Re: 75 el camino project.

by riddick75 Tue Sep 20, 2016 8:41 pm

got the front window opening, door jams and inside of the doors primed and painted finally

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Dark Green Metallic
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Dark Green Metallic
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by Hs1973 Wed Sep 21, 2016 12:11 pm

Very Nice color. Congrats

by Joe73 Wed Sep 21, 2016 2:16 pm

yes, very nice color. Nice work. I'm building my paint booth right now.

by DaveFury Wed Sep 21, 2016 9:24 pm

Looks great! I like the green.

Dave W.

by riddick75 Mon Oct 31, 2016 2:32 am

weather turned cold a little soon on me so I decided no more painting this year so she got put a way for the winter. but got some shots of my pile of parts next to my dads pile of parts. lol

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and some pictures with out the constraint of the tent in my way

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by riddick75 Thu Jun 22, 2017 8:06 pm

its been a while and mostly I havent done much to it but Im putting the side windows back in for safe keeping and Im trying to find a material that would work for the guide blocks. the old suff just disintegrated off. the brackets are perftctly fine just need the felt type stuff...has anyone found a good replacement for that or even the same material?

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by DaveFury Thu Jun 22, 2017 10:29 pm

riddick75 wrote:its been a while and mostly I havent done much to it but Im putting the side windows back in for safe keeping and Im trying to find a material that would work for the guide blocks. the old suff just disintegrated off. the brackets are perftctly fine just need the felt type stuff...has anyone found a good replacement for that or even the same material?

The fuzzy side of stick on Velcro works pretty good. I used it on the window guides on my '58 Plymouth Fury 12 years ago and it's still good to go.

Dave W.

by riddick75 Fri Jun 23, 2017 5:31 am

funny thing is I was thinking of that. its the closest thing I could think of that looks like it. I'm glad to hear it does work for it.

by riddick75 Wed Mar 13, 2019 6:03 am

been a while since I posted on here, also been a bit since I worked on it. I made a paint booth in my garage and got the main body primed and painted

by riddick75 Wed Mar 13, 2019 6:07 am

I also got the windows in and like DaveFury suggested, used the fuzzy side of some industrial Velcro for the window guides, seemed to work really well.

by thatfnthing Wed Mar 13, 2019 8:31 am

Looks great!

by riddick75 Wed May 01, 2019 4:21 pm

been working on some interior stuff, recovering the dash pad with some vacuum form able vinyl I found a few years ago

made my own oven box lined with aluminum foil and a turbo heater to get it to about 285 degrees, probably not hot enough but more form able

still working on finishing up the edges

by Limey SE Wed May 01, 2019 4:35 pm

Riddick75 that's a great idea I have a few dash's I could do that with if you ever part with that set up LOOKS GREAT

by riddick75 Wed May 01, 2019 4:41 pm

Limey SE wrote:Riddick75 that's a great idea I have a few dash's I could do that with if you ever part with that set up LOOKS GREAT

thanks, making the hot box and the vacuum table are the easy part, but finding the vinyl to use is the hard if not impossible part, I tried looking for the material again but could not find it anywhere.

by riddick75 Wed May 01, 2019 4:58 pm

switching gears my seat covers came in from car upholstery guys. I already had the seats stripped and painted with some lacquer I had sitting on the shelf came out a pretty cool blue.

so started with the bottom seat

one of the backrests

so if anyone has taken their front seat apart and knows where the screws go or if the back part of the lower seat is not supposed to be straight across that back when there is an armrest

but in my hubris of "it wont be that long I'll remember" I didn't take any pictures of the disassembly and can't remember where 2 screws go, I think they are on the bottom seat but I am also wondering if the seat was done wrong, where the arm rest sits I remember there being sewn in sections that jutted out to make room for the seat to pin in.

by Hs1973 Thu May 02, 2019 11:53 am

Im pretty sure the 2 screws goes in the bottom seat, on top af the little raised back part. One in each corner i Think. Im not 100procent sure but i belive i have seen them sitting there when you lean the backrest forward.

by riddick75 Sun Sep 22, 2019 11:34 am

got back to painting the rest of the parts

while trying to find the emblem holes in the tailgate I found a ton of bondo.

so that took a little time to fix

by Limey SE Sun Sep 22, 2019 11:55 am

Thats a Cool Idea sir for hanging the parts to paint them and Starting to come together for ya Looks good

by riddick75 Sun Sep 22, 2019 12:05 pm

fenders went well though, no surprises there at least

by riddick75 Sun Sep 22, 2019 12:08 pm

Limey SE wrote:Thats a Cool Idea sir for hanging the parts to paint them and Starting to come together for ya Looks good

thanks, i figure its the best way to make sure full coverage of green. granted more tedious lol

by Limey SE Sun Sep 22, 2019 12:10 pm

Wanna throw some silver on mine when Ready thats some good work Sir

by thatfnthing Mon Sep 23, 2019 9:28 am

Looks good! I agree with Limey, pretty ingenious setup for painting panels.

by riddick75 Tue Oct 01, 2019 7:30 am

thatfnthing wrote:Looks good! I agree with Limey, pretty ingenious setup for painting panels.

thanks

by riddick75 Tue Oct 01, 2019 7:34 am

got the tailgate and rear bumper installed and aligned and the bumper fillers.

by g3chevy / Mr Pontiac Tue Oct 01, 2019 12:37 pm

Very ingenious way of supporting parts and panels. The paint looks great. Thanks for sharing these pics. Hopefully it keeps the rest of us motivated. BTW, how did your dash pad turn out???

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