6.1 Hemi 69 Barracuda Fastback Father Son Project
Finally got around to doing something with the car.
Last few days I worked on getting the reverse lamps and housings final install done. Got the passenger door lock installed, adjusted and working well. Decided to install the Tail light assemblies. They are from PG Classics, I put the Digitails LED conversions in them. Those all went together with not much of a fight or swearing...
Then I fit the Deck Lid Trim Panel... what a pain in the ***. The mounting holes in my deck lid didn't line up so several rounds of marking and test fitting and re-drilling. This was not the original deck lid to the car. I couldn't find a good non-rusted out 69 lid so we used a nice 68 lid that I was able to find. Nothing ever fits like it should and this deck lid and Trim panel and tail lights all leave room for improvement... ugh. Oh well, not going to worry about any of it now. Going to move on to something else to keep moving. Maybe down the road I'll see what can be done to match everything up better. Need to blackout the area of the taillight housings adjacent to the black of the trim panel. The housings come all chrome. They are very nice pieces. The chrome is really nice and seem really well made.
Tight quarters in my garage for photography... but here's a couple pics. Not too bad but I did manage to make a couple inside out dings in the brightwork of the trim panel. No matter how slow you go and no matter how careful you are, these aftermarket trim panels are very soft and very thin. Most people won't notice unless I point to them, so I won't point. ;-)
Side note:
When our son graduates from UW this June, we will be selling our home of the last 20+ years and will be moving out of gray, wet, high cost of living Western WA and over to Dry and affordable Eastern WA.
No more shitty traffic either. Will definitely be somewhere closer to our fifth wheel on Blue Lake.
Grant County, Ephrata, Soap Lake, Moses Lake area. Lots of wide open spaces.
Plan is to find a nice house with a nice shop... 40x60 shop minimum on at least 1.5 acres or more.
If we find the right house and property without a shop, I wouldn't mind building the shop myself.
Then I could build it exactly how I want it... we will see...
Finally got around to doing something with the car.
Last few days I worked on getting the reverse lamps and housings final install done. Got the passenger door lock installed, adjusted and working well. Decided to install the Tail light assemblies. They are from PG Classics, I put the Digitails LED conversions in them. Those all went together with not much of a fight or swearing...
Then I fit the Deck Lid Trim Panel... what a pain in the ***. The mounting holes in my deck lid didn't line up so several rounds of marking and test fitting and re-drilling. This was not the original deck lid to the car. I couldn't find a good non-rusted out 69 lid so we used a nice 68 lid that I was able to find. Nothing ever fits like it should and this deck lid and Trim panel and tail lights all leave room for improvement... ugh. Oh well, not going to worry about any of it now. Going to move on to something else to keep moving. Maybe down the road I'll see what can be done to match everything up better. Need to blackout the area of the taillight housings adjacent to the black of the trim panel. The housings come all chrome. They are very nice pieces. The chrome is really nice and seem really well made.
Tight quarters in my garage for photography... but here's a couple pics. Not too bad but I did manage to make a couple inside out dings in the brightwork of the trim panel. No matter how slow you go and no matter how careful you are, these aftermarket trim panels are very soft and very thin. Most people won't notice unless I point to them, so I won't point. ;-)
Side note:
When our son graduates from UW this June, we will be selling our home of the last 20+ years and will be moving out of gray, wet, high cost of living Western WA and over to Dry and affordable Eastern WA.
No more shitty traffic either. Will definitely be somewhere closer to our fifth wheel on Blue Lake.
Grant County, Ephrata, Soap Lake, Moses Lake area. Lots of wide open spaces.
Plan is to find a nice house with a nice shop... 40x60 shop minimum on at least 1.5 acres or more.
If we find the right house and property without a shop, I wouldn't mind building the shop myself.
Then I could build it exactly how I want it... we will see...