Do you also have 1:1 project cars?

[espo]

14 hours ago, 89AKurt said:

Now that you point that out, yes I do.  Thank you.  So no Rally Cross.  I know there are also reproductions of the tray, but for now I don't know if the engine runs.

There was a new-like gas tank, that's in, but no new filler neck part, or sender.  List is getting longer....
The plastic filter is temporary.

Air hose blew out the generator, check out the wasp nest.  Nobody in town tests generators.  Everyone just puts on alternators.

Oh gosh, good excuse for new twice pipes.

Artsy shot.  Imagining some sort of light.

Nothing about model building, other than weathering and details.

The generator brushes still look good from the outside. We used to just "dress" the armature with a little emery cloth when replacing the brushes, lucky I guess as never had a problem doing it that way.  

[RSchnell]

The '55 convertible made it to FL and in true FL fashion, it started raining as we were doing the offload. I stuffed it into a storage unit for now until my relocation is complete. No sense starting a project until I get the shop set up.

[89AKurt]

I really should know better, look at my Shelf Of Doom, juggling two resurrection projects now.  Back to Fakerri, went to Snow Cap for lunch a couple weeks ago, brakes started getting dicey, parked.  My Fakebook icon picture.

Got the turn signals, air horns, and now with new back-up lights to all work!  Because I hired a mechanic who knows wiring.

Interior is old and delaminating glue.  In this case I had left over silicon caulking to use up, have steel blocks and heavy hammer from my dad, gluing the edges of the console panel.

Today it took almost all day to get the brakes working correctly, I could have finished a WIP.  It was darting to the side, a Corvette forum thread talked about the issue that is common with these cars, brake line was found to have been kinked, tiny hole enough to suck air.  Separate Irked and Pleased topics right here.

GYMEE was ignored today.  Had to move Blue Cloud, faithful workhorse, hauled all the gravel for the driveway.  Took a drive through our National Forest, fire crews were out, dirt road was recently graded, avoided temptation for rally turns.

Had to wash the wheel/tires.

[89AKurt]

This really isn't much, but.... since I got the 3M polishing compound (about half used so far) to polish vehicle #3, and have used on #4, thought I would try to half--- polish the interior of #2.  Can you see the difference?  I assume it's nicotine and dust, the polish takes it right off.  Redneck door keeper-opener.

Like polishing the paint on a model, have to watch the corners and edges.
Next weekend is the club's big show at Watson Lake.  Trying to figure out what to enter, and if I should camp like last year.

[Ace-Garageguy]

2005 Neon 2-liter head teardown. I made the valve spring compressor extension eons ago for something else. Not perfect for the Neon, but it works.

'66 Chevelle. My custom EFI hard and soft lines and brackets for fuel regulator, throttle, and stand-alone TPI sensor for the trans controller are complete at this point. 

Because of the stupid design of the front crossmember on this high-dollar chassis (NOT Art Morrison), I had to machine custom 17 degree split spacers to mount the steering rack...after correcting wonky slotted mounting holes and awful bump-steer. How anybody who's s'posed to be a "car builder" could think it's OK to mount a steering rack on slotted holes in a crossmember...no matter how hard you tighten the bolts...is beyond my comprehension.

With the steering rack in the final position and the engine on the revised mounts I had to heavily modify to move it 3/4 inch to the rear, I can now measure the CORRECT length for the splined steering shaft to replace what my predecessor put in the thing. I also had to install a firewall eyeball and machine a custom bushing for it to correct the impossible angle the last guy left.  

You can see that building custom headers to snake through here will be...fun.

Custom DeLorean instrument panel nearing completion...on my model bench. The brushed aluminum bezel matches the finish on the body. Faces are screen printed on vinyl overlay on frosted styrene sheet. Compare this to the OEM DeLorean panel, below it.

