My First Build Thread, and a long time comin' Options

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So...technically I started this restoration a month ago, but now it has a thread (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

A little history...This was my first car. I picked it up for $1200 back in high school and had it towed home with mice in the glove box and hoses going to no where in the engine compartment! My dad and I had it up and running off and on for three years before I shipped off to southern California for college. It has sat in the 'rents driveway for 5 years now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) waiting for the restoration that it deserves

Well...now that I'm edumacated and have a "real" job (and also have moved back to Northern California) my pockets are slightly deeper than in high school and the build has commenced!



So far I have stripped it to a tub, built me a rotisserie and washed off about 30 years of road grime and PO molestation. Along the way I even made a new friend! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

[skeates]

Got some time in over the last couple of weeks on the teener. Sometimes I feel like I spend hours in the garage ticking-off a lots of "to-dos" and yet at the end of the day you'd have to know exactly where to look to notice any differences! The tub is almost ready to begin bolting all the new pretty parts to it. Here's the cliff notes version:

- Finished installing Elephant front bushings
- Rebuilt pedal cluster
- welded on a missing chunk of body panel
- Picked up some autobody hammers & dollies (and started learning how to use them)
- Ground down a bunch of welds to make room for long stiffening kit
- Tacked in the long stiffening kit
- Disassembled the steering rack for cleaning
- Dry fitted front sway bar
I've got flares and the rest of my suspension ordered and hopefully on their way soon. I'm hoping to have this thing back on wheels before June...that way I can still use my birthday as an excuse to buy the drivetrain (IMG:style_emoticons/default/birthday3.gif)