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okay heres some interrior we gathered up for the project, still keeping the theme of using spare parts.
its a good idea, espiecially to keep the project relitive inexpensive. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/huh.gif[/img]

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okay here you see the innner fenders inplace and painted black to match the rest of the car

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this picture is an important one to remember, going through here, as this is one of the areas that drastically changed in looks on my second time through, notice the shape of the rear deck area.
oh yea and the shinney black paint [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif[/img]

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oops no more black paint... we decided to go and chase some rust and a few dings.. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/eek1.gif[/img]

pretty ah?

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oh yea, did i mention.. we where chasing rust... alot of alot of rust..


here is a picture of the floor and lack of floor

then there is both floors in,

and finally the rear section of the floor, where the battery goes.

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and here we are, at the painting stage, yes not primer, but actual paint. woohoo [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/Dancing.gif[/img]

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this is the engine where it rode up from texas, in another car, that we rebuilt and put in my car originally.

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okay heres when the engine got put into my car, and if you look at some of the previous pictures youll see how much it actually drops with the engine in it.

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hey im back on here again gonna try to catch ya up to current if i can.

this is what the car looked like when we got ready for our town parade and cruise night, it had alot of parts from my dads car on it to finish it up that day, and my moms cars rims on it to help pretty it up.

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alright here are some more

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you dont really know fun til you take it out for a testdrive, which me and my dad did on the way to the car parade.
nothing i think, is more satisfying than riding in something youve built with your own hands.
driveing with stock sized tires under a severly lowered car, its really fun!
especially when you can hear the tires scrape the fender over and over as you cruise down the express way.. in a straight line. all them bumps make for an interesting first ride

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alright heres my car with my new rims on it i have quite a few

the second picture here is kinda fitting.. 'the pile bleached bones' sitting next to the pile of parts where we had picked through to make it.

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its weird how these rims make the car look even lower than it did on the polished aluminum ones.

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this is the last picture with the rear deck filler peice in place looking good.

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this is my new hood striahg outta canada, i got it for 25 american dollars

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sorry about that i had a better nose shot.. but its too big of a file to load its only 217kb.. but whatever i dont feel like messing with it i just spent like and hour trying to get the pictures i had that i scanned seperated.. it sucked..
well anyway.. heres where the hacking and slashign began again.. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/Sawzallsmiley.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/funny.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

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okay the pervios picture was to show you that infact there was somthing there.. as now its gone.. haha

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geez this shot is reminicent of one of thes oringal ones where there is nothing at the rear of the car.

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you might have noticed in the previous shot, the 'big metal boxes' are gone, where we oringally construckted all the air box off of, just above the rear tires here. you notice it alot better in this picture as you can see right through.

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the rear deck next to the car, fenders on and you can see the light through the louvers.
then here we where spacing the walls out , and the last one will show a beter close up of what we where doing.

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heres my new hood cleaned a bit.

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the new inner walls of the trunk going in

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even more

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we had both roadsters in the garage and took some comparason shots.. im not gonna post all of them.. but ill pick a few good ones.

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here you can see peices layin in the back of my car, as we where getting ready to bridge the back edge across, and get the trunk working.