We're Calling It the Sweat Shop

 Sure has been hot lately, makes it tough to work very late in the day!  Ray and I also enjoyed a great week of fishing in Canada in early June.  Ray loves those 15 inch crappie up there!

Been installing parts.  Installed all new ignition wires, plugs, points/condenser, and cap.  Loosened distributor and it would not turn!  Took about four days of soaking in PB Blaster and strategic application of a chisel but eventually it came loose.  So we are able to set the timing along with dwell angle for points.

Ray has been doing some great work on touching up the body.  Includes re-creating the pin stripes on the right rear fender where a dent has now been fixed: 


Repairing a rust hole in the driver's side rocker panel (includes before shot, when hole was opened up):




Painting the drip rail under hood.  And painting the rocker cover (also includes a before shot):




Painting door sill areas:  



Seats and cockpit trim were delivered by owner Chad to Too Tall Tim to rebuild in early June.  Hopefully those will be back in July.

Today we finally got the dashboard removed.  Hardest part is removing the temperature gauge - about 5 foot long slender tube that CANNOT be pierced or cracked or else the gauge will need to be rebuilt.  Here's pic of removed temperature gauge:


Then we got the dash fully removed, Ray is stripping the paint in preparation for painting the dash white.  Prior painting of dash from the factory red to black was done with the dash in place, including many of the switches.  Not ideal.  This will look much better.


Ray's got the dash stripped and in primer already:


We were able to leave many of the dashboard components attached to their wires:


Also got the windshield removed today, cleaned up paint under windshield and reinstalled with new rubber:



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