Having heard horror stories of cars burning down from janky wiring and old fuel lines, I boxed up the wiring harnesses and shipped them to Restoration Design in Guelph for inspection and replacement as necessary.
There were some stiff sections and corrosion and Peter K at RD said there were some shorts. Instead of repairing, I decided to replace the tunnel harness, lighting harness and main front trunk harness. I also replaced the main power cable to the starter.
Although I cleaned out the fuel tank, I got a great deal on a new tank so I dropped that off at the painter as the shell had just made its way from Auto Bauer to Sharp Touch Restorations.
Travis at Sharp Touch does absolutely incredible work. He had recently sold the hot rod portion of the shop and was just doing paint from his home based booth. I had secured my place in line about a year before and Travis had coordinated the media blasting and metalwork. One thing about working with Travis was that he takes a ton of pride in his work, his shop rate was about 20% lower than his competitors and there is no mark-up on his materials.
The next step was picking a colour. I've always liked the Tobacco Brown Metallic and was moments away from going with that for my build, but I kept coming back to Chalk. Travis made the decision that much easier when he said that for a car I want to drive and enjoy, Chalk is ideal since there is no pearl or metallic, in the event of a repair matching the paint would be a breeze.
I'm just not a fan of the Turbo tail, so I ordered up a ducktail from Getty. Although Getty has a great reputation for fitment, Travis wound up performing significant surgery to get the fit and profile just right, going so far to cut the decklid open and do "significant" fiberglass work. The stock steel decklid was smoothed and fit like a glove.
