1966 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S - Restoration
So it's been a while since I've updated. I wrapped up all of the front end work, most of the rubber was beyond end of life, so I'm glad I did.
More than a year later, the stripped body has been with a local painter for 7 months - and his health fell apart soon after dropping it off (multiple back surgeries). No clue what the timeline for getting the body back is. I dropped it off in September last year in bare metal with the expectation that it would be worked on, and only part of it has been sprayed in etching primer. No clue how bad the rest of the car is rusting, but I know it is. I don't have the heart to go see at this point and don't have the time, to be honest. My first child was born around the same time the car was dropped off, so I only get a few hours here and there to work on stuff. In the meantime, I've gone through and cleaned/painted all of the engine parts, horns, splash shields, welded in new trunk drop pieces, welded new lower quarters on both sides, rebuilt the A833 completely and repainted the exterior (that was the holiday work over Christmas this year), replaced the cable in the inland shifter and cleaned up that mechanism. If anyone wants pictures of any of the piecemeal parts that have been stripped, for any reason, let me know. Just don't have the energy to post photos regularly anymore. As I work on engine and body parts, I've been wrapping and tagging them, putting them into bins.
Got humiliated in the mechanical forum for calling it an inland marine shifter ... not sure why that keeps sticking in my head. Also got chewed for not being thankful enough to those answering questions. Don't really care, but when I get the body done and back, I'll try to keep documenting as I go so hopefully someone else gets some benefit. Every question someone posts will probably help someone else, so keep on humiliating the one asking questions, as long as the questions are answered, someone might benefit.
These are the last two photos I have of the body. At this point, it might be another several years before I finish the car, but I'm still chugging along slowly on what I do have to work on here. The body, I may be recovering this summer at a heavy loss if I don't see progress soon.
So it's been a while since I've updated. I wrapped up all of the front end work, most of the rubber was beyond end of life, so I'm glad I did.
More than a year later, the stripped body has been with a local painter for 7 months - and his health fell apart soon after dropping it off (multiple back surgeries). No clue what the timeline for getting the body back is. I dropped it off in September last year in bare metal with the expectation that it would be worked on, and only part of it has been sprayed in etching primer. No clue how bad the rest of the car is rusting, but I know it is. I don't have the heart to go see at this point and don't have the time, to be honest. My first child was born around the same time the car was dropped off, so I only get a few hours here and there to work on stuff. In the meantime, I've gone through and cleaned/painted all of the engine parts, horns, splash shields, welded in new trunk drop pieces, welded new lower quarters on both sides, rebuilt the A833 completely and repainted the exterior (that was the holiday work over Christmas this year), replaced the cable in the inland shifter and cleaned up that mechanism. If anyone wants pictures of any of the piecemeal parts that have been stripped, for any reason, let me know. Just don't have the energy to post photos regularly anymore. As I work on engine and body parts, I've been wrapping and tagging them, putting them into bins.
Got humiliated in the mechanical forum for calling it an inland marine shifter ... not sure why that keeps sticking in my head. Also got chewed for not being thankful enough to those answering questions. Don't really care, but when I get the body done and back, I'll try to keep documenting as I go so hopefully someone else gets some benefit. Every question someone posts will probably help someone else, so keep on humiliating the one asking questions, as long as the questions are answered, someone might benefit.
These are the last two photos I have of the body. At this point, it might be another several years before I finish the car, but I'm still chugging along slowly on what I do have to work on here. The body, I may be recovering this summer at a heavy loss if I don't see progress soon.