Build Thread '83 T-top Coupe - Welding Holes in My Rear

RangerJoe · Sep 15, 2018

95BlueStallion said:
I wish I had the time to plug away like you are. I cant wait to get just my subframe connectors on, let alone my jacking rails.

If you notice, most people on here who accomplish a lot either have no children yet or their children are nearly grown and out of the house. For those of us in family stages of life, oh well....

Joe

Davedacarpainter · Sep 15, 2018

So I'm getting these tomorrow to make the car a five lug roller.

https://tulsa.craigslist.org/wto/d/17-mustang-wheels-with-tires/6690500653.html

These are actually going on my son's mustang and I'm taking his old ones. He could use a new set of tires.

His are the 2009 16" version of these.

Davedacarpainter · Sep 15, 2018

I just spent the last two hours getting a new phone.

I got an iPhone X. What a difference! I had a 6. Big jump in technology.

Of course that means that I wasn’t in the garage doing what I needed to be doing.

It really doesn’t matter how late I do the undercoating, it just MUST be done today.

So, I’m sucking a beer down and playing with my new phone right now. lol

Maybe later I’ll post new iPhone X pictures for y'alls perusal.

Davedacarpainter · Sep 15, 2018

I did it, I went out to the garage and got the stuff under the pan scuffed and sprayed with undercoating.

I also scuffed and sprayed the cs.

Tomorrow I weld!

You may notice the grey color. This is a good thing, green covers quick on this color.

Ryuk · Sep 16, 2018

Davedacarpainter said:
So I'm getting these tomorrow to make the car a five lug roller.

https://tulsa.craigslist.org/wto/d/17-mustang-wheels-with-tires/6690500653.html

These are actually going on my son's mustang and I'm taking his old ones. He could use a new set of tires.

His are the 2009 16" version of these.

I've got a set of these with about 35% tread left that I can't give away.

Davedacarpainter · Sep 16, 2018

JD08 said:
I've got a set of these with about 35% tread left that I can't give away.

Lol, the timing was right for me. My son needs new tires for his mustang, and I need some five lug roller wheels.

Davedacarpainter · Sep 16, 2018

Well crap!

I didn't think of everything!

I want to make the undercarriage green, hence the color of the undercoating. I need to spray the back sides of things before I weld in the cs.

Guess what I don't have here? My mini-jet paint gun, nor cups to spray it with. Maybe I can see if my manager will mind me picking it up from work. The security system there has different rules for entering the shop on sundays.

I'll let y'all know.

Noobz347 · Sep 16, 2018

Wave your hand in-front of the control panel and say, "These are not the droids you're looking for".

Davedacarpainter · Sep 16, 2018

Noobz347 said:
Wave your hand in-front of the control panel and say, "These are not the droids you're looking for".

.....

Davedacarpainter · Sep 16, 2018

Got the bosses ok, off to the shop I go.

Davedacarpainter · Sep 16, 2018

I go to to the shop.

I shook up the green, got some sealer and my gun. I'm ready to go.

I just want to wait till ten before I click on the compressor. Keep the savage beast appeased that way.

So , by lunch it should be green and relatively shiny under there. Shiny as the texture of the undercoating will allow.

By the way, the undercoating isn't really undercoating. It's rocker chip guard. I feel confident in topcoating chip guard without worrying about peeling.

By the time I get back from getting the new wheels this afternoon, the paint should be hardened enough for me to consider welding.

droopie85gt · Sep 16, 2018

Good thing I read to the end before posting. I was going to ask WTF would you cover that beautiful black POR 15 with that ugly ass gray rocker chip guard!!????
So body color UNDER the car? Over the top Dave! Again, I just hope one day the paint fairy shows up and the TOP of my car can be one nice uniform color. (well maybe some black accents too)

General karthief · Sep 16, 2018

The paint fairy stopped by my house one day and

90sickfox · Sep 16, 2018

Well, Dave.....its lunch time....guess not over there....I'll keep waiting....

Davedacarpainter · Sep 16, 2018

Ok, I scuffed the undercoating with a red scotchbrite, blew it all off, then I used a tack rag on it.

BTW, perfect day for me to do this out in the open today. Absolutely no wind! Ask how often we get days like that in oklahoma.

Anyhow, I sprayed a sealer over it and then sprayed the color. I'm letting that dry right now and then I'll go clear coat it.

Davedacarpainter · Sep 16, 2018

I put two coats of Sikkens clear on.

In the sun.

First green on Booger’s body.

Davedacarpainter · Sep 16, 2018

I went and got my son's new wheels.

The guy selling them is a guy named Jimmy Parsons.

So we get to talking about my project and he asks if I want to see some of his work, why not?

Turns out this guy is Jimmy Parsons the race car driver from the sixties and seventies! Real nice guy, Spectacular work shop!

His wife is a nurse and fabricates cars on the side. I mean fabricates!

A chopped and channeled '57 chevy with a c6 chassis under it here, a totally btchin' split window bug over there. Old race cars in stunning condition all around, a hot rod t-bucket with a wild flathead engine that he drove from coast to coast!

His wife is a bit of a mustang nut. She loves fox bodies, yet she showed me a '66 she totally customized.

They're both near genius in metal work.

Wow, I need to get to know them better.

Again, to top it off. It's Jim Parsons! I remember him from when I was a little boy.

I didn't feel right about asking to take pictures, so nothing to show.

What a cool craigslist add that turned out to be.

General karthief · Sep 16, 2018

No pics, didn't happen!

Davedacarpainter · Sep 16, 2018

Just to tell a little more, his grandpa won the Indy 500 back in 1950.

You should see the rare racing parts. Some seriously cool stuff there.

Davedacarpainter · Sep 16, 2018

General karthief said:
No pics, didn't happen!

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