Call me crazy - Ranchero's (again)

[BillP 98201]

Flarechero and flare driveway!

[Luva65wagon]

Yeah - and who put those Oregone plates on it!

OK, just funnin' ya. That one's not mine.

I have been doing that dreaded body work thing though. Steve, I'm with ya... I hate body work. But it's coming along. Almost have the entire right side, hood, and half-way down the drivers side, all smoothed out of it's little dents. I hope to be able to spray the satin black by the end of the weekend. Fingers crossed.

Also, I ordered tail light buckets for lenses with back-up lights. I looked and poked -- seemed the easiest route to go. Assuming they are in stock and ship sometime soon. The others are really nice, so I will sell those to offset the cost of the new ones.

[doghows]

Where did you order the buckets from?? I can't find them anywhere. But mine has a glitch. I grafted in those panels from the 61, so now I need to use the 61 buckets and tail lights. Do they have those???
I have a brand new set of 63 buckets, lenses and gaskets if any one needs them. I bought them for $175 and found they won't work for me anymore.
Roger when you get done with your body work feel free to come over, I am having a difficult time. I think I am over sanding. Seems to me I fix one and find two more!
Flarechero is looking very good though. Wish my honey do list would take a vacation...

[Luva65wagon]

I ordered them from Mac's, but I've looked elsewhere with them either not available or no longer available. What did you get before? The non-back up sets?

I didn't see the earlier style, but didn't really look for that style, so could have missed 'em if they had 'em.

With the satin black - and being a "driver", I ain't sweating the small stuff. I just want it done.

[redfalken]

... - and being a "driver", i ain't sweating the small stuff.

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[Luva65wagon]

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OK, I guess I should have qualified that statement by ending it with "anymore ." Burnout has come and gone and been replaced with something resembling two very bald tires.

[Jeff W]

I thought you jambed it the gun metal gray... At what point did you change to satin black? Did I miss something?

[Luva65wagon]

I did, but in post 340 I'd mentioned doing the all black thing for a while. Maybe a long while. I'd have to do a lot more body work for anything shiny. Just don't have it in me.

[doghows]

Yes I came across a set at a swap meet. I priced out the package new and it was around $200 buck plus shipping. I got it all for 125 I think. They are no back up but I was after the buckets more than the lens part.
Oh well still have lots of time so I will keep looking.
By the way I am off to pick up a 65 "chero" tonight. The price was right so I will let ya know what I end up with. (here we go again)

[Luva65wagon]

Well, as I suspected, I got an email from Mac's and the back-up buckets are not available - so back to the drawing board.

I picked up some small halogen bulbs with a wire attached to them and will, I guess, see if I can make an adapter plate to put those in the back-up lens hole. Just more fabrication I hoped I didn't need to do. Oh well.



So, then, Steve, I guess you sold the Bronco or traded it for the Ranchero?

[doghows]

No still fiddling with the Bronco. Met a guy at a swap meet and got talking and of course one thing led to another and a smoking deal was struck.
I will put up some pics as soon as I get it out of the trailer.

[Luva65wagon]

"one thing led to another"...

Almost as bad as "while I'm at it"...

[Luva65wagon]

I've been doing nothing but body work the past couple weeks and I'm now ready to start spraying some satin black over this thing. Will be doing multiple coats with a light sanding between coats. It'll be fine for a long time like this.

So tomorrow after I visit Dave to look at the back-up tail light buckets he has, I will be beginning the job of masking off all the bits and pieces and hopefully spray coat #1 tomorrow afternoon.

Also, having already driven it from the garage to the carport and back again, the 13.5" steering wheel I purchased from Jay was just too small. So I found this one on ebay and it's a lot closer to the original size.

[Jeff W]

This looks better every time I see it. Do you have the little trim pieces that go on each side of the dash pad (next to the doors) to cover the raw ends. They are just flat metal and would be easy to make. I'm going to be installing mine this weekend and can easily trace a pattern for you.

You may want to save that small wheel to use after you install the V-8 with power steering.

[Luva65wagon]

I do have those pieces Jeff. Thanks for the offer. I just haven't gone back to finish interior stuff.

I'll probably sell the 13.5 wheel

Thanks to Dave who met up with me early this morning with the tail light buckets I needed and to Gene for helping to mask off the car. It has the first coat of black sprayed on it now, but it's so cold in the garage it'll take a couple days to cure enough to sand in preparation for the second coat. And this satin black never looks good wet.

Sadly the image management doesn't work using this tablet. Bummer.