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Cleaning up my SS and TI gauges
Update 11/23/09: I started back in on the SS so I thought another repost about working on it would be good. I am especially proud of my efforts on this post and the one that followed it. I have spent …...
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SS Bodywork 5: the engine compartment
I have been looking at this car for 2 years now, in pictures after sending $4500 to the seller in December of 2007, trying to come up with a coherent plan for tackling it, and since then as a sculpture...
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Bodywork 7: floor it!
Two years is a long time to wait plan and ponder but here I am seeing what has for so long seemed like something consigned to some later date. Bill, old friend and recently arrived shop mate agreed to...
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Body work 7 and Fasteners 2: saturday at the shop
I slept in until 10 am this morning! Two cups of coffee and the enthusiasm generated by seeing all the nice SS’s on the market I’ve written about this week saw me rushing out the door by 11am to work …...
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Bodywork 8: a few more hours for Bill, a giant leap for me
Note: There is a link at the end of this post to Dante. Don’t miss it if you like to see the process of classic sports car body restoration and construction. Especially not to be missed is the SZ...
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Body work 9: rusty rocker remediation begins
I may regret not taking it to a professional at some point but I just can’t bring myself to let someone else do this job. The whole point of this exercise -restoring the SS- was to learn a bunch of …...
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Body work 10: fixing cut corners
Another giant leap. All it took is the happy convergence of a few things namely: a rudimentary understanding of welding, the realization that ‘good enough’ is good enough, and, well if it comes out...
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Bodywork 11: extreme rust encapsulator
I got to the shop early this morning to continue some work I started Friday after work-painting most of the inside of the front end with rust encapsulating chassis paint. I finished wire-wheeling all...
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Bodywork 12: good enough is good enough
The title of this one has become my mantra. Welding is getting easier incrementally, as is shaping the metal. As I cut little areas open, remove the dead metal and add new in I am always telling myself...
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Bodywork 13: win-win rear end repair
It was nearly 2 years ago that I started work on this corner of the car -was the first body work I attempted. Back then I didn’t really know what to do about some of the problems I faced, but …...
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Bodywork 14: Somewhere in the early part of the middle
I have to fess up. I started this blog post yesterday and then chickened out and stopped working on it because I felt a little embarassed by the quality of my work. I feel like the rust repair is...
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SS Veglia gauge restore part 2 -finale-
I am back from vacation but need a few days to see what’s going on and get back into the swing of things so another rerun for you all. Originally posted 7/28/09: Following on my success with the Super...
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