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63Ragtop

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  1. Yes not something you would do straight off first. Know what they say man, if you're going through hell, keep going!
  2. Fukin kraut ruat buckets eh? I don't know how you can do it man, seems hard enough building a mostly stock car, must be a zillion time harder!
  3. had some help last night with the windows, cost me a fare few beers but sooooooo much easier!! Was dreading the rear window, but with 3 lads applying even pressure on the out side and me pulling the cord ( I use a old piece of plastic coated washing line) it went in smooth as butter. plus some dish soap for lube.The front one was a little harder, lucky for me my car has a massive hole in the roof and I could just stand up on the seats and give the screen a good push or thump which helped alot.yeah.
  4. Top work mate, pipes look good even if lack of space has stuffed the design, will still go like a cut cat on rails! Seat belts are lush as! will have to do something like that one day on mine, horrible generic repco ones are ugly as shit.
  5. At the risk of sounding like a teenage girl, but OMG!has it been THAT long??!I guess so. this is a shit of a job.I did get one side window in, woo who.closer.you're next sucker!
  6. thanks 10speed, also thought warming them up might help soften then up, as it was pretty cold last night, stick them under the work lights. Yep Cal look coz one piece door windows, I like em to all match.
  7. I got the new window seals from the metric nut on Friday but didn't have time on the weekend to start fitting them, I did clean and prime the sunroof bows and fit the speedo cable.So some progress made. pictures.like the surface of the moon.orange primer is better than the other orange stuff.cleaned rear glass, tired to put seal on, couldn't, went to bed.I finally fixed the lights in the shed, the three lights that run down the middle have always been dodgee as, the bulbs never sat right and never seemed to last very long, didn't really bother as with the spit I could just turn the shell to the light if a needed to see a certain area, a week or so the last bulb popped with a bang and I've been using my phone/worklight heaps and losing everything in the gloom, so after work on Saturday I dropped into the supermarket to pick up some bulbs and bugger me if old school bulbs a hard to find now!?Anyway I replaced all three fittings without dying, and stuck two(pair were on special) LED bulbs in.Let There Be Light!! Jausis they bright, 1400 loomans each, bright white, fuck I wish I'd done this before I'd built the door up! so much better.
  8. so cool! good to see you are being safe with earmuffs, but barefeet??! haha, kiwikids huh? Steering looks a bit twitchy/quick?
  9. wheels and lows make it look so much betterer.
  10. I must admit I've been spending quite a bit of time just staring at this thing, is that my car?it's come out even better than I'd hoped.nearly done with these bloody windows! screwed the felts in place.managed to get the scrapers to stay put, factory one piece window anyone? it's taken a lot of work but they are working well now, no rattles when you close the door, with the glass up or down, only a small 2-3cm gap at the front of the scraper, not bad."new" black door cards in place, handles on.I bought these NOS 67' window winders nearly twenty years ago, I get to use them now.I'm using 67 dash knobs to match these to keep the mostly black and chrome theme but also as a wee nod to my old 67, first love and all that, plus I like them more than the skinny early 60's ones.polished and fitted the rails the other night also.started taking the rag mech apart, pretty rusty.got the bows back today, looking much better!should look good after a wire wheel and paint.
  11. I feel the wiring is going to beat me on this thing, I've got 98% all hooked up and I'm sure correct, but the last few details are tripping me up. things like the wiper motor and switch which is because they are 2speed and from a later car they appear to need a couple extra wires, also the Alternator for the same reasons.Adding to the confusion is the loom seems to be missing a few small, separate small wires, like the one for the speedo light and one for the flasher unit, both of which I was able to salvage from the old looms.I'll be happy if anything works and it don't catch on fire!Also had a frustrating night last night trying to get the door window scrapers in, or rather to stay in! very tight work and my fingertips are sore today, was hoping to have the drivers door finished last night, but by 1am I had to give up!help!
