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Post by 58hemifury on Feb 2, 2015 20:04:40 GMT -5
It took 8 cans of SEM Camel SEM color coat can also be purchased in ready to spray quarts if you have a compressor and spray gun, it goes much further that way and is much cheaper. I pay almost $12.00 a spray can but only $50ish a quart at my dealership.
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Post by cynot on Feb 3, 2015 7:48:24 GMT -5
I had checked at the paint store by me where I got all my supplies and they told me they couldn't get it! I'll have to look into that, I still have all my door panels and trim to do
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Post by cynot on Feb 3, 2015 8:08:37 GMT -5
My drivers fender is toast, so I have been looking for a replacement since I started the build...yeah, good luck! I found a pair of NOS fenders on C-Body Dry Dock for $900 in Ohio, but the seller wouldn't separate. I continued to search for a while and finally decided to bite the bullet and pick up the pair of new fenders before someone else had. I contacted the seller and he sent me pics... he still wouldn't budge on the price or split them. Turns out the fenders were for a Royal Monaco, but he had them listed as a 74 Monaco. Wow, I wasn't about to spend that much money just to cut it up to make it work. So I continued to search with no luck and then 58hemifury hooked me up and located a bunch in junkyards around the country. I called around and had a nice left fender off of a Royal shipped to my work. I will still need to modify this fender, but I only paid $250 for this one including freight.
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Post by 58hemifury on Feb 3, 2015 21:39:06 GMT -5
Too bad it has a cornering lamp hole, but it sure looks solid. I wish I could have found you a '74 fender but the only one out there I know of is a right side, it's $250 plus shipping and it's pretty banged up, it's off of the same wood grain wagon as my left fender on my former Bluesmobile.
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Post by cynot on Feb 4, 2015 8:26:01 GMT -5
Test fit the new fender Cut the nose piece off of my old fender Cut a patch panel from the old fender to fill in the cornering lamp hole...
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Post by 58hemifury on Feb 4, 2015 10:08:21 GMT -5
Looking good!
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Post by spanks79 on Feb 4, 2015 11:55:07 GMT -5
Nice work! It's amazing the BS we have to go thru for these cars. My fenders were one place I got lucky on my car. The floors were shot but the dog house was solid. It's funny North Carolina rust is different than Michigan rust. Country Bunker stopped by last weekend to grab shackles off of my NC car. His Michigan shackles were wasted, the NC shackles didn't look much better on the surface but when we started disassembling them they came apart like a dream, not even stuck in the spring eye rubber. Strange.
As for the SEM camel....toe. Quarts are avaliable, if your guy can't get it try somewhere else. We opted to just use rattle cans because it's easier when only doing small batches of parts. In my opinion either way painting the headliner in the car will be a pain simply because you are upside down. A spray gun may work a bit better because you can adjust pressure and spray pattern. However I don't blame you for leaving that headliner alone! I wish I had a good 74 headliner.
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Post by cynot on Feb 5, 2015 8:37:42 GMT -5
I was making slow but steady progress on the Monaco, working on her 1 or 2 nights a week. Jon would come by on Friday nights to do body work while I helped. The pace was slower than I originally expected but for what I was paying Jon I couldn't complain. Then in the spring of 2014 Jon dropped the bomb...he was moving! Not just across town, oh no...he was moving to frickin South Carolina! I had 6 months before he, and my free paint job, were gone! I needed to get busy, there was a lot of work yet to be done. Most of the car was in it's first coat of primer and most of the metal patch work was done. I found a new motivation for working on the car. I was in the garage 2-3 nights a week on my own, trying to pick away at the to-do list. I originally planned on leaving the 400 alone for now just to get her on the road. I have a 440 in storage out of a 1966 imperial that I picked up for my Plymouth. Eventually I wanted to swap that in. Then I got a new Mopar Performance cam and lifters from my parts manager at work(freebie) and thought I might just do a cam swap in the 400 just to liven it up...so I started to tear into the engine. I figured I could install the cam with the engine left in the car fairly easily, and clean and paint parts as I went. The more I worked on the 400, the more I thought about the 440. So I finally decided to pull the 400 for a 440 swap... What a pain in the ass removing one of these hoods by yourself!!!
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Post by cynot on Feb 5, 2015 8:44:57 GMT -5
Well now with the engine out of the way, working on the firewall was a lot easier! Tedious work... It turned out nice, I am happy with the results
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Post by spanks79 on Feb 5, 2015 9:55:36 GMT -5
Looks awesome!
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Post by cynot on Feb 6, 2015 8:05:12 GMT -5
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Post by cynot on Feb 6, 2015 8:13:13 GMT -5
I ordered a spotlight mount kit from Unity and installed the spotlight. While digging through a bunch of parts for the car, I had found a spotlight mount that Huey had thrown in...DOH!
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Post by cynot on Feb 6, 2015 8:19:42 GMT -5
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Post by cynot on Feb 6, 2015 18:09:27 GMT -5
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Post by 58hemifury on Feb 6, 2015 21:44:59 GMT -5
Spinnaker White...Thanks Adam Isn't it a great looking color on the car? If you compared (other than condition obviously) my old car and the HOB car, which has a generic white on it, the spinnaker white and black car just looks so much better, I'm glad you like it.
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