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PostPosted: Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:32 pm
rjuhasz wrote:I painted the other wheel well and then go hit with a big list of wood work projects from my wife and then my daughter in law as well, so I haven't touched the car in a couple weeks :knockout: :knockout: I hope to at least get a little bit of time in the shop soon :rolleyes:


Man I understand that completely. I have been out of commission for a while so I know there is a list out there just waiting for me. :flatten: :flatten: I even have some stuff I have been putting off :bored: :bored: :knockout:
it needs to be lowered with big and littles. .



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2014 7:58 am
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I completely understand the Helper Motivation thing :splat:

What happened to Mike?
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PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2014 8:47 pm
I know I have been bad about posting :whoops: :whoops: :whoops: :whoops: but I know you guys are busy so here is my update.. :happy:
we have the rear suspension modifications almost complete and here is a shot of the lowered mount for the rear.
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We had flip all this from the top to the bottom to get clearance. :knockout: :knockout: hard to explain but picture the REAR rods mounting from the top being changed to the bottom
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I have been worried about registration for a long time as I lost the original paperwork :realmad: :splat: :cry: :cry: , talk about stupid. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :shocked: Anyway we found out that if we put the body on the frame with the original vin tag on the body it could be registered so guess what we did :flatten: :flatten: .

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It is registered now :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: . I'll have more in the next day or so I PROMICE :shocked: :shocked: :rotfl:
it needs to be lowered with big and littles. .

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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2014 10:34 am
That looks great Doug!!! I can only imagine what a great handling ride that will be :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy:

I'm a bit confused on the registration? You lost the papers but they just let you register it off the VIN? Up here if you don't have the regies you're pretty much done for unless you already had registered it in your name previously, or you can track down the previous owner and drag him with you to an insurance place.

I have the bottom of the car totally ready to paint, just need to find the time, been crazy busy with other stuff. :rolleyes:
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PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2014 2:58 pm
rjuhasz wrote:That looks great Doug!!! I can only imagine what a great handling ride that will be :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy:

I'm a bit confused on the registration? You lost the papers but they just let you register it off the VIN? Up here if you don't have the regies you're pretty much done for unless you already had registered it in your name previously, or you can track down the previous owner and drag him with you to an insurance place.

I have the bottom of the car totally ready to paint, just need to find the time, been crazy busy with other stuff. :rolleyes:


Isn't retirement wonderful, you get so busy you cant get anything done :flatten: :flatten: :knockout:


Did you get the bottom painted?

Dennis you still out there?

The car got registered and licensed as a 1938 Chevrolet master 2dr sedan :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: I had to give a statement of fact that the car was newly constructed and that I lost the paperwork. Now to get it changed over to my 1938 YAM plates, I here they get $200 just to see if they can be used :splat: :splat: . Hope I can they will look KOOL :rockon: :rockon:
it needs to be lowered with big and littles. .

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PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2014 10:21 am
Still haven't done the floor :whoops: I found a few more little things to fix under there and it's all masked off and ready to go but this retirement business is so time consuming :knockout: :knockout: :knockout: We're going to a big swap meet this weekend and then I will be painting the floor, promise :wink:

I had to google the YAM plate thing, never heard of that. Nice that you were able to register it without much hassle :goodjob:

Dennis has been hiding for a while now, thought we'd have a firebird update
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PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2014 3:49 pm
Sorry I meant YOM Year of Manufacture. Guess you figured that out :splat: :rotfl: :rotfl:

It is to hot here to do anything 102F 39.5C :knockout: :knockout: :shocked:
it needs to be lowered with big and littles. .

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PostPosted: Fri May 16, 2014 9:59 am
Doug's 38 2dr sedan wrote:Sorry I meant YOM Year of Manufacture. Guess you figured that out :splat: :rotfl: :rotfl:

It is to hot here to do anything 102F 39.5C :knockout: :knockout: :shocked:


The old plates would look sweet. You can run them here but there's restrictions as usual, I think it needs to be bone stock, at least I've never seen one on a rod or custom. We also have collector insurance but that comes with it's own unique plates. I have that on the Riv, costs about 1/5th of regular insurance :goodjob:

Wow 102F :splat: :splat: It's been the nicest spring up here that I can remember, 65 - 75F everyday and sunny, hardly any rain at all, very strange but great. :happy: :happy: :happy:
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PostPosted: Tue May 20, 2014 8:22 pm
Well I got the bottom of the floor primered in this rust destroyer type primer, hope it's as good as I've read. Most of the floor is new but all the heavy structural stuff was solid but with a lot of pitting that you would have to sandblast to really get into, and as you know I didn't have the car blasted. I need to wait 48 hours to topcoat and I can finally move on to something else. :knockout:

We went to a swap meet in Munroe, Washington on the weekend, we've been before and can't believe how big the swap meets you guys have. It was great :goodjob: :goodjob:

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PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2014 4:12 pm
Bottom of floor finally done :goodjob:

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Picked this up at the swap meet for the grandkids to play with, though it was pretty cool, 1955 I think :rockon:

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