New build thread; 48 Plymouth

[dwaynerz]

nice build. impressive work.

[falconvan]

Hey Pro, that is a good site, checked it out a little last night. Thanks for the info.
Thanks for the compliment, Dwaynerz; I hope to get a little time on it this weekend. Been a crazy week at work, 5:30am to 8-9 at night everyday so far.

[dwaynerz]

hey falcon. maybe i will see you at chuckaburger (or somewhere in the area) some weekend with it. im not far from you, streaight up 255 north of 270.

[falconvan]

It's possible; we'll see how far she gets this summer. I'm not ready to make another completion prediction on this one. I might drive up there and see yours, though. When do the shows start up there?

[dwaynerz]

im not far from you falcon. only about an hour. my shows would start about the same time as yours, altho at the present time, it cant get here fast enough

[falconvan]

Yeah, no kidding. My grandson is 3 and he keeps asking when we're going to the car show. That's becoming our thing together; hopefully we'll be building him a car someday. I got the patch on the other side fully welded in today, along with most of the trunk patch and several hours of grinding.

[Dave Severson]

Looks like a good days work Falcon!!! All I got done was a few more hours of block sanding and some time messin' with the hood on the '57...

The panel work looks great!

[akrateffil]

Falcon,

Your Plymouth is looking good. You are an inspiration for me to get working on mine!

[falconvan]

I decided I'm at a point where I'm going to need some help on this; my body skills are fair but I want this to be nice. I've got a friend who's a pretty good body man so I had him come look today. He gave me a pretty good price so we'll start working together on getting the main body work finished starting the last week of December. I'm excited; it's going to come out great plus I get to learn along the way.

[techinspector1]

I'm excited; it's going to come out great plus I get to learn along the way.

It doesn't get much better than that.

[dwaynerz]

falcon.... some of us here would think you already know alot.

[falconvan]

I'm better at the body work than I was a few years ago but still a long way to go. Really we're never done learning; there's always someone better out there.

[falconvan]

Totally worthless today; I went out in the garage, looked around, came back in, and plopped in my office chair. I usually never let a Saturday get away but this week at work beat me to a pulp.

[akrateffil]

Falconvan we all deserve a day of rest every now and then.

[falconvan]

I kind of jumped around on this today; I finished up welding in the trunk panel and a couple of little patches where the spare tire bracket was. I'm going to eliminate the cowl vent so I cut all the brackets off of it and turned it into a patch. This is going to be tough getting this straight so i just tacked it and I'll let my body man finish this up. I've got the whole week of Christmas off so i'm going to try and get a couple of long days to work on the underside and get the welds cleaned up and hopefully POR-15 the whole underside of the body along with a lot of the inner body structure. I know a lot of guys like to paint all that body color but I figure if you're not going to see it once the interior is together, it's getting the POR-15 treatment.