The Dark Wob

PhilA wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2019 3:22 am Burger King. Herpes.
Gasoline.

If they had a Burger King at a truck stop with a party row you could at least get them all in the same location...

Bashed another piece of metal into an appropriate shape.
Added a few holes to weld through. Offered up into place to give a visual.
Scrubbed to working an inch of its life with a set of wire brushes.
Duded up in a nice shade of gloss black enamel.

Phil

Yes, I do like gloss black enamel.

Phil

Jury rigged the horns up through the relay, using the new horn wiring in the steering column. First time that's worked in a long time.

Phil

Not as deep as I thought they would be. Do sound like a horn should sound - based on movies

Yup. I consider that to be "just right". It should be a little deeper once it's actually done because the firewall will act as a sounding board, like a guitar.

Either way, it suits the car just fine.

Phil

Today, scraping decades of dirt and old underseal off the body.
Then, attacking with orbital sander and 120 grit.

That's where I ran out of time. More shall follow. Also adapted the vacuum cleaner to hook to the back of the sander, significantly less dust from this procedure as a result.

Phil

That looks remarkedly well preserved to me or maybe I'm just used to UK rotboxes.

Roads don't get salted around here.

Phil

Also don't forget that this is 1951 American steel, not a lot of Taiwanese oxygen with a few ferrous molecules embedded in it.