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Your car looks fantastic, Ralph.  I have no doubt that you will have it figured out in no time!  Keep on pluggin'!

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Ralph,

Here's today's pics.As I said,condenser and dryer are in along with some of the brackets.Pic of painted right tailpipe and hanger brackets and top half of the tilt column painted and drying.Next is to take out the fixed column,I need the wiring and ignition from it for the new column.Should have a little time thurs and friday to do that and try and finish it up saturday.

Looks Great!  i hope mine turns out as good!

Ralph That is one fine car that you are building  Best Regards  Conard

Here's pics of the long awaited tailpipe.I got the fixed column out today and will be working on the tilt column on saturday.

I got the tilt column finished today and installed back in the car.I have a new lock cylinder coming for it because my fixed column one is different.Turns out there's two different ones depending on build date.Every auto parts store I deal with had the one in stock I didn't need,figures.The one auto parts store I deal with a lot called standard and they found one in virgina.So I should have it in a few days.I'll button up the instrument cluster tuesday and mount the digital tach and then I can get to the drivers fender later in the week or by saturday.

I believe it's called ICI.My painter highly recommended it because it lays very well and isn't affected by extreme temperatures.I got it thru the local parts plus auto parts store.The clear is from House of Color.My painter does a lot of restoration work and custom street rods,so he's been through all the name brand paints,dupont,ppg and such,so he knows from experience what works well.How you making out with your replica?

Well this week is turning out to be slow at work,so more time for my car!woohoo!I was fighting with putting the speedo cable back on the cluster and it was just fighting me all the way.It would never click in all the way.So after about 20 minutes fighting it,I loosened it from the tranny and fed the slack into the interior so I could see what the hell was going on.The center cable engages in the speedo,but the outer sleeve wouldn't go any further.After wiggling it back and forth I came to the conclusion that the center cable part is to long and is bottoming inside the speedo!Thanks Auto Krafters,another quality repro part.I wound up putiing a hose clamp over it to hold it on the speedo housing,there's nothing else I can do about it.So with that figured out,I hooked up the digital tach.As you'll see in the photo's I put it next to the guages,it was just to big looking on the column and I didn't want to drill any holes for it.It actually worked out well where it is because I used the bolt for the center dash support rod all our dash's have,just had to use a longer bolt.Pics of the tilt column,tach and the yellow check engine light in the dash,looks a little red in pic though.It's the low fuel economy light,see everything has a use!I'll be bringing up the left fender and header panel for wed to keep jamming on the nose.