My First Build Thread, and a long time comin' Options

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So...technically I started this restoration a month ago, but now it has a thread (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

A little history...This was my first car. I picked it up for $1200 back in high school and had it towed home with mice in the glove box and hoses going to no where in the engine compartment! My dad and I had it up and running off and on for three years before I shipped off to southern California for college. It has sat in the 'rents driveway for 5 years now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) waiting for the restoration that it deserves

Well...now that I'm edumacated and have a "real" job (and also have moved back to Northern California) my pockets are slightly deeper than in high school and the build has commenced!



So far I have stripped it to a tub, built me a rotisserie and washed off about 30 years of road grime and PO molestation. Along the way I even made a new friend! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

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Got a few more hours in yesterday. Re-installed the engine (I'm starting to get the feeling that I'll be very good at this soon), finished drilling the holes for the front engine mount plates and even got the nutserts installed for the fuel pump.

Here's the front engine mount. Only thing left here to do is trim down excess metal and paint!



Nutserts for the fuel pump. It looks a bit messy right now on the top side since I used the extra epoxy to fill in holes left by the original fuel sender. Tonight I should be able to remove the tape I used as a backing material and sand it all down nice and smooth. I probably would have been OK welding it (It's been empty for 4+ years), but I just didn't feel like trying it alone at 11 PM without a fire extinguisher. Since the holes are all located where the gasket material covers this is more for good measure anyways. This pic really brings out the "patina" inside my gas tank!