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Came out super nice, Falcon. Very well done! Too bad that 99 out of 100 guys that look at it when it's finished will be clueless to the fact that the front tin is custom!!! But hey, that just means it's done right!!!!

Falcon I like the one piece lower myself . The front looks so much better with your design so keep it going and pics too.

Brian and IC2, Thanks for your interest, Over the weekend we got another 10" of snow and the garage thermometer was down to 17F. I was working on the car pretty steady until late November when it got too cold for my little heater in the garage to keep up and then we were busy with the "white Christmas", now they tell us that the present snow will still be here when we get even more in a day or two. It certainly seems like unusual weather for the Mid-Atlantic. Yes, I signed another contract for a book and I am trying to make this one sell better than the last one but it is intended to be a short text so I think I can get some work on the car if the weather would clear up. One picture I might not have shown is that I think I am getting near the end with just a few more wires and a hose to the power brake yet to go. The picture shows the tiop bows I did some time in September showing the carving in the front bow for the windshield wiper and the nice stainless top irons. I must have had the front bow on and off close to ten times and the screw holes started to get loose so now I have epoxied in the screws. Then I still needed more clearance for the wiper blade so since I couldn't get the screws out I took off the whole set of top irons to carve the bow some more. The plan is to get the motor running and the car inspected so I can drive it to a top shop. I am getting tired of the $50 fee every time I move the car somewhere! The last time was to the muffler shop for turbo mufflers and an H-pipe but it was $50 each way on a flat bed! Another problem is that I got a new laptop for Christmas (HP Pavilion) after the keyboard wore out on my old laptop and of course it has everything new, Windows-7, Excell 2007 and WORD 2007 so I sure miss my old XP system and have to learn a lot of new stuff and I still don't know what all the keys do on this HP laptop and then HP breaks in every so often trying to keep me up to date and I have no idea what the upgrades are so I have been busy on a laptop learning curve, but hey the thermometer in the garage tells the story. By the way I am pretty sure my immediate family now has immunity to H1N1 because about three weeks ago we were fine on a Sunday and sick as dogs for the following week. My wife vomited until she fainted and I actually thought she was gone laying on the bathroom floor! It lasted about a week but hey, now we are immune for another year! I'll bet IC2 and Brian are getting sunburn up near the Great Lakes while for some reason the Mid-Atlantic has become the Snow Belt! Crazy weather here!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Hi Don, my goodness I haven't seen your car in a long time and boy does she look good! That color is beautiful, I am not surprised that everything is so clean looking, very nice work Don. Is that a metalic brown, sweet.

Hi Don - finally hearing from you. I thought that you had been 'swallowed' up with your book, cold weather and whatever over the winter.

Your car is really looking great now - someday, after the winter that never ends, you should be able to get back working on it. This winter almost makes me reconsider our current plans to relocate to near Roanoke this year. They, for sure have had more snow and miserable weather then up here in NYS. We have had - possibly - 3/4 inches since early December, but it has been cool. We haven't had the flu but did get the shots several weeks ago. I hope you and your wife have gotten over your spell.

I posted current photos of my car on another thread yesterday, but here's one as well. The shifter and e-brake boots have to be installed along with a couple of other minor items inside, the top installed temporarily and the front end aligned.

http://www.clubhotrod.com/forums/sho...868#post376868

Falcon looks much better than the original! I didn't get a chance to say something like those tight bar thin tube grills that they make aftermarket for a Chevy truck would look nice, but what you came up with looks great too.

