the last few weeks though. Not doing anything major, just cleaning up fasteners, a few brackets and a driveshaft. It looks like it was July of 2014 where I left off...
At the time I didn't own a truck so I borrowed my dad's Dakota and took it to Columbus to haul home parts. I ended up buying a lot of misc interior/exterior trim pieces but the main things were a GTS hood, fenders and trunk drop offs. I was able to get them back to the hotel in their boxes but it wasn't ideal.
I had to haul everything up into the hotel room for the night. I wonder what the maid thought when she saw all those body parts in the room? Before the 9-10 hour drive home, we spent an hour in the parking lot playing truck bed Tetris. We ended up taking the fenders out of their boxes and setting the hood on top.(supporting it with luggage, folding chairs exc...so it wouldn't put pressure on the fenders) The hood ended up flush with the top of the bed and we got an extra 1.5mpg on the way home.
The trunk drop offs only had some pin holes in them so there was no need to replace the entire part.(I'm no body expert so I'm just going by what I'm told...this is the way they wanted to do the repair)
The quarter panel to rocker area was fixed...
During disassembly, only two fasteners broke. The threaded end of the E-brake cable twisted off and the nut at the end of the rocker pulled out. Here is the repair...
It has been a couple years since I've been on here. A little progress has been made on the Dart but it's basically just been sitting. The bank account needed to recover a little bit and I lost interest in it for awhile. I've been working on it again the last few weeks though. Not doing anything major, just cleaning up fasteners, a few brackets and a driveshaft. It looks like it was July of 2014 where I left off...
At the time I didn't own a truck so I borrowed my dad's Dakota and took it to Columbus to haul home parts. I ended up buying a lot of misc interior/exterior trim pieces but the main things were a GTS hood, fenders and trunk drop offs. I was able to get them back to the hotel in their boxes but it wasn't ideal.
I had to haul everything up into the hotel room for the night. I wonder what the maid thought when she saw all those body parts in the room? Before the 9-10 hour drive home, we spent an hour in the parking lot playing truck bed Tetris. We ended up taking the fenders out of their boxes and setting the hood on top.(supporting it with luggage, folding chairs exc...so it wouldn't put pressure on the fenders) The hood ended up flush with the top of the bed and we got an extra 1.5mpg on the way home.
The trunk drop offs only had some pin holes in them so there was no need to replace the entire part.(I'm no body expert so I'm just going by what I'm told...this is the way they wanted to do the repair)
The quarter panel to rocker area was fixed...
During disassembly, only two fasteners broke. The threaded end of the E-brake cable twisted off and the nut at the end of the rocker pulled out. Here is the repair...