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95BlueStallion · Aug 9, 2011

Screw the beach, move back here to Iowa where there is nothing better to do but work on your car.

CarMichael Angelo · Aug 10, 2011

95BlueStallion said:
Screw the beach, move back here to Iowa where there is nothing better to do but work on your car.

The beach is NOT my favorite place, BUT....... It is just a tick better than Iowa. But at the beach, just like Iowa, there is nothing better to do than work on your car.
( I was trying to think of a way to take the 1/4 windows with me, since they need refurb-ing......I don't think I'll be able to pull that off though)

A day at the beach:
Get up at 8. Eat.Turn on TV in room (try to figure if you'll be able to get away w/ watching SPEED ch. for several hours) NO. Turn TV back off. Go out to the water. Get in. Get stung by jellyfish. Get seaweed in your ass crack. Get sand in your ass crack. Get the piss sun-burned out of you. Go back to room and eat. Go out to water. Start drinking at 4. Get in. More seaweed, More Sun, More Sand, More Jelly fish. Stay till 5:30-6. Go back in take shower. (first time you've felt good all day) Go out to dinner. Continue drinking till 11:00. Go to bed.
Repeat the next day.

I prefer the mountains when I go on vacation. The way I see it, the ocean is the only body of water that you feel worse getting out of than you did before you got in it. Unfortunately, since it is only 4.5 hours away and the Rocky Mountains are 3 times that, the sand wins every time.

Boss 351 · Aug 10, 2011

ha! Feel the same way Mike. When I was in Cuba, I spent the time drinking and smoking fat ass cigars. My GF clocked me at 18 cans a beer a day lol... I hate the beach - love the bar lol.

95BlueStallion · Aug 10, 2011

Just got back from my first visit to the Rockies. Mind you I am a sportbike rider, so I loved every minute of riding the roads, and watching beautiful sunsets from our bad ass house we rented in Nederland, CO. I too will take the Rockies over a beach on future vacations. That being said, get back to work on your car!

CarMichael Angelo · Aug 11, 2011

95BlueStallion said:
Just got back from my first visit to the Rockies. Mind you I am a sportbike rider, so I loved every minute of riding the roads, and watching beautiful sunsets from our bad ass house we rented in Nederland, CO. I too will take the Rockies over a beach on future vacations. That being said, get back to work on your car!

I am always working on that damn car. Yesterday, I removed the carpet and had to clean the passenger floor. (read remove surface rust) The previous owner's street urchins must've just dumped every drink they ever had in the back seat, or he left the windows open all the time, because it was significant. There is pretty significant pitting, but no rust through or loss of integrity. I'll use that paint that supposedly converts rust, and topcoat it before the sound deadener application.

I built the mounts for the rollbar, and it's in there. I'll finish that up today and cover the floor in (I wish I could say Dyna-mat, it's shorter than "sound deadener"..but it's not) It's a clone of that made by a company called Stinger. (Remember, I wouldn't use Dyna-mat if they GAVE it to me.)

I got the new custom stripes back yesterday.

I cut the rear stripe out of the bunch, and promptly stuck that one across the tail spoiler and.............it worked. It looks really good. Not like any stripe Ford ever put on the tail of a Mustang, but close enough to be taken as factory.

I'll stripe the door today, and post all of the pics of the dirty car tonight.

CarMichael Angelo · Aug 11, 2011

80 percent complete

I'll call these pics the 80% shots. Clearly, there is loads still left to do, but I just wanted to see it. The garage was over run with stuff and is filthy, and it's just too cramped to try to do anything any more so these shots are the fringe benefits of me needing to clean the garage.

I just hosed off the compound and dried it. There is still water dripping off of it, but I'm losing the sun so I had to take these.

That otta hold you over for awhile until I can get it completed, and get some real shots of the car in decent light.

SlammedGT · Aug 11, 2011

awesome work.... I really love the back.. good job

TenorPlayinGuy · Aug 11, 2011

OMFG That looks insane!!! Great Job Mike!

Stymeesmont · Aug 11, 2011

This is the best build I have seen in a very long time. Been great watching it step by step with a great looking finished (almost) project.

stykthyn · Aug 11, 2011

I just now realized this car was a coupe. Fab looks top notch(pun intended). Not really my style, but I can appreciate the talent and work that has gone into it. Good job.

Boosted92LX · Aug 11, 2011

Speechless.

Adams91LX · Aug 11, 2011

really nice job mike...

looks great.

would be a fun photoshoot with your car, an aero notch, and a 68/ish...

on a sidenote... reminds me a of a sawed-off shotgun

CarMichael Angelo · Aug 11, 2011

Adams91LX said:
really nice job mike...

looks great

on a sidenote... reminds me a of a sawed-off shotgun.

Thanks to you all I'm really pleased w/ how it looks out of the damn garage.

would be a fun photoshoot with your car, an aero notch, and a 68/ish

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I agree. Interesting to see the morph between what was once there. The 68 would only share similarity in the tail. The front end??? I don't know what I actually have created. It's certainly NOT a 68 "looking" front end.

How do you like the stripes?

I think they're kind of "low key" for me, wishing now I'd added another color to them. The cool part is that they kept catching the light and would change in front of me. I think it's kind of funny how the tail looks like I "turned the stripe on" in the close up.

As for the analogy on the "sawed off shot gun" I'll take it.

darthcual · Aug 11, 2011

And I thought hot pockets were breathtaking!

Adams91LX · Aug 11, 2011

madmike1157 said:
How do you like the stripes?

I do like them.. they are subtle and I love subtle second look stuff... (I will be putting small flat black stripes on my black coupe one day)..

I might think about a custom vinyl stripe (like the rocker panel stripe)... one that follows the natural body line just above the door handle. Starts behind the headlights and goes all the way back and matches the profile of the spoiler... I'll have to sketch something up tomorrow..

bcam347 · Aug 11, 2011

I agree. Interesting to see the morph between what was once there. The 68 would only share similarity in the tail. The front end??? I don't know what I actually have created. It's certainly NOT a 68 "looking" front end.

grill shape kinda looks like:

NIKwoaC · Aug 12, 2011

Damn, that thing is going to be a head turner. Can't wait to see it in a magazine!

CarMichael Angelo · Aug 12, 2011

bcam347 said:
grill shape kinda looks like:

You got me. Exactly the look I was going for.

Noobz347 · Aug 12, 2011

What wheels are you going to end up with Mike?

CarMichael Angelo · Aug 12, 2011

Those are the wheels Noobz.

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