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                                    Page 1.  The Exterior

                                    Page 2.  Performance

                                    Page 3.  Projects

                                    Page 4.  The Interior

This car is a work in progress. My grandpa bought it when I was little and my cousins and I spent much of our childhood playing in it and pretending to drive it. My senior year of high school I was able to talk my grandpa into selling it and years later my dad and I are still working on it. Most of the work on the car is done, I need to get the windshield in, work a couple bugs out of the wiring system and do the interior. The car runs and the 360 magnum feels strong and sounds great. I cant wait to work all the bugs our of it next summer and maybe get a pass down the quartermile to see what it runs.  When I got the car, it seemed like all I would have to do is paint it, split the wishbones on the suspension and drop a rebuilt engine and transmission in it.  The more I looked at it and though about it the more I decided I wanted to change, like the whole chassis, get rid of the door hinges for hidden ones, remove all the trim.  Admittedly things got a little out of hand, but I dont think there are any things on the car I would do any differently.

This is a close up of the frenched caddy tail lights. This is one of my favorite custom touches that we have added to the car. Most of the body work would have been pretty intimidating a few years ago, but if you start with small jobs and work your way up its amazing the stuff that you can do in your garage with hand tools and a welder. When we widened the front fenders we cut the fenders along the flattest part we could find, added a two inchin strip of steel and welded it all back together. That has to be one of the scariest things i have seen in my life, looking at my fenders after we cut them, and thinking to myself that fenders for cars well over 60 don't come around to often, and when they do they cost some money.

This is of the car in gray primer before we painted it. It took a about 2 years to do all the custom sheet metal work and get it smooth enough to paint. As you can imagine, a car over 60 years old had a lot of ripples and dents that needed to be worked out.