Well Everyone:
It looks like the painting portion of refurbishing 57 AGIN is nearing the final stages. Santini may wind up giving me a 68Th birthday present and not even realize he's doing it. I think the car should be coming home (to Rick's garage) either this week or next. I'm sure ready to get to work on putting the car back together and getting it back on the road. I'm still not sure what's going to be done inside the area where the gold anodized trim went. Some pieces of it are out being nickle plated at this time, afterwhich they may be tinted or not depending on how they look with the pewter/blue combination. The interior trim pieces, window frames, front splash pan, etc. went out for media blasting last Friday and should be back today. Anyway, that's where things stand with my project today. Boy, am I getting antsy to get it back.
Bob
57 AGIN
Bob when are you going to put a shine on that thing........ :003:....looking real nice!
Bob,
Your car looks good. Glad to see you getting it out of Body Shop Jail. Without doubt it has a different appearance than the previous paint job. The previous paint job seemed old school to me. The new one seems retro-mod.
I've had my 63 out for a couple of months now and I've worked on it every day with no end in sight. The bad thing is I'm beginning to really like that car and I feel guilty liking it. Everything is going good, I just have the interior to do now and put a 2.75 rear gear in it so I can drive it down the highway without the engine screaming.
Have you got your interior figured out yet. I'd imagine you'd just recover the original or have you got something else in mind. Jim
The colors look great Bob, and the finish is flawless. Can't wait to see it back together....More pics, Bob....Great job!
Thanks Guys:
Ford Blue Blood
As soon as the car gets home, the beginning is to clean up the frame & suspension and get it painted with a good Rustoleum. Santini will provide the gun and recommendation for the paint to use. So, I'll finally be putting some shine without benefit of the rapidly dwindling wallet.
Jim
Yes, the car is no longer a period correct street rod, it's now a resto-mod. The interior will still have the fold down back seat for my surfboard, and the same bench seating arrangement. However, the seats will have more contour than before and there will be some arm rests installed. I'm still partial to tuck & roll but that will be a discussion between me and the upholsterer. We've already discussed the fabric, it will be a synthetic ultra-leather.
I've gone a much different route than you with traveling down the highway, as I still want to put the car onto the drag strip on occasion. A TKO 600 5-speed, with a .64 overdrive will keep the long distance traveling much nicer. It will also provide a bit steeper gear for the launch and handle the torque.
James
I'd love to take the car east in the near future to meet up with fellow 57 owners, do some show & shine and maybe a bit of quarter mileing. That depends on my retirement picture & the wife.
Bob
57 AGIN
Looks great Bob. I love putting the pieces back together. Definetly look'n good. Hope you get some decent #'s out of it too.
Ron:
Thanks, the putting back together will be much slower than the first time in 2003/04. We'll probably be trying to hide more of the engine compartment wiring to keep things less cluttered. Also, Pete has painted a couple of my MSD boxes, the blower carb enclosure, valve covers & plug wire cover to match the body's paint scheme. The car, when looked at under fluorscent lighting tubes, looks to be absolutely straight, which is a far cry from what it looked like before. Lots more esthetics stuff than performance goodies, as I go to lots more shows than drag races. Definitely looking forward to getting started on the rebuild.
Bob
57 AGIN
Sweet ride Bob!!! :burnout:
The 57 is due to travel tomorrow back to my garage about 10 months after the start of the project. Naturally, we're due to have scattered showers tomorrow in good 'ole "it never rains in Southern California." But, like I always tell my fellow car show buddies, "it's OK the darn things just don't shrink." Pretty soon a new thread will be started, showing the getting it back on the road.
Bob
57 AGIN
Nice,I like the colors you are using.Going to be sharp when you are done! :burnout:
YIPEE!!!
