This just in....ALL DONE!!!

[cordodge]

car looks awesome, about the dyna mat i used 3 and a half bulk packs in the my challenger. it added some weight but it sounds like the car is made of lead when you tap anywhere, should make a huge difference for sure.  thx bruce

[brads70]

Is this car the twin to the one you just sold and had at Carlisle last year?

[anlauto]

Is this car the twin to the one you just sold and had at Carlisle last year?

A brothur from a nudda muther

[jhaag]

how many hours you got in restoring all the sub assemblies?

[anlauto]

how many hours you got in restoring all the sub assemblies?

Excellent question ...Over the past eight months I spent 176 hours working on the components and sub assemblies.
With the cars I restore, I average 320-350 hours of my labour. This one may be on the low side of that number when finished.

[Topcat]

Do you send out a mass of parts to be re cad or anodizing?
Or do you buy repro replacements?

[anlauto]

Do you send out a mass of parts to be re cad or anodizing?
Or do you buy repro replacements?

Depends on what the customer wants...I stock a lot of the correct fasteners for underhood, chassis etc...so most times the cars get new hardware or just painted (flat black) hardware if it's out-of-sight.

I don't get alot of "deep pocket" customers....I try to do restorations for the working man

[jimynick]

It's all your fault Alan; I'm just dying with envy here!! That work looks better than new. Nice! 

[anlauto]

Saturday 05/17/14  5 hours === 27 hours Total

I know, I know, I know......I never work weekends, but my glass guy wanted to come up today so we did the glass and headliner...Looks awesome...nothing nicer then new glass and that eye-popping white interior against that nice dark purple...

So WEEK ONE over....not exactly a 40 hour week, but you get the idea....

[anlauto]

DISCLAIMER: If you're doing this at home...You should ALWAYS, always, always plan to install the dash assembly before the windshield...

This is one of those pain in the arse things that I mentioned before caused by the fact that American Powertrain has not sent me the parts I ordered 16 weeks ago  . This car is getting a hydraulic clutch pedal installed and I have no idea what's involved with it's installation...I'd rather fight a little extra putting the dash in with the windshield in place then try and work under the dash installing parts I have no idea what goes where....

[HP_Cuda]

Knowing what I know now I would have installed the dash and dealt with the hyd clutch

[cordodge]

looks great alan, your headliner is perfect mine is pretty good but still has a couple wrinkles, did you use a heat gun or something or are you a master now with doing so many.  thx Bruce

[anlauto]

My buddy Scott does most of it...I just hand him tools Yes he uses a heat gun...

[cordodge]

oh ok alan, yeah i think it's an art for sure. mine is really close to being like yours just a couple spots need attention. i was a little nervous to use the heat gun, i was thinking if the weather ever turned hot i would put it out in the sun with everything closed up and see if that would tighten it up enough. also i think on here somewhere somebody used a steam machine to touch up some areas? anyway thanks Bruce

[74 challenge]

after 27 hours I would have figured out how to put on a headlight.

you're a regular magician. Love this thread already.