Tonights work - quite a bit actually...

Sorry about the quality of previous pics, I didn't plan on creating a blog so they were all taken with my HTC Touch Pro camera phone. The next ones (and future ones for the most part) will be with my old reliable Lumix. Anyway, on with the show!

First off, that battery tray in the back is just going to be in the way of my plans for a spun aluminum gas tank so that had to go. It was a pain and I used near every cutting tool in the shop; plasma, grinder, high speed air, hacksaw - you name it.



and with it gone



I also started to re-assemble the front suspension



and finally a shot a few minutes before I started working on it tonight

Pinstriping!

I decided I should learn how to pinstripe at some point so after over an hour of practicing lines and curves I did this fat line design, freehand, no grid. It's not great, but a little better than I expected.

Time for paint!

After a few coats of primer the paint is starting to go on.

It is going to be traditional hot rod satin/flat black, with silver suspension components and red & grey pinstriping.





In the last picture I slash cut the exhaust for a different look.

Final body work and the beginning of primer

The title pretty much says it all, the body work is 99% done and it's time to stop being purple :)

The sanding continues . . .

More sanding, but I decided to play around with the stance a little bit, lower is better!



And a little fun with perspective

The sanding starts

Did some more body stripping and now its time to sand, both kids got in on the action and very much enjoyed helping dad out in the garage.

Progress day 1

The same day it arrived it was time to get to work on the plan so the stripping had to begin.



And of course, there had to be playtime - my buddy John stopped by when I fired it up and had to get in and test it out.

Youtube videos here: John as giddy as a school girl.
and here: John revvin' it up.

My first blog, my first post.

I can't believe that in all the years of interwebbing I have avoided creating a blog, I guess everybody will at some point. I will be detailing the build of a '23 T Bucket I recently acquired after selling my '52 Buick Roadmaster.

The Bucket as it arrived:



The Buick as it left:



The bucket came from a couple hours north of us here in Metro Detroit, on a fairly clear but foggy morning in early January 2009. It picked up some blowing slow on the wide down in an open trailer but I knew I was tearing it all down so I really didn't care :)