Hi everyone,
Just though I would start a restoration thread on my Dad’s 1964 110 that we have been working on for the last couple weeks. Here are a couple before photos. The other 1964 on the right in the second photo is my nice original paint 110, I am leaving it original. I will keep everyone updated on the progress.
I then spent a couple days blasting all the parts in our blasting cabinet. Then Dad started doing the body work. He painted the first batch of parts last Sunday.
Here are some of the painted parts. We are using u-tech automotive paint on it. We will wet sand the hood and fenders in a few days and then clear coat them. We are currently working on re-sealing and rebuilding the transmission. Once that is completed we will tear down the engine and send out the block to be bored .010.
This one had the factory light kit on it when we bought it, but the previous owner bumped against the side of the hood one time and completely ripped the right headlight off. Dad prefers them without lights so he ended up selling the light kit years ago.
We got the transmission and generator painted the other day and Dad clear coated the hood, dash and fenders. Now we just need to disassemble the engine for a rebuild, and then paint it once we get the block back from the machine shop.
Your restoration is looking really great. I know I don't dare let my wife see your photos, she'll want to hire you guys to speed up my long term project, lol. That would take too much fun out of it for me though. Great work!
Keeping your pictures to yourself is not necessary. If you're happy with what you did and had a good time doing it own it and be proud of it. Doesn't really matter what others think.
We dropped the block off at the machine shop last Monday, unfortunately they are pretty busy and said it could be 6 weeks until they get to it. Will update once we get it back.
Well after 2 months of waiting to hear from the Amishman at the machine shop, they finally called and said the block was finished. We decided to start rebuilding the engine today, took the block out of the plastic that the machine shop had wrapped it in and found a unpleasant surprise. The machine shop must have either dropped it or tried clamping the block down on the cooling fins and broke a couple pieces of the fins!!! They tried welding the one piece back on! We double checked some pictures we had taken of the block before taking it to the machine shop and it was not broken when we dropped it off at there shop. Dad called them and asked if they knew what happened to it and they denied that they broke it. Needless to say we won’t be going back to them again in the future! Fortunately the fins will be covered by the shrouds so it won’t be visible. It is pretty frustrating that they had to do that to a correct 1964 block with the screw in dipstick, and not a common 1965-1967 block! It is mostly put back together now and we will paint it in the next couple days.
Sorry to hear about the block issue. Not sure if it is allowed but perhaps list the name and location of the machine shop so others do not have issues. We can praise the good businesses and should be able to alert the members to businesses to avoid.
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