Many of our cars have worn out emblems that were once painted…Ok..I’m a lucky average guy…the Mustang’s emblems are all chrome and my Corvettes are mostly plastic.
But what about some those that need painting. Look for a flow pencil.
Flow Pencil for paint your emblems.
These are pretty reasonable and make painting small areas a bit easier.
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Don’t forget to get your entry in for the Project car of the Week/Month.
$100.00 Gift card to an online Auto Parts site, like Summit Racing.
Ok now I’m excited. The dash pad replacement arrived and it looks great.
Here are some pics:
Dashboard Pic1 1970 Mustang no A/C
Dashboard Pic2 Perfect placement of the defrost vents
Backside of the new dash Pic 3 1970 Mustang
Speaker Mount Pic4 1970 Mustang
I ordered this part from Dallas Mustang, but I thinking I should have ordered directly from DashesDirect.com I’ll check the web site and see if it was cheaper there. When you have an average guy’s budget every penny counts. PLEASE HOLD…..(MUSIC…MUSIC…MUSIC)..thanks for holding…ok DashesDirect.com doesn’t sell directly (get it????….do ya????) so you have to order through a 3rd party. So this worked out ok. Got 10% off on sale at Dallas Mustang and free shipping.
This is really nicely done. The key is getting parts that are created with the original tooling. That means the makee owns or has access to the original (recreated) molds (in this case) that Ford used.
The key to a good fitting part!!!
I can’t wait to get started….errk….but I have to wait until next week. I have things already scheduled for this weekend. You don’t want to rush projects and I lean toward wanting to start things right way. This will take some time to complete, especially with photographing (still and video) and all the cleaning, bulb replacement and any electrical work it might need.
If I can squeeze some time off the first of next week. I’ll start it. Stay tuned and you’ll see every bit of the good stuff and what ever I screw up…oh..don’t worry..there is always something.
My biggest fear is getting the old one off and find ‘rust’…yeah…that can happen here in AZ.
Thanks for reading. Don’t for get I’m looking for your project pics for the Project Car of the Week/Month. $100.00 gift card at stake.
Tim
Dashboard is in for the Mustang. I’ll take some pics tomorrow and post them…might get it started this Sunday.
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Tim
Billy Jones is serving our country in the US Army and is currently deployed overseas.
Billy had his new ride only 3 months before he was deployed. NICE Corvette Billy and thank you for your service.
Godspeed and a safe return.
Billy Jones Thank You!!!!!
His ride (my favorite color).
Aint she a beauty!!?!?!?!!?!?
I’ve been think about doing this but the rules seem a bit tough to come up with. But I’ll give this a try.
I’m looking for some project car posts from the readers. Your projects. Anything from a huge wreck of car project to something smaller (bigger then an oil change). It has to be your car and you are doing “some” of the work on it. That the only hard and fast rule.
I’ll need a couple photos and some brief details. You can post them up here or find me on Facebook and post the them up or email them to me (timsweet@cox.net). I’ll post them here and then on my website (www.tucsoncarevents.com) for everyone to look at.
If I get enough entries I’m pick a car of the week the week and then out of the we’ll vote on the car of the month (if I don’t get votes posted up I’ll have one of my regular readers pick it. The winner the car of the month gets a $100.00 online gift card as an auto parts dealer (Summit Racing or even on tailored to your car). Simple as that.
So let’s get started. Remember anything from a total wreck to just a transmission swap, body work, paint, interior upgrade, hood swap. That all works. Sorry Pdawg giving Burt a bath and vac isn’t going to cut it (but he could use one!!!…just kidding). It doesn’t have to be done and I don’t need a before and after, just what you are working on.
I’ll this run until I get at least for to choose from, then we’ll vote.
Note: If you noticed my site is not commercial, there are no ads, no click through links, no pop ups. It’s just me type to hear myself type and a few of you reading it. I like it that way.
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Tim
Happy St. Paddy’s day!!!!
3/15/1960 Mercury Comet is brought to dealership windows.
3/17/1949 Porsche appears as the Geneva Auto Show and Gottlibe Daimler born in Germany in 1834.
3/18 a couple of notable birthdays. Andy Grenatelli was born in Dallas (1923) and a little bit before that Ruddy Diesel was born in France in 1858. Ok..Rudolf ….only close friends were allowed to call him Ruddy. Guess what Ruddy is famous for?
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Tim
Follow the steps and you’ll be able to remove those rusted exhaust bolts and it makes using an easy out on broke bolts…um…well… easier!!!!
1. Heat the bolt or stud with a torch errrkkk….”Yo…us averaged guys don’t have a torch set!!!!” Yeah, I know…I use a regular propane torch from ACE Hardware. ….errkkk Double nut the studs.
2. Once it hot…doesn’t have to be glowing red, touch a candle to it, until there is wax penetrated between the threads.
3. Remove the bold or apply the easy out and you are home free.
If you have a tip, post it here in a comment.
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Tim
Dallas Mustang has just shipped my new dash-board for the Mustang. Be here next week, should start the replacement shortly there after.
Tim
Ok, I’ve been wanting to do this for a while. I have a couple of muscle cars and cars that aren’t but get “dressed up” like muscle car peeves.
So here are three right off the bat.
1. Don’t put Yanko strips on your 2003 Dodge Neon. It doesn’t look right, and you aren’t fooling anyone.
2. I have nothing against body kits added to a car. I, personally, wouldn’t do it to the two I have, but I’ve seen some pretty nice jobs done on Corvettes, especially. I’ve even seen a lot of imports that look good with body kits. But here’s my peeve, don’t put them on the car if you aren’t going to paint them the right way. Save up the cash and get it all done at once. And one more note on body kits, why would you want to take your Honda Accord and make it look like a 1946 pickup truck? (OK, I’ve never seen one, but you know what I mean).
3. I recently saw a 1970-something Camaro, mounted on the frame of a raised Chevy pickup…almost monster truck size. Why people…WHY???!!!
Okay, there are a couple of mine muscle car want-ta-be peeves.
Post up some of yours. Come on, I know you’ve got them!!!!!
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Tim
