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How come you're going with a Satty hood? Doing a conversion to an Air Grabber?

There's always the "it's your car, do what you want with it" argument, but these cars look better with tires than with garden hoses. :yes: Great solid body on this one!

That resto project is looking suh-weeet! Very nice. The body looks like it's made of glass in the second pic.

That hood is awesome. I'm soooooo tempted to start checking CL/eBay/FBBO for a 73/74 "ruster special" hood I can rehab (and afford)....

That is very, very cool. Best kind of family tradition! :icon_thumleft:

Some major fabrication needed for a shaker, I'd think. For the '73 RR, you'd need to flatten the two fender humps at the corners. I've seen those done on 71/72 birds and they look great.

$7k for the car and $13k+ for restorations later, I'm still waiting for paint. I want to give the job to one of the two shops in town that work exclusively with old cars and will love 'em up as part of the work, but the best price I've gotten so far is "four to six thousand, depending on what we...

Looks like those floors might only have surface rust, more severe on the PS than the DS. I'd tap 'em all over with a hammer from inside and underside and if they don't collapse like paper, you're set - just sand and treat with POR or Rust Bullet and smile about the money you saved on not buying...

^ x5! When you lasered the line, did you take into account the amount of lift that the body's got at the back end?

Sweeeet! :headbang: Be sure to show us more pix along the way to the total re-assemble.

^ What Ron said. More! :blob1:

Fantastic paint job - what's the color's official name?

My quarter-pan (DS front) took about 3 hours for the shop guys to weld in and rustproof... grinding old steel back to weldable parameters was part of it too. So you might not be looking at a wallet-killer after all, between affordable pans and that $30/hr rate!

Man, you could turn that car over and eat a fine meal from that super-clean undercarriage. Wow. Now I gotta go rent a pressure washer and start making mine look halfway as good... :icon_neutral:

Nope, the patch is paid for by your taxes, so WTH. :happy7: Just watch out for anyone using Liquid Nails as the "weld" because it's water-based and introduces even more rust to rust. :icon_confused:

Good luck! My '72 DS floor was rusted pretty much just like yours and had been "patched" with a Speed Limit sign, with a Residents Parking Only sign and a No Parking sign over that, all held together with Liquid Nails. This is called "hillbilly sheet metal welding." :eek: A real floor pan...

Sounds great! Post pics so we can see the bird?

Drooling... beautiful car.

I know, but I already had a painted-in set on the fenders so decided to stay with them.

I paid $400 for a '71 GTX hood that was in a Georgia barn, then paid $600 more to have it media blasted, the hail dents filled and ten coats of primer stripped, two holes patched where the centered turn signals had been instead of on the fenders, and finally painted to match the car. "Silk purse...