Building My 1st 40 - A 1976 Redhead Named Fancy (1 Viewer)

[a_traut_man]

@77mustard40 sounds like a plan, may have to put you to work though. got a few items on the list that require more than two hands, or at least the experience of someone who has done it before.

 

[77mustard40]

@77mustard40 sounds like a plan, may have to put you to work though. got a few items on the list that require more than two hands, or at least the experience of someone who has done it before.

Let me know, I'm in. I'll be out of town later this month so maybe sometime in June

 

[EmanC]

Any reason you went this the SOR foam and CCOT covers vs all SOR?

 

[a_traut_man]

@EmanC The CCOT covers were less expensive by about $150 when I bought them, looked easier to install based on the instructions I could find (purely subjective, not sure if this is a reality) and I wanted them in black. I thought the quality was pretty good and all in all I'm very happy with them minus my own screw ups on the install

 

[a_traut_man]

Decided to brave the heat and got around to installing the re-covered seats and a bracket extension kit from Classic Cruisers for the drivers side, sure is nice not sitting in a pile of foam and dog hair while being pushed up against the steering wheel.

Next little project will be some wiring fixes under the hood and once this 100 deg heatwave passes doing a coolant system flush and replacing some hoses.

 

[a_traut_man]

Been a long time since I’ve made any updates but some big progress over the last few weeks.
Finally got the kinks worked out and she is tagged and fully legal so no more just cruising around the neighborhood.
Center console delivered yesterday and working on figuring out a rear bench set up to support a car seat. Aiming to get the top off in the next week or so but before that I’m trying to get the paint fully cleaned up, made some good progress today getting the oxidation off, all original paint is looking pretty good.

Plan is to keep working my way around the 40 and have it all nice and shiny before popping the top. Goal is to do a famiky style top and will work out a conduit pipe situation to support it while figuring out what to do about a family cage. Coming in close behind that is getting the radio working.

 

[a_traut_man]

Have some time off this week so made a bit more progress on paint clean up.
After working a bit by hand the other week I decided to order a 1” buffer adapter for my Griots G8 mini to really get in there between the window trim and the windows/top and it did not disappoint, so glad I ordered it.

Haven’t touched the driver side yet but passenger is almost done. I also need to do some research on how to freshen up the original front turn signals because after seeing how much shine the paint still has I really don’t want to put a worn out looking turn signal back on but keeping as much original as possible is the goal.

I really wish I had the room to disassemble and really deep clean but at this point I’ll take what I can get.

 

[Chungas Revenge]

A lot of products out there. This is a pretty decent one. A little spend-y. Works really well on acrylic.


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[a_traut_man]

Still have some detail work to do around hinges and the windshield frame but she is shining now. Next step is figuring out the best way to get this top off and store it, cause lord knows our little garage doesn’t have the space.

This morning

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