New build thread; 48 Plymouth

[Dave Severson]

Always fun when they go back on the frame for the last time....Not like your done or anything, but you can see the end from there!!!! Car is looking good Falcon, bit of time on the firewall now and it'll be ready!!

[falconvan]

Thanks, Dave. Yeah, still a long way to go for sure. Time wise and $$ wise both. At least for now I can sit in it and make Vroom Vroom noises.

[falconvan]

Just got back yesterday from a weeks vacation at Lake of the Ozarks. Very relaxing, just a week of fishing and reading. No email, internet, TV, or work; I feel like a new man. I spent today on the car before I have to go back to work tomorrow. Just did a couple small things but it took most of the day. I built a drop and a floor mount for the steering column along with figuring out the mount for the master cylinder and finished modifying the brake pedal bracket.

[falconvan]

A few more......

[falconvan]

Last few. Good to be home; I'm ready to see some primer on this baby. Hopefully not too much longer.

[1gary]

Keep the progress coming bud.Very cool.

[falconvan]

Thanks, Gary. After 4+ years of working on this, we're finally ready to shoot some primer on it. I'm cleaning up half the garage to hang plastic and we're going to shoot it over the holiday weekend. I went and bought all the paint, primer, etc to do the whole car today. Going with a 95 Porsche color; Grand Prix White. Also got my Lokar shifter mounted so I can measure where to cut the whole in the floor.

[falconvan]

Ready for the weekend

[bluestang67]

Falcon some great work here just like I have seen you do in the past .

[Dave Severson]

first time in primer is always a good day!!!!

[falconvan]

Thanks guys, I'm so ready to see some color on this thing even if it is primer gray. We were taping the body last night and talking about what life was like when this car was coming off the assembly line. WWII had only been over a short time, rock n roll hadn't been invented, if you were gay it meant you were happy and a pair of boobs referred to a couple of dumb guys. Times sure have changed.....

[lamin8r]

Looking good,falcon..yup,even primer can look good when you get to that stage..Lookin forward to seeing the finished article,,,as you will be.

[falconvan]

Yup, even primer can look good after you've been seeing it bare for so long. The finished product? That seems a long way off but it will get there.

[123pugsy]

That's better.

Looking good.

[Dave Severson]

I usually can only do body work for so long, then I've got to get some primer on it just to see how things are coming along!!! I end up doing the whole thing a couple times with high build primer and lots more blocking!!!! Looks a bunch better, Falcon! Shooting primer is the easiest part of the job, but it sure looks like you got a lot done when you shoot it!!!!!