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Originally Posted by Wayne 962
The plan is to get the car running and driving, and then to start going through the other suspension components. The car only has 3,000 miles on it, so the assumption (accurate or not) is that the mechanical / wear components on the car are not worn out.
Having said that, nearly every part on this car has been looked at or touched. Just to give an idea of the difficulty with this:
- Every brake component has been replaced
- The front part of the wire harness was reconstructed and replaced
- All the weatherstripping seals have been replaced
- The tires were replaced (good luck finding 12" performance tires these days - that took about 15 hours).
- The engine has been completely gone through
- New shocks
- New hardware in many places
- Electrical switches cleaned or replaced
- Headlamp motor / assemble rebuilt
- Accelerator linkage bolt custom made (took 3 hours tonight - the original was too small and broke)
- This suspension thing
- All fuel lines replaced - tanks cleaned, etc.
- Accelerator linkage rebuilt / replaced
- Heater core / blower rebuilt
- All new heater hoses (run down center of car)
- Ignition switch and turn signal switch rebuilt
- New stereo speakers
- Installed seat belts
- Rebuilt hub configuration
- Fuel pumps replaced, fuel console constructed and replaced.
The list is endless. There are no manuals, no documentation, no nuthin'. Every part is off of a random car from the 1969 era, and a big challenge is figuring out what exactly it is. This is indeed a huge time sink - one can't simply check the "parts diagrams" like you could do with a 911. Man, that would be easy for sure...
-Wayne
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So a typical weekend fix project!
I know a friend that started off with an 42 Ford coupe, and kept finding bodge fixes. He tore it down completely, and when he was done he had thousands of hours of labor and parts in a car that was worth a fraction of what he had invested. At least your new toy is a legitimate museum piece and has intrinsic value above the pile of parts and labor invested.