1963 Valiant Wagon "Candy girl"

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Roadtrips in old cars with no time restraints, looking for old cars, parts, boneyards, food, meeting new people, and seeing old friends, sites you never seen before....living.
 
Princess Valiant said:
So I found that harbor freight sells a simple scaffold set up. I was looking on Craigslist and found a used one for 50 bucks.

A scaffold is just the ticket to comfortably work on the roof of a car .....

I've made an effort to work on this car at least 45 minutes a day since Jan 1.

Sanding, sanding and more sanding.
The car was originally white so I need to get the blue off for sure, and then it's a layer of teal green, that needs to go too but I might leave some of that original white enamel. This car is going to be white.

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The factory white is the best base, for your new color, leave it.
 
Thanks for the idea of using scaffolding! being cheap I'll empty a piece of skid racking and use that.
 
Hyper_pak said:
What happened to the wagon?
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I got it running and driving and barely stopping. Drove it around a farm and made a lot of dirt ruts, it has a lot of power and then a brake hose collapsed. So now it's sitting in a barn with flat tires and needing more work, like a disk brake swap.

Part 2 to come. Maybe sooner now that you ask about it.

Hope you're doing OK. :)
 
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Princess Valiant said:
I got it running and driving and barely stopping. Drove it around a farm and made a lot of dirt ruts, it has a lot of power and then a brake hose collapsed. So now it's sitting in a barn with flat tires and needing more work, like a dick brake swap.

Part 2 to come. Maybe sooner now that you ask about it.

Hope you're doing OK. :)
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Dick brakes? I would have thought a lady would use ****** brakes.
 
Princess Valiant said:
auto correct ..... stupid smart phones .....disk brake
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Auto destruct !

And spell wrecker !
I think there is an evil phone wizard laughing behind a curtain !
He has got me a few times.
This is a resurrected thread for sure.
Wagons are so cool .
 
Princess Valiant said:
I got it running and driving and barely stopping. Drove it around a farm and made a lot of dirt ruts, it has a lot of power and then a brake hose collapsed. So now it's sitting in a barn with flat tires and needing more work, like a disk brake swap.

Part 2 to come. Maybe sooner now that you ask about it.

Hope you're doing OK. :)
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I am doing fine, thank you do asking.
I just was looking at your build again and wondered what was going on.
Hope you are well.
 
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