                                                                     

DeLorean custom relay/engine management board and custom harness progressing nicely. Started the car on Saturday. She runs fine...but the CIS cold-start system is inop, so getting that playing nice is the next mission, before anything else.

Edited July 28 by Ace-Garageguy

[RSchnell]

Like I need another project car, much less one on the complete other end of the country- I worked a deal on another '55 Ford today. So it looks like I'm headed back out to California again in a couple months to get this one ready to drag home. The price was too good to pass up and it'll give me something to putz around with while I gather parts for the convertible. It's amazing as you age your perspective changes. I used to buy Fordors for parts cars, and here I am buying one to fix & drive. It's hell getting old LOL!

[deuces wild]

A '91 Mustang LX 5.0L hatch back that I bought new... It's now packing a Ford Motorsport B-58 Lightning Windsor 351 short block with aluminum heads and a carbed intake.

[89AKurt]

Because we have free run of Watson Lake Park, I took advantage of the band stage to take a picture.  Finally, four months later, Fakerri brakes work properly!  Blue Cloud is not needing attention, great workhorse.

GYMEE has to wait.

[Bugatti Fan]

No space or money to restore full size cars. 

That's why I build models and can have all the exotica I like !       Lol !

Edited August 5 by Bugatti Fan

[Russell C]

This could've gone into three other MCM threads here, the "What'sUp with the Post Office" / "Daily Irk" ones, since the Post Office managed to lose the first trio or radiator hoses I ordered, but I could have mentioned yesterday in the "What Pleased You Today" thread that the second replacement trio arrived by UPS just fine.

I'm technically stretching the boundaries of this thread because the title implies we'd have a daily driver non-project car and a 1:1 project car. I'm too poor to afford extra cars, this has been my daily driver since I bought it used in 1993, but ever since I was a car-guy 8 year-old, I wanted to own something spiffy that could be turned into a neat hot rod of some type or other. Years ago it got lowering springs, Jetta 4-into-2 ceramic coated exhaust manifold for a bit more horsepower, Passat dual fans setup, short shift linkages, improved suspension bushings ... but then it's been pure maintenance replacements to keep it mechanically sound. Factory plastic fuel pump swirl tank housing started leaking last fall but I ordered the wrong aftermarket all-aluminum one and had to accept a junkyard plastic one 'til now. A/C needs a recharge with vintage R12 freon cans. Prior plastic side tanks radiator lasted until 2003 then cracked big time and the current one is leaking at the same top area where the upper hose connects. Might as well catch the little belt connecting the two electric fans, Arizona heat kills rubber in the long term. Aesthetic appearance is a low priority beyond keeping it basically clean -- accepting donations for a total repaint! Just remember to make your checks out to "Cash." 🤣

[bobss396]

I had the '59 out yesterday. It started right up after sitting for a while. Still too hot for longer rides.

[89AKurt]

The Domino Effect, where one project breeds more projects, that take priority and have to get done before you proceed.  I'm sure that never happens to anyone. 🙄
I needed to park the "new" pickup somewhere, and decided to remodel the front yard.  I discovered "bulk spec ABC" designed for driveways, the aggregate is sharp, clay mix turns it all into a great surface, better than road spec ABC which has concrete chunks too.  0.6 ton second load.

First version, then looked at it and changed some things.

Took out a plant that was always scrawny, and cut back the Rosemary that was one of my first plants established, and survived.

Now I don't have to worry about side swiping my other vehicles.

 

[Ace-Garageguy]

14 hours ago, 89AKurt said:

The Domino Effect, where one project breeds more projects, that take priority and have to get done before you proceed...

Yup. SOP for everything-I-do.   

[Wickersham Humble]

This is my '61 Pontiac Tempest coupe with stock Buick 215 cu.in. V-8, one of 2006 ever built.  There were even less in '62, then the engine was folded, and later sold to Rover in GB.  This car was a real mess, but has gotten this far in about 18-months work, and I'm just turning eighty...!  Yep, the 'Dawn Firemist' hue is too red, but when more copper powder was added, it kept turning pinkish; not too appealing.  The ivory top isn't quite stock, either, but a Pontiac option mostly seen on full-sized Ponchos through '64.  Alas, it's a PowerGlide...  Obviously, not quite done yet!

