1972 Duster Project - Back From The Pasture

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We did our first show with it last weekend. It was an open street show, about 300 cars there. Jr. had a blast, as did I.
Best comment of the day, "Why does it have three pedals"? I had to elbow Jr. to keep from laughing out loud.
I responded, "It's a millennial anti theft device".
 
John_Lemon said:
We did our first show with it last weekend. It was an open street show, about 300 cars there. Jr. had a blast, as did I.
Best comment of the day, "Why does it have three pedals"? I had to elbow Jr. to keep from laughing out loud.
I responded, "It's a millennial anti theft device".
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I get a good kick out of people asking me what are all the shift levers for on my 48 Willys CJ-2A.
It has one for the trans, and two for the transfer case. It will have an another one one day when I put the overdrive in it.
 
John_Lemon said:
Got the hood pins in, D-Door glass and trim in, and the trunk finished.
I know several will curse me for Raptor lining the trunk but it was the best solution for this project.
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Hey I have a question. How did you go about prepping the trunk? I'm currently attempting it on my Barracuda and it just seems like a never ending project. Feels like cleaning the trunk well enough for paint is going to take as long as the rest of the build combined. Any tips on how you got it all prepped? Especially in the hard to reach areas like the wheel wells and all that.
 
ESP47 said:
Hey I have a question. How did you go about prepping the trunk? I'm currently attempting it on my Barracuda and it just seems like a never ending project. Feels like cleaning the trunk well enough for paint is going to take as long as the rest of the build combined. Any tips on how you got it all prepped? Especially in the hard to reach areas like the wheel wells and all that.
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You're not kidding. Ours had pretty deep surface rust on the low areas but not rotten. We spent a day or two wire wheeling the **** out of it then painted the rust areas with POR 15, then Raptor liner over that. If you're going to paint it like factory, it's a **** ton more work. We cut a corner with it due to schedule. Still looks great today. Hard as a rock.
Kueneman may have something to chime in with here, not sure what condition their trunk was in.
 
John_Lemon said:
You're not kidding. Ours had pretty deep surface rust on the low areas but not rotten. We spent a day or two wire wheeling the **** out of it then painted the rust areas with POR 15, then Raptor liner over that. If you're going to paint it like factory, it's a **** ton more work. We cut a corner with it due to schedule. Still looks great today. Hard as a rock.
Kueneman may have something to chime in with here, not sure what condition their trunk was in.
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Ok at least I'm not the only one struggling with it. I'm open to cutting corners at this point and just getting something down so I can forget about it. The raptor liner, is it really hard to clean like the other poster was saying?
 
ESP47 said:
Ok at least I'm not the only one struggling with it. I'm open to cutting corners at this point and just getting something down so I can forget about it. The raptor liner, is it really hard to clean like the other poster was saying?
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Not at all. It get's dusty now and then but nothing a blast of air and a damp rag won't clear up.
Ours still looks like the day we laid it down. Hard as nails.
 
John_Lemon said:
You're not kidding. Ours had pretty deep surface rust on the low areas but not rotten. We spent a day or two wire wheeling the **** out of it then painted the rust areas with POR 15, then Raptor liner over that. If you're going to paint it like factory, it's a **** ton more work. We cut a corner with it due to schedule. Still looks great today. Hard as a rock.
Kueneman may have something to chime in with here, not sure what condition their trunk was in.
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Wire brushed the **** out of it. Cut a few pieces out that were rotten and welded in new. Flipped it on its side and Kaelyn blasted the areas where we just could not get to metal with the the wire wheel then epoxy primered it and painted it with the car. Oh and the wire brush was a four-inch nodded type running on a 90° grinder not one of those wimpy ones that goes on a drill
 
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