StrayCat
Well-Known Member
Ok guys. I am sorry if I am posting this wrong,( or in the wrong place) but I have been trying to get my facts together on this car, and to fit in everything i will be doing to it would require me to post in different sections in here untill I'm crosseyed.....
Ok. As you know by now I have a 73 Satellite Sebring, 318, auto, factory a/c car, ect ect...
As far as paint, I'm having it painted all white,(factory color) and later having the vinyl top installed, because the top of the car was painted under the vinyl anyways, it's just a matter of taking that extra step to put the vinyl on.
Having the crappy cloth white headliner ripped out and replaced with a white vinyl one.
Interior (other than headliner) will be done COMPLETELY original, vinyl is good all the way around, going to have the red plaid inserts redone tho.
New dash top. Rest of it is near perfect.
Tops of the door panels are fine, bottoms are all chalky, dunno what im going to do there....any ideas?
I WAS going to put a set of Cragar SS on it, but eh, that factory mopar rallys look good enough, anyways, who doesnt love the shine of a beauty ring
. But I will be replacing the cheap tires that are on it with the goodyear polyglass tires that i believe are factory, getting those from Coker.
New seals all around.
New dual exaust, from front to rear.
Only thing I am not doing immediately is the underside. After this carshow season, im going to raise it, mask off the good new paint, and blast the bottom section, the rust on the car is minute at most, which is the main reason why i am fixing to slam so much money into it.
Now. Should i really bother reinstalling the A/C components after i switch the low milliage engine into it, and if the compressor is messed up, are they fairly simple to rebuild?
I DO NOT at all like the stance of the car right now. It's kinda low in the rear and high in the front, so the 14 in wheels on the front look so small with all that space above them, are the torsion bars adjustible for ride height, or just for softness/ ridgidity? I see two huge bolts in there that look like they could be used to adjust ride height. only want to drop it an inch or so to lvl it out.
I dunno. Heh. I don't know why I like this car so much. I really dont. But I do. From the moment I saw it I knew. I bought my 59 cadillac for 15,000.00, out of utah, spent another 15 grand in restorations and repairs.......and I like this car more. The body lines make me tingle. The overall design is just awesome. I just sold my 300zx twin turbo, a sportscar I wanted since the day I saw one as a kid, to fund the majority of this project. It's all going to happen fast. One month it shows up here on a trailer. By the end of the next month it looks and runs like it just came off the line. That is my goal. God help me.
Ok. As you know by now I have a 73 Satellite Sebring, 318, auto, factory a/c car, ect ect...
As far as paint, I'm having it painted all white,(factory color) and later having the vinyl top installed, because the top of the car was painted under the vinyl anyways, it's just a matter of taking that extra step to put the vinyl on.
Having the crappy cloth white headliner ripped out and replaced with a white vinyl one.
Interior (other than headliner) will be done COMPLETELY original, vinyl is good all the way around, going to have the red plaid inserts redone tho.
New dash top. Rest of it is near perfect.
Tops of the door panels are fine, bottoms are all chalky, dunno what im going to do there....any ideas?
I WAS going to put a set of Cragar SS on it, but eh, that factory mopar rallys look good enough, anyways, who doesnt love the shine of a beauty ring
. But I will be replacing the cheap tires that are on it with the goodyear polyglass tires that i believe are factory, getting those from Coker.New seals all around.
New dual exaust, from front to rear.
Only thing I am not doing immediately is the underside. After this carshow season, im going to raise it, mask off the good new paint, and blast the bottom section, the rust on the car is minute at most, which is the main reason why i am fixing to slam so much money into it.
Now. Should i really bother reinstalling the A/C components after i switch the low milliage engine into it, and if the compressor is messed up, are they fairly simple to rebuild?
I DO NOT at all like the stance of the car right now. It's kinda low in the rear and high in the front, so the 14 in wheels on the front look so small with all that space above them, are the torsion bars adjustible for ride height, or just for softness/ ridgidity? I see two huge bolts in there that look like they could be used to adjust ride height. only want to drop it an inch or so to lvl it out.
I dunno. Heh. I don't know why I like this car so much. I really dont. But I do. From the moment I saw it I knew. I bought my 59 cadillac for 15,000.00, out of utah, spent another 15 grand in restorations and repairs.......and I like this car more. The body lines make me tingle. The overall design is just awesome. I just sold my 300zx twin turbo, a sportscar I wanted since the day I saw one as a kid, to fund the majority of this project. It's all going to happen fast. One month it shows up here on a trailer. By the end of the next month it looks and runs like it just came off the line. That is my goal. God help me.