Hi Brick,

Glad you are up and about! The color is a metallic maroon which looks different in the dark and more red in bright light. Here is a beter idea of the color with my vulgar running boards which you may have missed. Most of the other folks were too polite to criticize this but IC2 did suggest I dip them in pickup bed black. I can do that later but my wife notes I tend to the gaudy so I'll leave them shiny for now. I had to put something on the boards because the car has been so long in building that I already have a few scratches and dings where I dropped a tool. I have an agreement in writing with the paint shop to do some touchups because they still are supposed to paint the wheels, but already the master painter has changed at that shop. In the meantime I have had two deer-repairs at that shop and I keep reminding them that "someday" i will be back to get the touchup and the wheels painted. The most recent deer collision was a total surprise. I was driving the family Saturn wagon on a four lane blacktop road through a forested area and I never even saw the big buck; I heard him hit before I saw him and he pretty well destroyed the left front fender and he only lasted a few quivering moments. He was a big 10-pointer and a beautiful animal but not as fast as he thought he was! Last week between snows we saw 12 deer in a group at one time and 11 on another occasion grazing on a large lawn just up the street on our rural blacktop lane that might have once been U.S. 1 back in the 1800s because it is called "Old Telegraph Road" but now just a two lane winding road with a one lane bridge just down the street in the other direction. I guess the deer were hungry after the Christmas snow and found the still green lawn a salad delight! The insurance cost on the Saturn was $3000 so I was glad I had full insurance coverage and it looks as good as new, but I now go real slow up that back road with the deep forest along it.

Best Wishes,
Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

You guys are killing me LOL . Those cars are looking so good and are so close . Warm garage but too many logs here . Someday Someday soon .

That color is beautiful, Don. I think your running boards look really good, I wouldn't change them.
Yours looks great, too, IC2!
You'll get there, Bobby. just keep pluggin away; one section at a time. You'll be done before you know it.
I thought about an aftermarket grille, Steve. Just thought I'd try my hand at building one. I'm not crazy about it; I'm going to try and put some expanded metal behind it and see what that does to the looks.

Man Don, I really like that color, and the running boards are cool and will look good anyway you have them. A good idea IMHO, won't be very long and you'll be doing some all day cruising in that beauty.
IC2 your car is looking fantastic also, Dave that yellow jumps off the screen, I bet it really pops out in the sun huh? Very nice.

Originally Posted by brickman

Man Don, I really like that color, and the running boards are cool and will look good anyway you have them. A good idea IMHO, won't be very long and you'll be doing some all day cruising in that beauty.
IC2 your car is looking fantastic also, Dave that yellow jumps off the screen, I bet it really pops out in the sun huh? Very nice.

Thanks Brick. Actually the color is '08 up Roush Mustang Venetian Orange - evidently there is some of that color phase change ability as it looks a lot more orange in the sun (but it really does look like a yellow to me as well)

Wow, ok I can see some orange in that last picture you put up. That is really cool, sort of a pearl or something, very cool. The paint nowadays is getting better and better. I'm going to have to hide my car with it's scruffy 2 year old paint!HeHeHe!

Very cool, now what color is the "I Scream" going to be Falcon, I may have to repaint my car before bringing her out just to keep up with the jones!

Originally Posted by brickman

Wow, ok I can see some orange in that last picture you put up. That is really cool, sort of a pearl or something, very cool. The paint nowadays is getting better and better. I'm going to have to hide my car with it's scruffy 2 year old paint!HeHeHe!

Very cool, now what color is the "I Scream" going to be Falcon, I may have to repaint my car before bringing her out just to keep up with the jones!

Yes, it does have some pearl in it - it has to. They had to do CPR on me when I was told the price after ordering a gallon

My father used to work for an airline interior panel company, he was a color matcher, he had given me 2-lb zip lock bags of pearl, red, blue, gold and green. Now it only takes about a teaspoon to mix into a gallon of paint so I m set for several life times..

Brick, I'm going for basic white. No sense in over complicating matters.
Got the motor back from the machine shop tonight so now I just need to order parts. Everything turned out standard; this thing was in great shape inside. I decided just to make another panel for the side of the hood. With everything being flat and bent at straight angles on this thing; it's been great practice for making panels. I drilled out the spotwelds, cut a new piece and after a few trial and errors on the brake, it came out pretty decent.