Scroungers Gasser Project

Yep I had done a couple as a panel but nobody really seemed interested so I never posted them.

I think the panel idea was brought out but never pushed. One thing about a panel there would be more leg room compared to a truck but same as leaving it a car. All comes down to looks I guess.

I pretty stoked today. At least something will get done on this project even if it's just getting the hood off. I don't think we have ever had a progress page with 16 pages and not one thing was touched yet.   

I've even been cleaning up post that didn't really work in the build log. Just talk. If not we would have had over 20 pages by now. It's all good though. Glad to see people tickled over the gasser.    

Was a real blast to get out there with everyone and have a good ol' wrenching session! Nice to chat with folks and share some smiles and progress!

Later,

Lee

After some of the guys checked over the car we talked about what would be the best way to make this body work for what we want. Looks like we are cutting this 4 door up and by the time we are finished we will be beating on a Gasser Pick Up.

You could not ask for a better day to work for this time of the year. First day in weeks the sun was shining bright. It wasn't warm but after having a few days of below 0 weather this was a heat wave!

After 12 days the hood comes off.






More talk and looking.

Once all the talk about what we are going to do with body, frame and suspension we started the tear down. It looked like a bunch of vultures ripping into a road kill.

Driveway was full.

Front doors are off and some of the guys are working on getting the dash out while other work on the bumper.

Man I wish I lived closer.

Chris55 wrote:Man I wish I lived closer.

Me to!   

Just with that big goofy bumper off it looked 100 times better.

Randy jumped head first into the rust bucket work today. I thought for sure that someone was going to get rust in their eyes. Looks like we all made out okay other than me running a cut off blade into my knuckle while cutting the bumper off.

Once the guys got the dash loose Lee put it in his truck to take back home. He's going to strip it down at his house.

Next to go is the steering column and wheel.

Duke took the steering wheel with him. He's the only one of us that has ever used epoxy to restore a steering wheel. It's in really bad shape. If it can be saved then we will use it. If it's too rough we will ditch it for something else.