57 AGIN is home again. Now the fun begins again (Is that too many agains? lol).
Bob
57 AGIN
Bob,
I don't know about you but I've about used up my agains. I don't want to even think about restoring another car. Jim
the first 57 i painted back in 59, the bottom blue looks very close to what i used, and thats to long of a story to tell. as to Jim Nolan, if i could find a 32 3 window or 5 window cheap to work on, and i've got 10 years on ya, can't just sit around doing nothing.
Quote from: JimNolan on 2011-11-04 19:30
Bob,
I don't know about you but I've about used up my agains. I don't want to even think about restoring another car. Jim
LOL....Me too!
Good for you Jerry...think I'm about done too. :003: Had my Deuce many moons ago.
Bob,
I meant to ask you before. DO YOU SURF? Jim
Jim:
Not as much as I did when I was in my 20's, 30's, 40's, & 50's. I'm 68 and I surf once or twice a week, when the waves are between 2 to 4 ft and the water is at least in the 60 degree range. 55 to 59 degree water requires a heavier wet suit & booties and wearing those takes a lot out of me. So during the Southern California winters, once a week is plenty. I'm well beyond the days when I used to look for 6 ft plus waves to surf in and didn't care what the water temp is. Now I just like to go out shoot the breeze with some of the guys I've been surfing with for many years and wait for that "perfect wave." I surf a 10 ft "log" that weighs about 25 lbs and still have a great time doing it. I can hardly wait until I can load my board into my 57 AGIN and go down to the beach again. With all the care Santini took with the paint and body work on my car, I'll be much more careful in loading and unloading the board. But, I surfed using my first 57 Custom 300 as a make shift surf wagon and I'll continue to do it as long as I'm able. It is a great sport and you only have to do what you feel like doing. There are a couple of 80 year old surfers around out here and I hope to some day be one of them.
Bob
57 AGIN
That's NEAT!!!!!
Jim:
I had to wait to get back to work to find a somewhat recent (2005) picture of me enjoying a small wave at my local surfing spot, Seal Beach, CA about 6 miles from where I live. As you can see I was wearing a full wet suit and booties, this is a sure give away that the photo was taken sometime late fall/winter/early spring. The hat is to keep me surfing and going to car shows longer, as my bald head needs protection and using the greasy kid stuff (SPF 50) just makes the board slippery. :005:
Bob
57 AGIN
Bob,
That's awesome ( to borrow a phrase from Jeff Gordon ). The Beach Boys used to sing songs about you guys. The smog must not be THAT detrimental to your health out in California. I've got to ask, did you ever surf through one of those tubes with the water breaking over you. Jim
Jim:
Yes, in my younger years I managed to "get covered up" in a tube on occasion. Of course it wasn't in one of those huge standing up inside a 10 foot type wave, like they show on television. It was in about a 6 ft wave at a local beach, on one of those very rare "perfect days." Getting "tubed" is one of the ultimate challenges in surfing. With the new short boards ridden by today's younger surfers, there is a bit more opportunity to get tubed. These boards are "late take off" boards, meaning that when the wave is in the process of folding over and crashing down, the surfer is in the process of standing or crouching below the lip of the wave. On the long boards that I surf now and have always surfed, the take off is generally done well before that critical instant. The opportunity to "get tubed" generally will come some distance after the take off and unless the surfer is really lucky it will usually result in getting tubed for a short time and the wave then crashing down on top of the surfer and his board. This is when the surfboard leash is really a blessing, as when this is about to happen the surfer dives off of the board and is usually able to escape getting pounded in the washing machine turbulence with his surfboard banging into him repeatedly (or even just once, ouch). For me this and bowling are the sports I have take into my senior years, both of which are only as punishing as the participant makes them. I never could get the hang of golfing, my baseball swing just doesn't make for a consistently straight shot and most other sports require running (which after refereeing soccer during the 15 years my daughter played and playing slow and fast pitch softball in my 30''s & 40's messed up my knees a bit). Car shows are a very good spectator sport and drag racing occasionally is sublime.
Bob
57 AGIN
That's awesome Bob...LOL my sports consist of watching baseball and yanking on a slot machine handle.
Rich