week 14 December 2013 Windshield Wipers

This week a bit of tinkering to make sure body location is good... defroster & windshield wipers...

I used the '05 wiper motor & made linkeage to connect to the '69 mechanism at the stock locations...

I was able to make the driver side work... but the passenger side mechanism made contact with the '05 frame. I'll spend some more time on it before I'll have to solve this before I mount the body to the frame.
  - anyhow here is a video of testing the wiper mechanism.

Week 11-13 December 2013 Passenger qtr install

With the qtr wheel well flared & the original body cut-  With the old qtr cut out... & the body hanging from the ceiling the qtr. wanted to open up... so I propped it up in the middle & pulled the qtr back together with straps... *when I cut the qtr out... I had the new qtr in place & cut them together... so I new the gap should be just the thickness of the cutoff wheel... & with the but clamps in place the panel all lined up like it should. It's time to install the new qtr... sliding the wheel well back about 2"   Lots of welding & Lots more grinding...

panel clamped in place

with the body on the frame the fat wheels... it just drips testosterone.
I really like the extra muscle, I'm more excited than ever about the project.