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still not as many pics as i wanted but the car moved for the first time on over 5 years! I took off this week from work so i could go to work and work on my dart there :P lucky I work as a ford mechanic at my local ford dealer. so now i get to work on the car inside and with a lift. I work on...

been working on the car for a while now haven't post in a bit. adjusted my valves by moon light not too long ago. I forgot my phone for I forgot my phone for a day or two so i dont have any pics of taping the car before priming. but that's the first coat of primer.

still no good. this one doesn't look bad but i could put my finger threw the bottom of the lip so a no go to. this car had a good one it was my last car too so a good thing. so now my car looks like this until i get the trunk sanded down and primed.

got some good work on the car today 9/12/2020. I started with the back side of the hood. started with some sanding but then found some rust. so I found some metal and made a patch. cut some off and with a metal break a new hood brace. drilled a few holes and a little bit of die grinder...

got some more work done on monday 9/7/2020 got 3 of my 4 fender ext. cleaned. got some primer and finally got the rh 1/4 in primer this is just the base coat of primer it still needs to be sanded smooth and then hopefully just apply one more coat after the primer has been fine sanded.

i used a 74 dart for a parts car so i could have disc brakes and the 5 x 4.5 bolt pattern. i was going to a big block too so i actually set the motor in the car on the 74 when i had everything welded and together i took the whole sub frame off that 74 parts car then painted it and installed new...

got some good time into today 9/5/2020. started with some more filler work on 1/4 and some more still need some more and that is where we stopped today on the 1/4 have some light spots to fill tomorrow and should be ready for some primer. also made a new weather seal for my truck out of...

nice i really like those wheels. i have a 71 demon too and it well get those wheels too at some point. what size tires are you using btw i have some 225/50 on mine right now but just because they were free tires off a hybrid fusion you know i need those fuel saving tires for my 383 :P

I did some shopping yesterday 9/1/2020 since it was raining again looking for some primer and paint. weather looks goof today should get some more work done tonight.

here is what i ended Sunday with didn't get to work on the car today 8/31/2020 was raining and was helping a buddy with his 302 miata. and one of my cat's even helped at the end of the day from Friday

Yea i cover it every night with the cover from the Tent/sun shade we have. It's coming along nicely got a lot of work done in a week so far (about 20 hours between my brother and me and our dad still give advice on what we are doing wrong).

got a lot of work done this weekend got the panel welded to the car then got some filler on it got some more filler on it but the pic didn't turn out right :P It's going to rain here for the next few days so i might not get to work on it some more until Wednesday hoping to have the car in...

no pics today 8/27/2020 got interrupted by rain got some of the 1/4 panel trimmed to fit the car last night hopeful to get it on tonight.

got the panel flange last night 8/26/2020. wielded in some box to strengthen the edge and got the rest of the old paint of the 1/4 trying for tonight to get the panel spot wielded on

oh nice car. I want to go to efi on my dart (1971 swinger with a 383/727 swap) have you had good luck with yours?