SPA Modeler

Now dots enough outta both of you guys! lol . Thanks fellas!

I continued on by taking the posts that I cut off of the back of the headlight lenses and glued them in to the holes in the headlight buckets and cut the excess off of the back. I filled the cavities in with Chrome Silver and allowed to dry. There was some excess silver along the edge of the headlight bucket areas but I touched this up by the time the next few photos were taken.



Here I had touched things up and installed the headlights. Here you can clearly see the difference between the old and the new.



another angle which is less noticeable but there:



Here I had applied the BMF to the grille ring:



and here the completed grille/ front clip is:

This is so much fun to watch. Your paitience, skill, creativity - all on display.

This has definitely been a learning curve for me. All new stuff and territory. Thanks buddy Lyle!

'SIXPACK' - love it! (isn't it a V8? )

I agree with Lyle - this is a very entertaining build and the skilss on display are indeed impressive. It's looking really good.

Thanks portman!
Well I got the front clip installed and the motor/transmission dropped in and started wiring it all up and routing the electrical harness.

I'm fully expecting this sucker to actually start!

portman wrote:I'm fully expecting this sucker to actually start!

Me, too. The man did not detail the engine internals, though. Slacker.

Sometimes I think that myself portman! lol

Lyle: My what you don't see! lol

Then I wired up the ballast resistor and the windshield wiper motor:



Then got the voltage regulator installed on the firewall and ran the electrical leads into the main engine wire harness (with the correct color wiring) and hooked the heater hoses up:



Then I disconnected the heater hoses from the firewall because they didn't have any clamps on 'em . I installed the clamps and reinstalled the heater hoses. Then I installed the master cylinder and ran the brake lines off of the master cylinder. I also installed the horn just behind the windshield washer bottle and ran the circuits into the main engine wire harness.



Engine finished photos'll be in the next post.