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We have a lot of ditch weed around here. Not good to smoke from what I hear. 75 years ago there was a lot of hemp grown in the area. When you see a clump growing in a ditch next to a farm driveway it makes you wonder if someone didn't have to dump out a bag because they got pulled over. Probably for driving too slow. :rofl:
 
71340Duster said:
How bad is your floor, full replacement or patch? Good luck and hope you can stay in your budget.
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I already have a full front floor and both rockers both inside and outside from AMD.
All four footwells have a bunch of holes and since both rockers are rotten in a bunch of places i think the only part of the floor pan worth saving is the transmission/driveshafttunnel. will also be a bunch of repairjobb to get the leafspringmounts happy again and therefore cutting out those corners of the floorboards aswell.
Its not one of those floors with huge holes in it,just endless amounts of small holes but we all know where those goes over time.
And there is alot more rotten parts to replace on that car later on this is just to get the car to become a rolling restoration instead of rottting garagequencarcass,in all fairness the body is not worth saving if it was not for the sentimental value it holds to me being my first car and the endless amounts of memorys in and with that car.

Thank you i hope this goes well.
 
1Fast340 said:
I already have a full front floor and both rockers both inside and outside from AMD.
All four footwells have a bunch of holes and since both rockers are rotten in a bunch of places i think the only part of the floor pan worth saving is the transmission/driveshafttunnel. will also be a bunch of repairjobb to get the leafspringmounts happy again and therefore cutting out those corners of the floorboards aswell.
Its not one of those floors with huge holes in it,just endless amounts of small holes but we all know where those goes over time.
And there is alot more rotten parts to replace on that car later on this is just to get the car to become a rolling restoration instead of rottting garagequencarcass,in all fairness the body is not worth saving if it was not for the sentimental value it holds to me being my first car and the endless amounts of memorys in and with that car.
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Sounds like a car from here in Iowa.
 
1Fast340 said:
I already have a full front floor and both rockers both inside and outside from AMD.
All four footwells have a bunch of holes and since both rockers are rotten in a bunch of places i think the only part of the floor pan worth saving is the transmission/driveshafttunnel. will also be a bunch of repairjobb to get the leafspringmounts happy again and therefore cutting out those corners of the floorboards aswell.
Its not one of those floors with huge holes in it,just endless amounts of small holes but we all know where those goes over time.
And there is alot more rotten parts to replace on that car later on this is just to get the car to become a rolling restoration instead of rottting garagequencarcass,in all fairness the body is not worth saving if it was not for the sentimental value it holds to me being my first car and the endless amounts of memorys in and with that car.

Thank you i hope this goes well.
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Nothing wrong with saving that car, easy road isn't always the best road imo
 
toolmanmike said:
We have a lot of ditch weed around here. Not good to smoke from what I hear. 75 years ago there was a lot of hemp grown in the area. When you see a clump growing in a ditch next to a farm driveway it makes you wonder if someone didn't have to dump out a bag because they got pulled over. Probably for driving too slow. :rofl:
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My mom lived in Omaha for a while... One of her friends married a guy who had a farm just over the border in Iowa... Pot grows wild there, they say that if they try to cut it all down, it just keeps growing back (it's a weed), so they just let it be....

They took us horse back riding there... It was kinda scary for me, because they gave me the horse that's related to the clydesdale breed... He was a little stubborn and did not want to go where I was trying to steer him... He started following their one ton bull that likes to push trees over with his head just for fun... I tried to stop him or get him to go another direction, but he kept walking toward the bull... Then the owner's son gave me the crop to hit him when he misbehaved, and then he started behaving.... I kept telling the horse not to follow that one, you don't want to mess with him if he likes to tip over full grown trees, but he wouldn't listen to me until the owner stepped in and got him back in line... Sure, he was a 700 + lb horse, but it's no match for a one ton bull...
 
1Fast340 said:
I already have a full front floor and both rockers both inside and outside from AMD.
All four footwells have a bunch of holes and since both rockers are rotten in a bunch of places i think the only part of the floor pan worth saving is the transmission/driveshafttunnel. will also be a bunch of repairjobb to get the leafspringmounts happy again and therefore cutting out those corners of the floorboards aswell.
Its not one of those floors with huge holes in it,just endless amounts of small holes but we all know where those goes over time.
And there is alot more rotten parts to replace on that car later on this is just to get the car to become a rolling restoration instead of rottting garagequencarcass,in all fairness the body is not worth saving if it was not for the sentimental value it holds to me being my first car and the endless amounts of memorys in and with that car.

Thank you i hope this goes well.
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I always wondered where the holes went after they got bigger.... Where do the small starter holes go when they get bigger???? Do they fall through the big hole????

