66 Sport Fury-From The Beginning

Chuck just sent me this pic along with a note saying he has all the bottom pieces of belt trim and the two "C's" back from the anodizer! Just starting on the top pieces. Then we get the accent paint and send those babies home to me.... In the meantime, the car is still at the performance shop getting all new suspension and the 440/trans/rear end finished off while I continue to work my off hours on renovating the garage. So far the wiring is pretty much complete and we have a couple days left on insulation. I should have all this done by the time I'm 90 and DMV makes me surrender my Driver's License....

And I still need the two front wheel opening trim pieces if anyone knows of a set in good condition somewhere....

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Started a off frame restoration of my 65 Sports Fury and this is what I ended up with!!! Had to have a ride!!!
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Another day in the life of an old car enthusiast….
Spent the evening removing these seats from the red vert parts car. With three sets of seats, I think I finally have a full set of undamaged aluminum trim for the seats to send to the aluminum restorer since he's almost done with the belt trim. I'm trying to finish stripping this car so I can get it out of my driveway. No need to keep it since it's full of bondo and sat on the ground for ten years so the bottom is toast.
I pulled the trigger on the inside windshield trim with a local powder coater who didn't mind trying to coat some pot metal and it turned out great so there's some more pieces that don 't have to go to the chrome restorers. Now we can keep our first born for a while longer haha.
Lastly, does anyone know the trick for removing the vinyl visors off of the metal rods without damaging them? I really want to try and reuse them so I could use a little guidance.

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Clay Harrison said:
Another day in the life of an old car enthusiast….
Spent the evening removing these seats from the red vert parts car. With three sets of seats, I think I finally have a full set of undamaged aluminum trim for the seats to send to the aluminum restorer since he's almost done with the belt trim. I'm trying to finish stripping this car so I can get it out of my driveway. No need to keep it since it's full of bondo and sat on the ground for ten years so the bottom is toast.
I pulled the trigger on the inside windshield trim with a local powder coater who didn't mind trying to coat some pot metal and it turned out great so there's some more pieces that don 't have to go to the chrome restorers. Now we can keep our first born for a while longer haha.
Lastly, does anyone know the trick for removing the vinyl visors off of the metal rods without damaging them? I really want to try and reuse them so I could use a little guidance.

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How about some pics of what they did w/inside windshield trim? I think the visor should just slide off the rod.
 
Clay Harrison said:
Another day in the life of an old car enthusiast….
Spent the evening removing these seats from the red vert parts car. With three sets of seats, I think I finally have a full set of undamaged aluminum trim for the seats to send to the aluminum restorer since he's almost done with the belt trim. I'm trying to finish stripping this car so I can get it out of my driveway. No need to keep it since it's full of bondo and sat on the ground for ten years so the bottom is toast.
I pulled the trigger on the inside windshield trim with a local powder coater who didn't mind trying to coat some pot metal and it turned out great so there's some more pieces that don 't have to go to the chrome restorers. Now we can keep our first born for a while longer haha.
Lastly, does anyone know the trick for removing the vinyl visors off of the metal rods without damaging them? I really want to try and reuse them so I could use a little guidance.

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Hey Clay: Was your windshield trim pitted (before the powder coater did the work)? If so, that trim looks amazing. And I need his name. . .
 
Ripinator said:
Hey Clay: Was your windshield trim pitted (before the powder coater did the work)? If so, that trim looks amazing. And I need his name. . .
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Actually this was a painted set from a non sport fury. They were identical except not chrome. Thought we'd do an experiment and it worked out pretty good.
Just a warning tho, I'm told the process can ruin a piece of pot metal so you have to have a backup plan.
And no Rip, it wasn't pitted.
 
Clay Harrison said:
Actually this was a painted set from a non sport fury. They were identical except not chrome. Thought we'd do an experiment and it worked out pretty good.
Just a warning tho, I'm told the process can ruin a piece of pot metal so you have to have a backup plan.
And no Rip, it wasn't pitted.
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Dayum!
 
Another small update.
Chuck just sent me these pics of the restored Belt Trim. This brings the aluminum restoration phase to a close. This gentleman does absolutely meticulous work on aluminum.... They'll be here about the time I return home from a short visit with the next owner of this car-my grandson!!!
I know it's going painfully slow but it will be nice when it's done.
Side Bar-The scrap folks will be hauling off the remnants of the Red parts car tomorrow. SWMBO and I picked it clean and now it's going to the bondo crusher.

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That trim is beautiful! Some people are so very talanted, it is amazing. My question is, how is the black stripe painted on the polished parts. It seems that masking tape would be almost impossible and probably give less tha disirable results. Also is adhesion a problem on the polished surface? LC
 
'66 Fury I said:
That trim is beautiful! Some people are so very talanted, it is amazing. My question is, how is the black stripe painted on the polished parts. It seems that masking tape would be almost impossible and probably give less tha disirable results. Also is adhesion a problem on the polished surface? LC
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I don't have answers to either of those questions. I will ask!
 
