Cleaning and prepping small parts here.  Also sending out final batch of parts to the plating shop.

I am surprised that Motorsports does not yellow zinc plate their engine parts (two shown below) but it works out fine as I am sending parts to the pate shop anyway.

Disassembled the bumpers to prep for new chrome plating.  Looks like the bumperette rubber is in descent shape and can be re-used. That is good news as those peices are pretty hard to find.  The trim rubber is cracked and oxidized so we will replace those.

Cleaned and painted the front grill. 

Also, got a new fuel pump and installed that.   Looks much nicer and closer to the original  than the standard auto part fuel pump.  I had an old original style pump that I removed the screws and fittings from and sent out with the last batch of plating parts.  I will probably swap out the clear zinc fasteners and fitting for the yellow zinc parts once they come back from the plating shop just to get a bit closer to the original look.

Here are the latest pics from the body shop. We are pretty far along on the outside portion of the body, doglegs and inner panels have been fixed along with a number of other rust areas.  Once the floor pans are finished up we should be in pretty good shape.

Exciting!  Everything is looking great.  Can't wait until you have it back and start putting it together.

11 minutes ago, The Orange said:

 Can't wait until you have it back and start putting it together.

Same here. This is always the longest part of the project.  Engine, suspension and drivetrain are all ready to install once the body shows up.

Cleaned and painted the drive shaft today......now I just need a car ?

Started polishing the slotted mags.  Will have to check the date on the tires here as they seem to be older and may need to be replaced.  They are Uniroyal 'Tiger Paws'.  I am old enough to remember the commercial for these tires.

 Getting a  little impatient here waiting for the body.

Edited April 15, 20204 yr by motorman7

Got parts back from the plating shop. They always do very nice work.

It's always a good day when the freshly plated parts comes in, never gets old.

1 hour ago, grannyknot said:

It's always a good day when the freshly plated parts comes in, never gets old.

I totally agree, my wife calls it car jewelry!

Edited April 20, 20204 yr by motorman7

More pics from the body shop. It is really getting pretty close now.  Nice to see.

On 4/20/2020 at 1:44 PM, motorman7 said:

Got parts back from the plating shop. They always do very nice work.

Really enjoy seeing you making progress.  I was thinking about getting one of these to do the prep work on the hardware before sending it off.  Any thoughts on using a tumbler vs. hand prepping with wire wheel?    

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG4h-TU92-A

I need to start prepping everything so I can send everything to be plated, but only have a 4.5 grinder (on which I can put a wire wheel attachment) - not a buffer on a stand with a wire wheel.

Edited April 25, 20204 yr by inline6