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Roof in really nice shape….a surprise. Frame rails, outer rockers and floors toast ….not a surprise. Firewall, spare tire well and inner fenders are nice..surprise. Tunnel and inner rocker area in great shape, perfect to attach new floors. Have rails, need both floors. I’ve seen gnose cars trim lips off the rear to allow wider/lower tires/suspension. Debating on leaving them trimmed off, or replace entire rear quarters to have the complete outer rear well.

So any color other then heat cycled metal isn’t technically correct.?

Not that weren’t expecting

Dang, Those almost look like bare metal

Too many projects are IMG_2691.movIMG_2691.movdelaying this RHD hs30… Heading to the wetblasting area to determine if anything is left to work with……

Been a while since showing 2446 bones…and she got good bones. Slowly finding time and discipline to prioritize some shop time. It is fun putting a few peices on the rear, dash will be coming out to recover. Had been a while since I have inverted to disconnect heater control cables….throttle lever cable at top of the gas pedal assembly…etc. rear panel is too dark, debating to reshoot to lighter shade….

Looking at the “darkness” of the engine block blue versus the “darker” color of exhaust manifold, I can see the argument for manifold being darker then a light gray…..

Quite the contrast in colors This is a later manifold testing colors….same material as motorman7 with tubes in place… looks much darker with contrast…

Zspert, Care to share your opinion of a closer to “right” color? Will be traveling this road shortly… Amazon has a can of graphite heading my way already. I do wonder is there consensus for color of the manifold, that will last a few dozen/hundred heat cycles.

That person made a wise decision!!!

Easily fixed at this point.

Amazing what hides behind layers of metal….those repairs look nice. What kind of rotation device is that? I really like that.

Arguably the rarest of the fairladies…..

I really hoped the holiday weekend might create distraction enough to get for a little better price...Not to be.. David Spillman

28043 in north carolina

April 1970

never know when a September/October 69 dated glass may pop up!!??

What are the window dates?

Checking on my vin 740 shows the same apparently un-used black wire…… Looks clean as a whistle inside the protective sleeve…. Like the above mentioned previous picture Was folded for extended time …..

Update….. wound up stripping all the recently applied paint off 2446 due to ……well… a misunderstanding of the quality expected is a nice way to put it… New paint….better prep, better paint ….more controlled environment to apply has resulted in a more better virtually perfect paint reapplication. Have rebuilt, restored the quarter trim of both 51 and vin 2446 …. Polished up up few sets for future use. Vin 51 is in the same boat of unsatisfactory paint application….. soon to address that as well….. Cleaned up and flipped over the dash front cover trim, of 2446, I’m believing this is the true color “light greenish”… of both this part and possibly the correct hue of green for horns as well? Comments?

Series 2/3 oct. 71-73? Had never realized/noticed the highlighted in white, “defogger” and the placard of sorts for the driving lights, and more of a decal for the choke. Rear window “high lighted” when defogger was present. Parking lights label is quite thick, bringing surface up level with the lid itself. Appears these details were affixed to the more common export market console lid…… 2 different style parking lights label quite labels I can see. I thought kinda neat.. David

More items for the platers….seatbelts, lower control arms….headlight buckets….

Fuel filter bracket search turns into 5 brackets , morphs into seats

Pulling apart a set of early seats for blasting of metal revealed some really coarse grass/hair glued together in a square mat shape….. a quick sniff of this material reveals one of the sources of the “Z” smell that all are familiar with. I was surprised of the amount of rust underneath the seat covers both bottoms and backs

Quick walk around…. IMG_0955.mov