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The fun has begun. Assembling parts that are new or newly refinished is an absolute joy. I just love this part of a restoration. You can work all day and hardly get your hands dirty. Today was spent cleaning and painting fasteners and assembling the intake and exhaust manifolds. All the cleaning, repairing and repainting is beginning to payoff.
The photo to the left shows the manifolds in place. The carburetors, oil filter system, generator, starter and distributor will not be installed until the engine is mounted in the car.
Paxton completed the welding on the trunk lid this evening. The bottom edge of the lid was a rusty mess or as we often referred to its porosity, "Swiss cheese". After the initial sandblasting was done, you could actually see through the bottom edge; hence, the name. This repair has been rather time consuming, but the end result is certainly worth the time.
Did I tell you I was having fun?
Tom McCurry
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