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LakesideRamblin
AMC Addicted Joined: Dec/21/2015 Location: So. California Status: Offline Points: 2676 |
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Wonderful work, Kevin. Really a work of art with much time and superb craftsmanship. Congrats on the home stretch.
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LakesideRamblin
69 Rambler 360 73 Javelin 360 "If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month." T. Roosevelt |
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kcsamc
AMC Addicted Joined: Sep/03/2011 Location: Denver, PA Status: Offline Points: 1973 |
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Support projects as well as some "big ticket" items had to come off the list this week. My great friend Bruce has been coming over every night now to help pull me this project across the line right now. He has been doing a lot of part prep, and I caught him cleaning the NOS radiator hoses this week with cleaner and a tooth brush - now that is dedication. Thanks Bruce, you have been a great friend through the years and I appreciate our friendship.
We spent a whole evening bolting up and fighting alignment of the rear NOS bumper and NOS backup assemblies, nice photo with all the grimey finger prints on the NOS chrome!: The project that nearly kicked my butt - aligning and setting the rear windows and regulator panels. I won't go into detail - but I would say, think twice before removing yours for restoration - these things are crazy hard to do. Two nights and several hours today to get them to about 85% satisfaction to me, but probably 50% better than factory. I did learn some secrets to getting these where they need to be. This was a big deal this morning when I finally conquered this one... And one last photo of the NOS speedo cable and NOS gear just before install. The boxes are emptying!! |
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Rogue343
AMC Addicted Joined: Feb/16/2011 Location: Norwalk, OH Status: Offline Points: 1004 |
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Kevin, I feel your pain about doing the quarter windows. Remember doing mine on the Rogue. You need three hands and those only enough room for two. Took me two days and a few choice words, a couple times had to stop and walk away from it just due to frustration but finally got them. Looks like you're making good progress down the home stretch. MCACN's three weeks away! |
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1967 Rambler Rogue 'X' code 343 4 speed
1966 Rambler American 440 4 door Factory 290 (now 360) 4 speed VIN 100003 |
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304-dude
AMC Addicted Joined: Sep/29/2008 Location: Central Illinoi Status: Offline Points: 9081 |
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Grimey finger prints are good, rust is bad!
Ha! Geezo! The rear quarter window is that bad to install? I wonder if the factory used a jig or something to align them with. Seems like if workers had to manually install them, they may have been child laborers or imported from China. |
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71 Javelin SST body
390 69 crank, 70 block & heads NASCAR SB2 rods & pistons 78 Jeep TH400 w/ 2.76 Low 50/50 Ford-AMC Suspension 79 F150 rear & 8.8 axles Ford Racing 3.25 gears & 9" /w Detroit locker |
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kcsamc
AMC Addicted Joined: Sep/03/2011 Location: Denver, PA Status: Offline Points: 1973 |
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Sounds like I was right on PAR! same experience, and yes the clock ticks down.... Painted the air cleaner and rear brake drums last night with semi gloss black. Today I got all the clutch linkage hooked up tonight after some new challenges. Need to nail the exhaust this week and finish hooking up rear end / shock stuff. |
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kirkwood
Moderator Group Charter Member Joined: Jun/28/2007 Location: Fort Wayne, IN Status: Online Points: 6559 |
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It looks great Kevin... but whose toothbrush did Bruce use???
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kcsamc
AMC Addicted Joined: Sep/03/2011 Location: Denver, PA Status: Offline Points: 1973 |
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If you live within the Chicagoland area come out this morning and join the awesome AMC display at MCACN 2018 show and the next chapter in this project's journey!
69 SC JOURNEY will be unveiled at 10:45am CST! |
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amxdreamer
AMC Addicted Joined: Jul/30/2008 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 8485 |
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Car looked great on the video Kevin! Look forward to seeing it in 2019.
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Tony
Vancouver, BC 1970 AMX 1972 Ambassador AMO#10333 |
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gtoman_us
Moderator Group Joined: Jul/10/2007 Location: E. Nebraska Status: Offline Points: 3861 |
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Just watched the unveiling Kevin..AMC proud!
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Used to collect trophies, now I collect gas receipts and put on miles 1964 Rambler Ambassador Cross Country Wagon 1965 GTO 1931 Model A original survivor "Flat Roofs are Cool" |
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B Pitt
AMC Apprentice Joined: Jul/12/2007 Status: Offline Points: 108 |
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Car looked great at the show! You did a fantastic job. You should be very proud of all the work you
and your family put into that car.
You are the only guy I know that can get rained on in a indoor show! Hope your family made it home safe. |
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