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First Car Project...... Yes I Am A Girl :-P


blog-0757764001378439474.jpgblogentry-6385-0-61781800-1378440289_thumb.jpgblogentry-6385-0-02618800-1378440306_thumb.jpgblogentry-6385-0-85699600-1378440314_thumb.jpgblogentry-6385-0-73930700-1378440327_thumb.jpgFirst off, I wish I would have started this when we started on the car (how many folks have said that?!! hahaha). I am a young lady with some experience with cars. Never have I redone an older car. When my father-in-law said he wanted to give us a 1948 Plymouth Convertible that he redid in the 1980's we jumped on it. Luckily my husband is an extremely knowledgeable hobby mechanic and we have a garage full of professional tools. The car was not in perfect shape when we got it, but not rough either. Primer purple with fairly decent interior and a canary yellow engine bay. We started in February 2013 and knew the first task was to start disassembling and pull out the transmission (needed to be rebuilt). Oh, I forgot to mention it has a Mopar 360 with a 727 Torque Flight. After the engine and tranny were pulled the cleaning began. The 360 was so clean you could eat off it and received a few coats of Grabber Green to suit the car's new color scheme. Next we tried to decide about attempting a home-garage tranny rebuild. No decision was made so the trans was set on aside. I started body work on the firewall after the husband welded a few holes (neither of us have done any body work before). It turned out beautiful for an amateur job! So, I continued with the rear fenders. In between body work we had the front and back seats reupholstered and ripped out the dash to paint/rewire. Poor car had it's heart ripped out and interior stripped! Blah, blah, blah. We did a bunch of stuff and sent the tranny off to get rebuilt at very reputable local shop. 6 weeks later it came back. Now it's sitting the back of our truck waiting to be stabbed back in (hopefully this weekend **fingers crossed**). Sorry for the lack of details. I'm not much of a gabber or blogger. Please ask questions if you have any. I will do my best to answer them promptly. I am excited about this awesome car! :-)

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seabee1950

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I think it great that you are willing to get into this car, nothing wrong with that at all, there are gals that do this and I respect that.

 

I talk to you the other night when you came on the Chat, we like to kid each other on there but we try our best to be of help if that's what you need.

You both have the same love for these old cars, so build away young lady.

Dave72dt

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How about some closeups of the firewall and front suspension. Is it a frame swap or a clip? If the engine color is also the body color, they'll see you a long way off. I'd hold off on installing any upholstery until after paint is finished. Sanding dust and overspray gets everywhere.

It's really nice to see ladies as involved as you are. My wife is not, but she does let me use her half of the garage on occasion, and puts up with the dust, smell, and noise.

Keep posting progress and problems. It's encouragement for others as they visit. CHAT can usually offer immediate responses and too few take advantage of it. Feel free to join in with questions or responses anytime regardless of how or where the conversation meanders.

I'm looking forward to following your progress.

knuckleharley

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A free P-15 convertible?
 
You sure know how to start out right. I'm thinking I need to ask you for advise because all I get is junk,and I had to pay big bucks for that.

DCurrent

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I never even knew we had a blog, but the title "yes I'm a girl" got my attention. Good for you! I like to see girls get their hands dirty with their husbands. I will check your blog out once in a while. Good luck with your project.

Duskylady

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Thanks for all the positive input, fellas! I'm putting together more posts for the interior and exterior on work I've done thus far. Check back!

Duskylady

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The front end is a Volari and the engine color is just an accent. The main body is flat black.

Duskylady

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Update: We finally got her to fire off this weekend! The husband put a lot of work into putting the engine back together yesterday while I ran herd on the kids (of course I helped when I could). Today running fuel line, hooked up exhaust and some temporary wiring. Then she started! There's still a lot of work left. Plan is to finish the wiring, run transmission lines, put in the seat and temporarily mount the radiator so we can test drive the car. We want to make sure the engine and tranny are good before putting the front clip and hood back on for paint and body work. A few more weekend and she will done in time for the snow season, hahaha.

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