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Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:56 pm
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Location: in the back of my bus CA
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| WOW, we spent most of the afternoon getting the body straight again before setting it on the heater channels. What a monster job. The car was tweaked front to back and side to side. It fought us the whole time and we finally won. It was such a great feeling to see the body back on its solid heater channels and with good gaps all around. At the end of the day we pulled it off the pan and put it back on the dolly so we can finish up some lower body metal work tomorrow. The good news is that the car really does not have any rust. It just has some very strange and carefully executed metal extractions. Nothing we can't fix, but its like a life size car model that has to be built piece by piece. |
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Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:57 pm
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Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:35 am
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Location: GRAND JUNCTION COLORADO
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| Wow you guys are kicking ass. It is nice to see this car going together for this family. Especially with its history... |
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Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:44 am
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Location: Utah
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| Just good, honest, quality hard work. This is a joy to watch happen! |
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Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:51 am
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Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:01 am
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Kickin' ass Cause We can.... again!!!!  
Great work guys!!! Kick that split's ass back into shape!!! 
That thing should be on the road by the end of the month... |
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Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:16 am
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Location: Masterton, New Zealand
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| Wow, 60 years in the same family. Now that's some history! |
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Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:05 am
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Location: Grand Junction, CO
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| Its crazy how much has gotten done on this car in the last 2 days. |
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Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:13 am
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| I know to straighten up the frame was an animal of a job. Unbelievable you guys did it that fast. My brother and dad better get on the dirty cam quick before you guys have it done. Cheers to all of you!! |
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Tue Feb 09, 2010 3:09 pm
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| Damn you guys dont screw around....this one is going really fast....I like it.... |
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Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:40 am
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JJ and Pig killed it again. Heater channels in and major metal work almost done. I'm sure I'm missing a thousand things in details, but you get the idea of what happened.
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Don't worry, we're going to shave those heater vents and drill some round ones.
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Doors open/close, and the gaps look titties:
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Wed Feb 10, 2010 9:05 am
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Why did they have this panel cut off? It doesn't look like there was any rust.
Same for the front spare tire area that was cut out? |
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| Body work sucks my balls..and I don't have any pics of it. I'm just getting grumpy balls,I need something to get real excited about |
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Wed Feb 10, 2010 9:17 am
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| Wow another banner day for kcw guys. I watched all day yesterday on the dirty cam. Today I'm gonna have the laptop on while it's sitting on my plan bench, so the guys working for me building movie scenery can enjoy it too. Hollywood will be watching from New Orleans. YeeHa!! |
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Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:09 am
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| tlambert wrote: |
Why did they have this panel cut off? It doesn't look like there was any rust.
Same for the front spare tire area that was cut out? |
That peice looks great from that side.. but from the back you can see thats about 3 of those all welded together to make one good one!
The guy that was working on this car did alot of crappy hard work.. and then never got to the good gratifying part!
Glad your liking Dave.. Most customers do.. It's nice to feel like no matter where you are, you can be "apart" of the build! |
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Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:36 am
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John what are you guys using (primer wise) in between the panels before you weld them together?
I know about using weld thru but wasen't sure if you found something different to use for the rust? |
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| john jones wrote: |
| Body work sucks my balls..and I don't have any pics of it. I'm just getting grumpy balls,I need something to get real excited about |
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