Sundays......

[eldubb440]

Forget green, you need to paint it silver (my favorite colour) It will really pop with the black vinyl roof and stripe.

I might do the AMX in silver; it has a maroon interior....... I like silver

by 1985 standards, my car was a little rougher than most........ but my vinyl top was perfect. It pained me to peel it up...... It's amazing how nice my "rough" GTX is now by current standards

working on a lot of B's; I've come to appreciate things like a solid roof, a dutchman that is 98% there, and a cowl panel without any bent "slots"

 

[68BabyBlue]

I might do the AMX in silver; it has a maroon interior....... I like silver

by 1985 standards, my car was a little rougher than most........ but my vinyl top was perfect. It pained me to peel it up...... It's amazing how nice my "rough" GTX is now by current standards

working on a lot of B's; I've come to appreciate things like a solid roof, a dutchman that is 98% there, and a cowl panel without any bent "slots"

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Interesting to see northern cars that weren't perfect back in the day actually having better structures than what seems to come available in desert areas in present day. Keeping them indoors after they were no longer daily driven seems to be a huge factor. All my cars have had near perfect dutchman panels and window channels, even though they had the standard rot at the bottom. Garage history was what they had in common.

 

[eldubb440]

Interesting to see northern cars that weren't perfect back in the day actually having better structures than what seems to come available in desert areas in present day. Keeping them indoors after they were no longer daily driven seems to be a huge factor. All my cars have had near perfect dutchman panels and window channels, even though they had the standard rot at the bottom. Garage history was what they had in common.

I built my shop late 1997, it's been here since then....... the prior 8 years seemed like an eternity at the time......

I had traded the car to my buddy in 1990, who stuffed it into his mother's garage; By 1993 I had it back.

I then took it to a horse farm I had a connection to......

it lived in a dry corner of a huge barn (with the other thoroughbreds ) until my shop was completed.

 

[eldubb440]

I cringe when I see cars outdoors covered with a tarp ....... it's probably the worst thing someone can do

it traps moisture and becomes almost a greenhouse

it's best to use a tarp as a canopy, or don't bother