john's 74 s&h clone build thread

wonder how much it would cost for shipping?

started coating the inside of the doors with bed liner to seal and water proof them  




Edited by californiajohnny - 23-August-2014 at 9:04PM

Johny, I just realized I have not been following your thread.

John, I am thinking that you are doing this for the same reason I do.

Hint: Does it involve a drill?

oh ok, you guys surprise spoilers!!! (i'll bet ya'll were just awful the night before xmas!)
drill??? you lost me there joe???
randy, no but the thought did cross my mind!
 the doors were aligned good before it took them off, so i drilled a small hole first then drilled that out for a small roll pin, so they should be damn close on reassembly (the bottom on the rear pass. door sits in a little which it did before, i may do a little tweeking to the top of the quarter jam area see if that helps, it may be the door???  but the plan for this is to align the doors and fenders, then  spray black base for the stripe, then use my oldschool overhead projector to project an outline of the stripe onto the car play around with that until i get it just right to suit me, then lay down some fineline tape for the black pinstripe, mask off of that spray the white, then the stripe is laid out ! remove the doors and fenders, mask the stripe and spray the red, unmask and wrap the whole thing in several coats of clear! cut and buff, set the body back on the frame (ever so carefully!) major hurdle completed!!! tons of parts can go back on!!!! then i'll have space in the booth to do the same on the doors (stripe is already aligned) then doors buffed and can go on, then the same with the fenders. make sense now (no reverse masking of door jams etc. or dry spray in the hard to reach jams and hinges,etc.) it may be a little more work now, but it will go smoother later and i don't have to mask paint wetsand and buff the whole car all at once (there's a narrow window to buff before it cures completely) is this starting to make more sense now?

John, that was what I meant about the drill. I drill that same hole when aligning the panels a final time prior to painting. Eliminates alignment scars on the bolt holes, panels, etc.

Yeah I got the pics, I just realized I had not followed your progress close enough.

no work on the torino sunday had to go clear down to central oregon to repo a car (car was dead, popped the hood , found the problem, hopped inside, fired it up, gone in less than 30 seconds! )
then later that night when i was home driving to the store in my celica the oil light came on WTF???(scared to death the pump quit and my new "hybrid engine" is wasted! so tonight i checked it out oil sending unit took a dump! looked around on my spare blocks, found one!   problem solved!!!

so then i did finally get to work on the torino a little bit tonight!!!

applied some bed liner to the inside of the drivers door: 




Edited by californiajohnny - 25-August-2014 at 5:34PM

tonight i got the drivers door hung, and adjusted: 
and a second coat of bed liner on the fender areas:

thanks carl!  i'm going to do the same on the lower insides of the fenders also!

some good news so far... went out and tried one of the new quarter window seals fits great!

got home kinda late tonight, but i did manage to sand and seal the passenger fender: 

lookin good john!........soon youll be finished with it, and you wont have a use for the forum anymore LOL

Thank you, oh wise body man.