More Misc Things Done

Mike really has gotten a lot of little things done. His goal is to get as much done as possible before the car gets here so that it will be smoother sailing reassembling the car. This is the differential that Gary painted and got back to us. Mike went ahead and started assembling things on it.

The rear brakes assembled on it

 He also was able to get the front disk brake pieces ready and awaiting assembly

 This is the back side of front spindle with brakes attached.

The front view

He used some high temperature coating on the Brake Calipers

The Exhaust Manifolds also got a high temperature coating.

Car in Primer, and Other Random Progress

I am really behind in blogging. Life has been busy which is unfortunate because a lot has been happening with the car. I should have documented things better. So now it will just be an abbreviated entry with lots of pictures.

The car is in primer and is actually getting to the point of being painted. Its exciting stuff! There was a lot of body work that had to be done before it could be painted. We went up to Hooper a couple weeks ago to drop some more stuff off and got a picture of the car.

 There are the splash shields before Mike did anything to them.

 This is what they looked like after he sand blasted them and repainted them. He had a fun time making little staples to reattach the rubber pieces. They turned out incredibly nice!

 Mike also was able to clean up the heater box. I don't have a before picture but it is looking nice.

 He also painted the Air Cleaner, Oil Pan and Valve Covers. Unfortunately the Valve Covers had the paint wrinkle on them so he has to sand blast them and will be repainting them soon.

 I love the color blue that is used on the engine parts. These parts turned out so good! It blows me mind how things can go back to looking brand new again. He also painted the brake power booster black.

There is plenty more he has gotten done. He has spent every evening working on the car in some way or another. He has gone through and sand blasted nuts and bolts and all kinds of car parts. Our house is constantly smelling like paint due to parts being clear coated or painted black and then brought in the house to dry. It is a very common occurrence right now... but I don't mind it because it means progress.

Part's Clean-up

I don't have many pictures to go with this post. Just the following two pictures that show how Mike has the garage setup getting ready for the car to come back from the painters. We have a couple tables with car parts that he is starting to go through and clean up.

Mike has spent a decent amount of time out at the sand blaster. He is sandblasting and painting parts like crazy. The goal is to try and get as much done and ready so when the car comes back the parts can just go right on the car without delay. The hope is that the reassembly will go a bit smoother like that.

So the car is getting close to being painted. The rear axle has been all painted. In a couple of days we will meet up with the painter to get the rear axle back and give him the rotisserie so he can paint the actual car. Mike plans on putting the new bearings and assembling the brakes on the rear axle so it is less to do when the car gets here.

The seats are going to be picked up in the next couple of days to be reupholstered. They are in bad shape sit that will be interesting to see them all fixed up.

It is getting exciting as things are really starting to happen. It is also majorly stressful. I really hope we can get everything done in time. We have slowed down on ordering car parts until our tax return comes in. Then we can order the rest of what we need. We did however order a reproduction license plate be made. It is a replica of the license plate number my dad had on the car when he bought it. We were originally going to register the car with the original plates but would not be able to do a vintage registration in that case. It makes more sense to register the car with vintage plates then to do normal car registration where we could use the replica plates. So we will just have to use the replica's as part of the car display at the car shows.  it is still neat having a copy of the original plates.

It still blows my mind to think that this car was my dad's first car. Honestly, how many people can say they have their dad's first car? I am so lucky to have it and can't wait for it to be totally restored. It is going to be amazing!  I am also really looking forward to taking the car to it's first car show with my dad. It will just be a really neat experience.