65 Barracuda daily driver
"Salma" turned 59 years old today! Built 4/29/1965 in Hamtramck. Hopefully I'll have all the bodywork done by the time she turns 60...
I'm still chasing an ATF leak. It's still at that spot where the pan has a little cut out for the park lock housing. I think that modern gasket is not made for those early ones. At least it's not leaking from the neutral safety switch anymore! While I was under the car I installed the transmission-to-engine braces and that little inspection cover plate that I got at Spring Fling.
Anyways, I finally got started on some body work again. I bought this deck lid a long time ago and at some point I stripped the paint down to bare metal on the exterior side and sprayed it with self-etching primer. Someone had painted it purple and that paint was pretty thin, so now I sanded the interior down to where I feel comfortable that self-etching primer will be stick to it. It still needs a bit of bodywork inside and out, but I hope soon I can finally test out my Fuji turbine/ HVLP paint gun soon. After that I'm gonna tackle the hood that I just got from the junkyard and the both fenders (that are from the same yard).
"Salma" turned 59 years old today! Built 4/29/1965 in Hamtramck. Hopefully I'll have all the bodywork done by the time she turns 60...
I'm still chasing an ATF leak. It's still at that spot where the pan has a little cut out for the park lock housing. I think that modern gasket is not made for those early ones. At least it's not leaking from the neutral safety switch anymore! While I was under the car I installed the transmission-to-engine braces and that little inspection cover plate that I got at Spring Fling.
Anyways, I finally got started on some body work again. I bought this deck lid a long time ago and at some point I stripped the paint down to bare metal on the exterior side and sprayed it with self-etching primer. Someone had painted it purple and that paint was pretty thin, so now I sanded the interior down to where I feel comfortable that self-etching primer will be stick to it. It still needs a bit of bodywork inside and out, but I hope soon I can finally test out my Fuji turbine/ HVLP paint gun soon. After that I'm gonna tackle the hood that I just got from the junkyard and the both fenders (that are from the same yard).
