First of the Texas Twins, First Build Options

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The original Body Tag is still attached to the right headlight bucket

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And of course the channel corners where the cowel meets the fenders are rusted out

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The firewall and gas tank area are in great shape

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The interior front half of the floor is in remarkably good condition as well

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The rear floor half has been replaced, but still has allot of cleaning up to do on the weld lines, etc. The underside where the two halves meet still needs to be welded, but that will have to wait until its on the rotisserie.

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The rear wall on the drivers side is solid, the passenger side may be a different story, bondo.....Hmmm

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The drivers door leaves a bit to be desired. The door itself is pretty solid, no rust, however the IPO tried to attach adjustable mirror to it and blasted out the mirror support underneath the skin and cut more holes. The door handle pocket is a bit rough as well. And of course the obligatory speaker hole cut to the inside of the door. But hey on a positive note the paint tag is still in the door frame....

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Passenger door is good except for the speaker hole and couple extra drille holes on the inside. Good and solid though, with no rust. You can see I already started repairing the speaker hole.

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The engine compartment was a mess when I first got the car. Of course the hell hole and engine shelf on the right side were toast, as was the inner right fender wall, All of that was cut out and replaced, but now needs to be finished. That damage of course worked its way into the right Long, but that was replaced as well. The drivers side wall has signs of crash damage but not too bad. It will definately need sand blasting though to get all the glue off of the fire wall. Most of the brown stuff is glue remnants, not rust though.

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Further inspection up under the drivers side fender shows that the fender has been replaced. As you can see in the picture the support structure underneath was never realligned nor was the wall damage properly straightened. However the fender replacement and alignment was done quite well.

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Inside the right rear fender well, you can see the repair panel installed for the engine compartment, also a ton of cleaning to do, but thinks look pretty solid at this point

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The rear trunk is good and solid, however the mounting points for the jack are missing and the new plug is where the PO tried to put an oil cooler in, so several extra holes to be welded up. The rear wall is in excellent shape, but as you can see in the picture, the trunk lid has damage to the rear left edge,

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The right side fender flares have already been placed but need to be finish welded. the right side front has been cut, but the left rear has not.

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So today is NASCAR race day so just killing some time before the race. Decided I would look at the Fuel Tank and work on dismantling it.The filler neck, fuel level sender and return line nipple came out very easily, however the feed line nipple and strainer screen took about 30 minute of penetrating oil and persuasion to remove.

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After getting the tank dismantled I found that the goo on the line nuts and such cleaned up nicely. The filter screen was trashed and I found the it was full of debris, on the inside of the screen, where it didnt belong. Surprised if this car ran at all before I got it.

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The inside of the tank is not pristine, but looks good for nearly 50 years of service. I now need to find someone in the area that can acid boil it and then I will have it powder coated and do the POR15 treatment inside. Do any of you Texas folks know of a place that can acid wash it for me?

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The inside of the tank is not pristine, but looks good for nearly 50 years of service. I now need to find someone in the area that can acid boil it and then I will have it powder coated and do the POR15 treatment inside. Do any of you Texas folks know of a place that can acid was it for me?

Do yourself a big favor and buy a new tank, now that they are available. I paid almost twice the cost of a new tank to have mine boiled out, and it removed all the attachment fixtures in the process. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/hissyfit.gif) I also didn't replace that problematic internal sock filter, much better to add an extra external filter in line.

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Any Advice on the best way to remove the windshield? I need to get it out so it doesnt suffer any damage. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sawzall-smiley.gif)

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The inside of the tank is not pristine, but looks good for nearly 50 years of service. I now need to find someone in the area that can acid boil it and then I will have it powder coated and do the POR15 treatment inside. Do any of you Texas folks know of a place that can acid was it for me?

Do yourself a big favor and buy a new tank, now that they are available. I paid almost twice the cost of a new tank to have mine boiled out, and it removed all the attachment fixtures in the process. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/hissyfit.gif) I also didn't replace that problematic internal sock filter, much better to add an extra external filter in line.

Thanks Jamie, I may just go that route. Considering the cost to clean it out, then treat the inside with POR 15 and then paint the outside.....

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Any Advice on the best way to remove the windshield? I need to get it out so it doesnt suffer any damage. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sawzall-smiley.gif)

So I tried using a thin copper wire and got about six inches around the windshield before that broke, tried a few strands wound together, al little further then the goop just clogged it up and no further. I wracked my brain and came up with some very thin welding wire......and 30 minutes later I had success.






Then it took another hour to get all of the mastic off of the window and another hour to scrape the majority of it off of the window frame. Man that stuff is nasty.