Hope you guys had a good turkey day! Yes you're right Doug, ours was Oct 13th, so a while ago.

I managed to make my own hinge clip from a small paper clip, pretty happy with it actually, it's a really odd one that the parts stores don't sell. I've got a Dynacorn repop fender coming that I don't have to accept if it's bad, it should be a lot better than the previous one from some mystery manufacturer so fingers crossed.

Going to a pretty cool estate sale auction this weekend, an amazing amount of interesting stuff. There's also a 51 Studebaker convertible basketcase, sure hope it goes for big money or I might end up owning it if it's cheap

Cant say I would be shy around a 51 My self Rob

Well Calvin has really started turning around we spent whole weekend together Saturday had us out in some Pick a Part Junk yard Pulling a 351 Windsor out of some truck and yesterday pulling the blown up 302 out of his little Fox body, Plan is to build the Windsor around a set of AFR heads that came off the Blown up 302 that was in the car when we got it, its been sitting hear for a while now and hes just starting to get into it how I got finagled into helping and the Corvette project got put on hold Im still scratching my head about.

It should make an easy 500hp when all said and done that will make for a fun little grocery getter for sure, Putting a stock 302 Back in for now till 351 is built.

What do you wanna bet that if I want that Corvette gone I have to put it back together

I'm delighted to report I didn't buy the bulet nose. As cool as it could be all done I need another project like a hole in the head. It went for a reasonable price but more than I was willing to pay, especially as it had no registration, just a bill of sale from the guy that sold it to the current owner and from Washington at that. Up here that makes it darn near impossible to register unless you have a friend on the inside that can help.

I did get a bunch of cool stuff though so I'm happy

I hope Calvin can handle all that power when the car is built, that's a lot in a little fox body.

Pretty sure if you want to sell the vette you'd get a lot more assembled. Hard to know if you have all the parts if they're in boxes. The Stude was like that, completely dissassembled with boxes full of parts

He is still tinkering cant believe he had me out there helping pull the 351

I was playing with the Pontiac today for a while

Good to see you guys are still busy. I've been going out to Dave's about three days working on my car best I could. We're building some shields now it's a going to be so low I don't want to tear out the underside of the car on speed bumps.

Dennis I'm glad to see you're you're making progress.

Rob I am I'm glad you didn't get another project although that would be a very neat one

Working on panel fitting and getting all the gaps as good as possible. That was going pretty well until I added the recently aquired dynacorn repop fender and the shelby hood I've had from them for a while. The fender is significantly better than the one from an unknown manufacturer I tried recently. You can work with this one although it needs a fair bit of it

The flange that runs straight down from the top of the fender needs to be reshaped and bent in a couple places and the back corner of it where it meets the cowl was 1/2" low so that needed the brace bent and the whole thing yanked upward. Came out pretty good. There's a bracket on the lower A-pillar that the fender bolts to from the inner quarter that needed the hole stretched backward so the fender could move back enough. Also the hole on the bottom of the fender that attaches to the rocker needed some metal added and then the hole stretched again

Now that it's as good as it can get with all the adjustments I need to add metal to the edge by the door as the gap is unexceptable

I'll add some pics later, computer isn't behaving at the moment

I'm going to have to add some metal to the fender to get the gap between the door right, it's pretty good at the bottom of the fender and then tapers away as you go up to almost a 3/8" gap

I put some tape behind the gap to make it easier to see

I tightened up a gap on the other side by adding welding rod so I'll be doing the same on the repop fender but a whole lot more of it

More headaches to follow

Hey looky there PROGRESS !!!!!

Lovin it !!!!

I been ah you know? mmm errr how to explain ..... been lazy ? lol

Calvins Mustang is on the lift and engine sat in there but I stopped when I couldn't get the dam tranny to stab into the Pilot bushing in the crank, told him pull the tranny first as it would be easier but would he listen? no, Who gets to go out and do it rite? me
He listens to every one but me oh ya it can be done monkey around with it long enough ya it will go I know that.

Any way I just kinda stopped

Some progress but it is slow. I put the Shelby hood on, it's better than I remember, other than being about a 1/4" too narrow

I put up a thread on that on the fiberglass side of our site, hopefully Darrell can guide me through the process of adding onto it. You would like to think they could get the width right, I mean how difficult is that

I'm hanging all the front grill surround/valance stuff next before I add onto the fender.

I assume Calvin's stang is a manual trans, makes the mating to the engine so much more painful

The fenders aren't shimmed up yet to line up with the hood as you can see.

The offending gap

YIKES! That does look like a lot I was gonna say 1/4" or so isnt bad but that looks closer to a Half? fiberglass is not hard its actually very easy.

I have done a lot of fiberglass work it was aviation's first light weight composite material so A&P mechanics are required to know about it and other similar light weight materials carbon fiber Kevlar ect.....

If your gonna play with and don't know much about it you should pick up a book about it there is a lot to know different repair techniques different types of resins etc...

I wish there were more honesty out there about today's after market stuff.