Week #5

Here's the scene...you start with a nice clear work bench and work area. As work progresses things accumulate on the bench top, floor, roof of the car(s), ect. You start to have to serpentine your way from the door to the bench, side-stepping the floor jack, rear end, the hood and probably knocking whatever you had balanced on the sawhorse onto the floor with your hip.

You need a clear spot on the workbench so with a lineman type blocking motion, forearms on the table, you bulldoze everything back about 14"....it's getting a little harder to do as this is the 6 th time you've done it!

So you have a clear spot and start your work. Now where's those snap ring pliers? Oh yea...you remember...you used those about 4 bulldozes ago....

Yep, cleanup time. About half-a-day spent finding a place for everything that wouldn't be messed with for a while.

Otherwise, I removed the brackets from the old trunk floor sections, ie tank hook bolt "receivers" and the spare holdown bracket. Of coarse these don't come with the new stuff and need to be retained. Also, I measured and marked all the body plug holes on the new trunk panels. This is where you see just how different the repop floors are from the originals. In fact the area of the trunk above the rear end that meets the interior floor is SO different I'm considering splicing the old section back in here. The jury is still out on that...would anyone ever know?

The rest of the garage time was spent rebuilding the carb on the '72. What I thought was a miss picked up at the Nat's turned out to be carb problems. A renew kit was just the ticket.

Got word this weekend that the rear window patch metal that I'm getting from a fellow MMLer is separated from the donor car and will be en route to me shortly. Will be looking forward to actually repairing something! My wife is getting funny looks on her face....she said "That sure is a lot of money to spend on a car just to cut it all up like that!"