Old car build thread

[Speeddog]

I've done that trick with a wedding ring, can confirm they got hot right quick.

[Monsterlover]

Great progress!  Great pics!

TIL: positive ground cars can turn a wedding ring into a furnace that can induction harden your finger.

[Duck-Stew]

It has returned to the land of the living!  (And much prettier now too)

[Popeye the Sailor]

Well...in honour of my recent birthday Paula let me send the gauges for my Chrysler out to have them redone.

Should look like this when complete:





Hopefully I can get back to it.

[kopfjäger]

That grille and hood look sweet. Car is coming together nicely. 👍🏼

[Speeddog]

Well...in honour of my recent birthday Paula let me send the gauges for my Chrysler out to have them redone.

I was not aware that there were any Juke Box restoration shops left.

[Popeye the Sailor]

That grille and hood look sweet. Car is coming together nicely. 👍🏼

That grille cost as much as the parts car. 

I was not aware that there were any Juke Box restoration shops left.

There are very few places left that work on electroluminescent gauges. That isn't backlit. It's a ceramic coating that vibrates at some ridiculous rate and causes it to glow like that. Even the needles glow.

[Speeddog]

vibrates at some ridiculous rate

really

[Randimus Maximus]

Looking good, Dave!

 

[Popeye the Sailor]

really

No, it's just high voltage.

But...fancy for the time.

http://automotivemileposts.com/imperial1960panelescent.html

[koko64]

Very cool. It must look spectacular at night.
I think my dad's GMH FB Holden may have used something similar in copied the style only, but not the lighting method of some American dashboards of the time. It was dubbed the "Americana" style dash on a car that looked like a pigmy 57 Chev.
Looking forward to seeing night pics once it's done.

[Popeye the Sailor]

So....column seal.

Some people would put this on....before the steering column was final mounted but....



Coat hooks. Not that it'll ever see a coat, but....shiny.



Final install of radio, ignition switch, gauges, wiper switch completed.



No idea where the ashtray is.

It'll turn up.

Maybe.

[Popeye the Sailor]

Stock '62 Ford Headlight switch. Theoretically.



Like everything else, wired per the painless wiring instructions.

I had my choice of headlights or tail lights, but not both.

So I googled the switch terminals. Just "Headlight switch B1 B2 etc."

It perfectly matches a Mopar switch. Wire it up according to that and everything works perfectly.

Not sure what happened there-I have the switch out of the parts car and the original-they all match the new one. I'm going to assume Painless is confused somehow.

Just another thing that took way longer than it should have.

I try to share the candid approach. I'm currently five years into a six month project.

[Popeye the Sailor]

Heater out. Be sure to remove the lower heater hose first. It'll pop right off. That way the seemingly limitless amounts of coolant it contains can slosh out the entire time you work on the upper hose, which is somehow permanently welded to the heater core.

Really, the core is delicate and hoses are cheap so just cut the make the beast with two backsing hoses you should replace anyway like you knew you should have.


50 years of dirt removed along with all gaskets.









Rattlecanned, because it's going under the dash and I suffer from early onset lazy.

[Popeye the Sailor]

Foamy goodness that isn't beer. Who knew?



Stellar instructions:



I fit checked everything in the seal kit (fancy name for a bunch of foam) and then stuck it on with glue. Such is the high standards I established when I worked in the ye olde aerospace industry.



Potentially 17% less drafty.



A tiny jump seat!