Well I'd like to say I'm back but not quite yet. This is my post from Oct 2020

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OK another update.
Since we are now in the process of transferring the hoard to the farm from the small house, I've made the decision to try and minimize moving the car around without power. This weekend I'll be moving the car, the nearly complete engine, and the tranny to a local Mopar performance shop to have the following done:
Finish off the motor bolt-ons
Rebuild the tranny
Break in the motor on the run cart
Install the motor and tranny

This way the car will have power and moving it around won't be such a pain. Plus by then, I'll have the new to me garage ready to bring her home with a quick stop along the way for new exhaust.
Still waiting for the remainder of the trim to arrive from the polisher.

And we just bought a brand new chicken coop......

***Almost 4 years later, a bunch of phone calls, visits, and text messages and the mechanic has finally started working on my car. I'm not gonna bore you folks with all the details but in his defense he had just closed his business when I took him the car and motor but agreed to work on it "in retirement"! He was in the middle of developing a housing development and even ended up suing the builder of his new shop to get it finished.

So I got the call on Monday that he was not liking how tight the motor was when trying to turn it over by hand so I gave him the green light to do some forensic "peeking". Now my motor is broke down again and we've discovered the wrist pins are locked up? Not sure how this happened since the machine shop mounted the pistons on the rods prior to the rebuild. Maybe from setting all this time?

The long and the short of it is that I'm finally glad we're making some movement and I'll try and post some updates as they happen.
 
Clay Harrison said:
Well I'd like to say I'm back but not quite yet. This is my post from Oct 2020

​

OK another update.
Since we are now in the process of transferring the hoard to the farm from the small house, I've made the decision to try and minimize moving the car around without power. This weekend I'll be moving the car, the nearly complete engine, and the tranny to a local Mopar performance shop to have the following done:
Finish off the motor bolt-ons
Rebuild the tranny
Break in the motor on the run cart
Install the motor and tranny

This way the car will have power and moving it around won't be such a pain. Plus by then, I'll have the new to me garage ready to bring her home with a quick stop along the way for new exhaust.
Still waiting for the remainder of the trim to arrive from the polisher.

And we just bought a brand new chicken coop......

***Almost 4 years later, a bunch of phone calls, visits, and text messages and the mechanic has finally started working on my car. I'm not gonna bore you folks with all the details but in his defense he had just closed his business when I took him the car and motor but agreed to work on it "in retirement"! He was in the middle of developing a housing development and even ended up suing the builder of his new shop to get it finished.

So I got the call on Monday that he was not liking how tight the motor was when trying to turn it over by hand so I gave him the green light to do some forensic "peeking". Now my motor is broke down again and we've discovered the wrist pins are locked up? Not sure how this happened since the machine shop mounted the pistons on the rods prior to the rebuild. Maybe from setting all this time?

The long and the short of it is that I'm finally glad we're making some movement and I'll try and post some updates as they happen.
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Clay Harrison said:
Well I'd like to say I'm back but not quite yet. This is my post from Oct 2020

​

OK another update.
Since we are now in the process of transferring the hoard to the farm from the small house, I've made the decision to try and minimize moving the car around without power. This weekend I'll be moving the car, the nearly complete engine, and the tranny to a local Mopar performance shop to have the following done:
Finish off the motor bolt-ons
Rebuild the tranny
Break in the motor on the run cart
Install the motor and tranny

This way the car will have power and moving it around won't be such a pain. Plus by then, I'll have the new to me garage ready to bring her home with a quick stop along the way for new exhaust.
Still waiting for the remainder of the trim to arrive from the polisher.

And we just bought a brand new chicken coop......

***Almost 4 years later, a bunch of phone calls, visits, and text messages and the mechanic has finally started working on my car. I'm not gonna bore you folks with all the details but in his defense he had just closed his business when I took him the car and motor but agreed to work on it "in retirement"! He was in the middle of developing a housing development and even ended up suing the builder of his new shop to get it finished.

So I got the call on Monday that he was not liking how tight the motor was when trying to turn it over by hand so I gave him the green light to do some forensic "peeking". Now my motor is broke down again and we've discovered the wrist pins are locked up? Not sure how this happened since the machine shop mounted the pistons on the rods prior to the rebuild. Maybe from setting all this time?

The long and the short of it is that I'm finally glad we're making some movement and I'll try and post some updates as they happen.
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OK, we finally have some movement here.

Engine is back together. The long and the short of it is the wrist pins were sized wrong and caused a small amount of grief! So some more cash to a new machine shop and pretty much a complete tear down and rebuild and we're back where we started?

We also got most of the suspension parts and some misc bolt ons lightly blasted so everything will be all clean when it goes back together.

FINALLY!!!
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