It just won 2nd in Best '61 overall, and also interior from the "Little Indians" chapter of POCI, plus 3rd in engine compartment in their virtual car show.  I have dual exhausts on it now, and soon a 4-bbl carburetor, but it will keep the original 8.6:1 c.r., etc.  Also an anti-sway bar adapted from an MB SUV on the rear.  If it runs as well as I hope, it will probably be the last 'collector car' I dispose of...  This is my partner in 1/1 restoration, the upholstery expert; Benita.  Pretty cute for age 77, huh?  Wick

Edited August 10 by Wickersham Humble

[Scott8950]

I found another mustang i had to have even though my wife said i didn't need another 😁... I've already replaced the broken glass and will be painting it back factory colors soon.

[Zen]

Nice save on the GT! What are the factory colors on this one, the black & silver?

[johnyrotten]

13 hours ago, Scott8950 said:

I found another mustang i had to have even though my wife said i didn't need another 😁... I've already replaced the broken glass and will be painting it back factory colors soon.

Former bracket car?

[Scott8950]

2 hours ago, Zen said:

Nice save on the GT! What are the factory colors on this one, the black & silver?

Yes

[Scott8950]

2 hours ago, johnyrotten said:

Former bracket car?

No it's stock with aftermarket exhaust and 4.10 gears.

[johnyrotten]

4 minutes ago, Scott8950 said:

No it's stock with aftermarket exhaust and 4.10 gears.

Seen the wheel/tire set up,figured it may have been raced. Looks like a good solid car

[JollySipper]

52 minutes ago, johnyrotten said:

Seen the wheel/tire set up,figured it may have been raced. Looks like a good solid car

Those Welds are pretty popular! Both the draglites and dragstars......... All this talk about Fox Mustangs lately has me missing mine. I think I should just build a model of it.

[johnyrotten]

43 minutes ago, JollySipper said:

Those Welds are pretty popular! Both the draglites and dragstars......... All this talk about Fox Mustangs lately has me missing mine. I think I should just build a model of it.

I wasn't into Mustangs in my youth, now I'd love to find one in nice shape. Funny how your taste changes as you get older. Definitely build that model👍👍

[Scott8950]

4 hours ago, johnyrotten said:

Seen the wheel/tire set up,figured it may have been raced. Looks like a good solid car

It's a rust free car with all of its original body panels. 

[johnyrotten]

Just now, Scott8950 said:

It's a rust free car with all of its original body panels. 

Nice find.

[Tim W. SoCal]

5 hours ago, JollySipper said:

All this talk about Fox Mustangs lately has me missing mine. I think I should just build a model of it.

   Me too... I had an '82 Mercury Capri RS 5.0 HO. It was the first car I bought new, Oct. '82 at the year-end close out because the '83s were arriving. I chose the Capri because they were more highly optioned for substantially less money than an '82 Mustang GT and came in more colors that silver, black and triple red, plus I liked the Trans-Am style fender bulges better than the Mustang's design. I drove the wheels off of that car until I parked it in early 2000. At that point, I planned to build a drag racer out of it and run it at the NHRA sanctioned 1/4 mile strip they were gonna build in Banning, CA. As far as the drag strip, sponsored in part by the city and county, after all the hoopla and champagne toasting and glad handing and back slapping and ribbon cutting, the deal fell apart and the land and everything near it sets abandoned to this day. The Capri was eventually sold at a fire-sale price. If there's ever a 1:25 Scale '82 Capri model kit, I'll snatch up at least 4 of them. I already have the Dark Curry Brown Metallic spray paint ready to apply on that gorgeous Capri body.