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[1946Austin]

Swap meet was a huge success for me today! I set up Sat. and immediately sold a lot. Then came back this morning 1 1/2 hours early and began to sell again!...

[1946Austin]

It is a good idea, and by chance one a friend mentioned today while we were setting up at the swap meet. He worked with Gene Winfield back in the 60's-70's,...

[1946Austin]

That's my next step before removing any more fiberglass, a heat gun. Since I spent 30+ years as a licensed electrician, I do own a heat shrink gun I use...

[1946Austin]

Spent a couple hours on the fiberglass before the dust and just putting the front clip on and off finally got to me. But it is beginning to move a bit!...

[1946Austin]

You must have read my mind since I was wondering what to use to glue mounts to the frontend today. I went over to the steel yard and bought 20 ft' of...

[1946Austin]

Both good ideas. I wont get too much in a hurry to do anything as that generally leads to me having to redo whatever quick solution I came up with....

[1946Austin]

I'm contemplating another option. I'm thinking the least amount of work and finances spent would be to simply chop the hood away from the fenders, and...

[1946Austin]

Here's some pictures that will make things easier to see how bad this is.

The body line mismatch.



Passenger side...

[1946Austin]

I wrestled the one piece fiberglass frontend into the shop today by climbing under it and just standing up with my back bent over to walk it inside. Then...

[1946Austin]

Got it from years of installing them when I was a licensed electrician. In every instance the LED lights I used to replace existing incandescent, fluorescent,...

[1946Austin]

Finished sanding the grille today! Gave it a couple coats of 2x primer and then after that dried I shot the VHT graphite wheel paint on it. Didn't come...

[1946Austin]

If I wasn't such a tightwad I'd just spend $1200-$1600 on a nice grille. But that's as much as the whole car cost, so a painted grille it is. I bought...

[1946Austin]

I think I'll wear my fingers to a nub sanding these grille bars! Even as easy as the skim coat filler sands, it's still time consuming! I spent 4 hours...

[1946Austin]

It's cold here! So in order to not go stir crazy I brought my two grille halves into the basement work shop and did some work on them. I have them sanded...

[1946Austin]

So I guess they wont allow any newer cars to be imported to Hawaii?...

[1946Austin]

Yeah, that was my thought too. LED lights can degrade in lumen levels if the circuitry gets too warm. So it's likely to keep them cool and keep headlights...

[1946Austin]

Is this hilarious or what?



The new LED conversion lamps arrived for my headlights and they have little finned aluminum heat...

[1946Austin]

Realized yesterday that I'd never put my VIN tag back on the passenger side cowl. The coupe came with a brand new repro tag, so I got my stamp set out...

[1946Austin]

There was no shortage of cars with frontend damage to use as donors. But they also sell perfectly good headlight housings also at a higher price of $14...

[1946Austin]

That's why I ordered LED lamps. Since I painted the reflectors I don't want the halogens to burn the new paint off. The lamps were free with the reflectors,...