  12. Go a bit more done over the weekend.zapped those door window winder things for 24 hours in the elecro-bath, came up pretty good!this process is just amazing! check it out!got the winder mechs painted and in.went and found all the seats and stuff, this is were it's been hiding for the last near ten years!got the VHT vinyl paint onto the door cards, one can used, will need more for the back seat, it says it works on fabric also, so I might do the fronts to match.I was kind of expecting the seats to be moldy or full of rat shit or cat piss, but they're as clean as when I bagged them up, which saved a job. Darrell helped me out AGAIN cleaned up the ol carpets and bung em in.big ugly rubber mats coz daily driver can still see my ass print! haha.not bad seats, if you squint they almost look like recaros. get in that hole you!door cards ready, spent a bit of time last night getting the window glass to work nicely, so soon.door scrapers, polished sunroof rails and door glass sills.sunroof mech, really in need of a full body off resto as well.all still working well though.cover has seen better days.top of the front bow.back and front together, getting them both drip stripped, hopefully there will be something left?? I imagine these are the most expensive parts on this pile!And!Front bumper and runningboards as well as seats and carpets! god damn it's almost a car!kids had to take it for a spin when they got home.
  13. Yep, this thing is a badmutherfucker. That is all.
  14. It's been a long fucking road Goat, nearly there! Just used what I had K-trips, will keep a eye on it, they are both much easier to wind now, bugs are so simple it take about 3.5miuntes to disassemble a door. Chur!
  15. Turn out they do work the same as the single reds, BUT! because the actual winder plate is pressed together over the tube, the inner wire could only go so far before the mounts would reach the plate and could go no mo. I gave them both a good clean and smooshed as much grease as I could back inside, that'll bloody do.
  16. Cheers k-trips, thats a huge help bro, you're right, mine is the two point regulator, these are better for the one piece glass my car has, let's see if it comes apart the same.
  17. continuing with my stupid daily updates.so fresh and so clean.nice to have all the trim on.don't think I've posted a pic of the Mighty wildcat in place yet.started cleaning up the window mechs, they have been hanging on the wall for the last couple years and are very dirty and crappy looking, anyone have any tips on re-greasing them? or how to clean out the old dried out stuff?was hoping to give them a lick of gray paint, but dunno how that will work with all that grease everywhere?love the way everything is date stamped, this one must be from my old 67, same date as the speedo I kept.made by Golde like the sunroofs?found the next candidate for a swim in the electrolysis bath I think.Also fitted door rubbers, door switches and interior light and ran the wire up the A pillar to hook it all together. Installed the glovebox after giving the back of it a quick matthew black to tidy it up, all of which I forgot to photograph, damn. anyone know where to buy vinyl paint for the door cards?
  18. You can expect the roar of tires at a maximum speed of 80kph. My fatherinlaw had a couple of these, two with 202s in them, until he went all fancy and got a V8 one. made me laugh coz he's from northern England, Bloody Grand is that one boyo! Please don't paint it, it looks awesome!
  19. and now for some real fun.being the incredible tightass I am, I'd only orders enough trim clips that I needed, thinking I'll just reuse the old ones. Well the old ones look like shit, very rusty shit. I also needed to clean the rust off the window scraper clips for the door glass and the metric nut only had a handfull of these in stock.So, electrolysis is my new favorite word! I was talking to the acid stripper guys about these small parts but he said the acids can take the carbon out of the spring steel and ruin them, then I remembered reading about electrolysis on OS,did some research and came up with this.dissolve some of this in water.fashion a crude metal tray to hold the small clips, optain metal bar for positive side.hook up 12volt battery charger and watch the fun begin.this was after 2 hours, didn't do a whole lot to the clips but sure cleaned up the metal tray!so I left it going all day in a quite corner at work, before/\/\and after/\/\. seemed to flash rust while drying, so I gave em a quick wire wheel and painted them last night.
  20. all these small things take some much time.details details details. cleaned up door swtiches.stuck foam stuff under the tank.front end looking nearly complete!this is the problem with my old 67 fuel sender, if It's any where near full it will leak and ruin any new paint. any suggestions on how to fix this small but important issue, would be great, or should I give up and convert to the electric gauge as my gauge wire thing is bung as anyway.
  21. Yeah, as small a gap as possible the better, try less heat and another trick I found is to have the wire sticking out of the gun more, this changes the voltage/whatever at the weld just enough sometime to make it work, are you grinding that zinc coating off the new metal? that shits nasty and fucked my welds up.
  22. ticked a couple more things off the job list. you can just about see the steering wheel there. and managed to finally remove the old wiper switch.shoulda done that before I painted the flippin thing!, luckily no paint was harmed in cutting it out with the dremel.Cleaned up a couple things.and painted them.polished up some other things.and got the first bits of trim on, swoon.
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