I started with nothing and still have most of it left.... :BangHead:
 
toolmanmike said:
Sounds like a car from here in Iowa.
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I guess you have salted roads in the winter?
This car was actualy sold new here in Sweden in 1973 then on the road until 82 when it was in a crash,got repaired and styled according to the style of the day and back on the road in 83 with her pressent fiberglasshood white paint and stripes and the whole interior covered in blue crushed velvet with a painted underside with absolutly no rustprotection only to parked in a barn in 84, she then never saw daylight again until the PO somehow found the car and managed to buy her in the winter 2001,he said the interiorwork was very well done but the crushed velvet was covered in mold so he had to rip that out,then drove the thing for a summer and i bought the car that winter with only alitle rust in the rockers and rearfenders,and foolishly drove the car that whole winter on the salted roads and im certainly paying for it now,i will never drive something i care for again in the winters.
 
krazykuda said:
I always wondered where the holes went after they got bigger.... Where do the small starter holes go when they get bigger????

I started with nothing and still have most of it left.... :BangHead:
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The smaller holes migrate to other places where no holes used to be only to be replaced by bigger holes,im more concerende about where the big ones come from :/
Regarding horses,those are scary things,a huge amount of muscle with its own idea about where they may want to go,only thing worse is bigger animals with even more strenght.
 
1Fast340 said:
I guess you have salted roads in the winter?
This car was actualy sold new here in Sweden in 1973 then on the road until 82 when it was in a crash,got repaired and styled according to the style of the day and back on the road in 83 with her pressent fiberglasshood white paint and stripes and the whole interior covered in blue crushed velvet with a painted underside with absolutly no rustprotection only to parked in a barn in 84, she then never saw daylight again until the PO somehow found the car and managed to buy her in the winter 2001,he said the interiorwork was very well done but the crushed velvet was covered in mold so he had to rip that out,then drove the thing for a summer and i bought the car that winter with only alitle rust in the rockers and rearfenders,and foolishly drove the car that whole winter on the salted roads and im certainly paying for it now,i will never drive something i care for again in the winters.
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Yep, lots of salt. The latest thing is they spray a liquid salt brine solution that get's in places where the granular stuff never did. It eats cars, concrete and steel bridges.
 
Here they use that and some liquid said to be made from beets. It is a greenish color that looks like you are leaking antifreeze from everywhere. Mostly use that before a big snow or ice storm. Many cars/trucks 5 years old are all rusty already. Nothing like rust before payments are finished. It would take a lot of convincing to ever buy something new here again...
 
toolmanmike said:
Me too. I was looking for a photo of one I took at a local car show. Couldn't find the photo but it was creative. Every time you look you could find another detail. My buddy does more resto mod trucks with patina. Thet have LS crate engines and 4l60/80e trannys and Ford 8.8 rears. He has Boss do custom interiors and the frames are boxed and the suspension is air ride. Not really a rat rod like your machines 71GSS.
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I think we're gonna end up doing either a full box frame on this or maybe even swap it onto a G body frame.

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I made ours from scratch from 2x4x3/16 steel tubing. Way more than we will ever need.
 

1Fast340 said:
I guess you have salted roads in the winter?
This car was actualy sold new here in Sweden in 1973 then on the road until 82 when it was in a crash,got repaired and styled according to the style of the day and back on the road in 83 with her pressent fiberglasshood white paint and stripes and the whole interior covered in blue crushed velvet with a painted underside with absolutly no rustprotection only to parked in a barn in 84, she then never saw daylight again until the PO somehow found the car and managed to buy her in the winter 2001,he said the interiorwork was very well done but the crushed velvet was covered in mold so he had to rip that out,then drove the thing for a summer and i bought the car that winter with only alitle rust in the rockers and rearfenders,and foolishly drove the car that whole winter on the salted roads and im certainly paying for it now,i will never drive something i care for again in the winters.
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So it's a 73?

You guys who live in rust zones scare me with the cars that come from there.

I am not used to rust.
 
dukeboy_318 said:
I think we're gonna end up doing either a full box frame on this or maybe even swap it onto a G body frame.

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Box the frame you have. A friend put a 35 Dodge Pick up on a Dakota frame and it fought him all the way. The factory frames are plenty strong with some boxing in the proper places. Jeremy grafted a Dakota front and welded in a 4 link for the rear.
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1Fast340 said:
I already have a full front floor and both rockers both inside and outside from AMD.
All four footwells have a bunch of holes and since both rockers are rotten in a bunch of places i think the only part of the floor pan worth saving is the transmission/driveshafttunnel. will also be a bunch of repairjobb to get the leafspringmounts happy again and therefore cutting out those corners of the floorboards aswell.
Its not one of those floors with huge holes in it,just endless amounts of small holes but we all know where those goes over time.
And there is alot more rotten parts to replace on that car later on this is just to get the car to become a rolling restoration instead of rottting garagequencarcass,in all fairness the body is not worth saving if it was not for the sentimental value it holds to me being my first car and the endless amounts of memorys in and with that car.

Thank you i hope this goes well.
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I totally understand the feelings. My dart has some attatchment also.
Its a wreck, i intend in driving it again. After it being gone for 24 years.
 
I think I read somewhere that red sauce foods are good for slower burning energy and are great for physically active people .....I think??
I am going to be climbing trees today so I better charge up
 
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