BIG REDS 67 Fastback build thread.

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BIG RED

2010 Most Improved
#181
#181
Before I could do the final bodywork on the fenders I had to scrape off the original 40 year old ford undercoating that was flaking off. Little help from the heat gun and a putty knife made easy work of this. I wirewheeled all of the surface rust off and sprayed it with truck bed coating. I didnt want to use undercoating because it stays sticky. I pretty happy with the result.

only before picture I got


and afters








close up

 
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BIG RED

2010 Most Improved
#186
#186
well since my hood and lower valence didn't come today I decided to work on the headlight openings in the upper nose.

started by making a template the size of the light, in this case a Tupperware container happened to be a perfect match.



then traced out the template on the upper nose



and cut it out with my dremel





held up the light and smoothed everything out all nice





while sanding I found a couple bubbles in the fiberglass, so that will have to be fixed



held up the light and check everything out



here is a close up of one of the movie cars



Didn't quite look right to me,notice the size of the lip around the headlight compared to mine. so I made a call to Cinema Vehicle Services(makers of the original 11 movie cars) and asked him to measure the fog lights on one of thecars used in the movie.

the 4062 light which is what I currently have measure 6 1/4 inches


The guy at CVS told me the headlights on the movie car were actually bigger than the fogs. Sure enough the fogs on the car measured 6 1/4 meaning that they were the 4062 light NOT the headlight as I was originally told, after some more calls I found that the original cars used light number 5862 which measure 6 11/16th



If you look close at this picture you can see the headlights are slightly bigger than the fogs. So I called PIAA and ordered the correct light.

 
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BIG RED

2010 Most Improved
#189
#189
I got my hood and lower valence today. first I wanna show one of the things that bug me on pretty much any clone ive seen. notice the difference between the movie hood and the repo hood that most people use that looks like ass. pay close attention to the leading edge of the hood notice on the movie car it has a slight arch to it,compared to the repo hood that is flat.

repo on top movie car on the bottom



now notice the hood bulges once again the repo one is very flat and block like, it doesnt really flow with the lines of the car at all. compare it to the movie hood.

movie car



repo



some shots of my car from today.









notice the correct arch on the front edge of the hood



also the correct hood dome





 
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BIG RED

2010 Most Improved
#194
#194
NYstang said:
what are you planning on using to drop it down? Im assuming with the quality of everything, it wont just be cut springs!
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the rear is leaf springs so they will be lower with lowering blocks, the front for this summer will be dropped with lowering springs, but over the winter when i can afford it I will be installing coilovers.
 
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