New build thread; 48 Plymouth

[falconvan]

That it does!

[123pugsy]

Better to paint them the same as the body colour.
Silver paint always looks terrible.

Just my .02 cents


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[falconvan]

Better to paint them the same as the body colour.
Silver paint always looks terrible.

Just my .02 cents


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That's one look I never did like; I'm going to try and find something close to the stainless steel trim color. Eventually I'll either get these re-chromed or buy new ones. What budget I have now is going to go for interior.

[stovens]

Leave it as is for now, maybe use a little turtle wax to preserve it until your ready to rechrome.

[falconvan]

I'm on a 5 day off stretch from work so I've been hitting this pretty hard. The front end was together loose without cotter pins so I went through it with my caster/camber/toe gauge, got everything aligned, tightened down, and put in all the pins. I finished up the trunk latch and now it closes, locks, and all the lights work. I needed a center console for the radio and some cup holders so I took a couple of old metal shelves I saved and build that, just need to do a little bondo and paint on it. I also had bought a polishing wheel for all the stainless trim and needed to build a stand for it so that's done. Today I'm taking a break, tomorrow I have one more day off to get a little more done.

[123pugsy]

Looks good.

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[firebird77clone]

Contrasting primary colors always pop.

Red or blue on the bumpers?

Consider powder coating, I've seen some silver p.c. that has a fair resemblance to chrome.

[falconvan]

I found some silver that looks close to stainless; probably use that for a temporary until I either come up with a better set of bumpers or have the originals re-chromed.

[falconvan]

I bought this T-bird backseat several years ago and narrowed it to fit; I dug it out today and built a base for it to sit on and snap into. Now I just need to build some brackets to mount the back pieces, make a couple of curved filler pieces for the backs, and make a center piece to go between the backs. Once that's done I'm sending the springs up to the sandblaster. Also test fit my console; needs a little tweaking but looks pretty good.

[40FordDeluxe]

Very nice work! I really like your using the shelves to build the console. I will steal that idea when i get around to it on my 40. On my 40 the bumpers were painted mexichrome when I got it. I thought they looked hideous. I sanded them and painted them gloss black and it looked a lot better I felt. But silver goes nice with white.

[falconvan]

Hah! Mexi-chrome sound like some new Taco Bell dish. I'll have two chalupas and a mexichrome with extra cheese.

[40FordDeluxe]

That color has been around up here for a while.

[ParkerDB]

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[falconvan]

Thanks, glad you like it.

[firebird77clone]

Didn't Paul Simon sing a song about mexichrome?

Joke.. It was Kodachrome.