1966 Plymouth Fury 3

[Noel Tidybeard]

red to port, green to starboard!

[CreepingJesus]

Hunter green, I reckon. Just personally, on the basis that the light purple and the red look too...visually light? If you see what I mean. The green's more 'solid' looking on that shape. It's deeper. I think for a lighter colour it would have to be really eye poppingly over the top.

[PhilA]

40 minutes ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

red to port, green to starboard!

I know, but I had wanted to see the red when I walked out the door.

[Noel Tidybeard]

13 minutes ago, PhilA said:

I know, but I had wanted to see the red when I walked out the door.

durr turn the car round 🤣

[PhilA]

Just now, Noel Tidybeard said:

durr turn the car round 🤣

I took a look and I don't think the driveway is actually wide enough to do a 3 point turn on.

[Noel Tidybeard]

2 minutes ago, PhilA said:

I took a look and I don't think the driveway is actually wide enough to do a 3 point turn on.

[hairnet]

4 minutes ago, PhilA said:

I took a look and I don't think the driveway is actually wide enough to do a 3 point turn on.

missis might show you *runs

[PhilA]

5 minutes ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

Negative waves

The tape measure is reeled out to the length of the car. 

You can comfortably park two cars side by side on that and open the doors easily.

It's not a small car

[Noel Tidybeard]

[hairnet]

phil is nuts but not that nuts

 

[Zelandeth]

4 hours ago, PhilA said:

Hunter or Cranberry?

Red for me.  Green seems like something I've seen more commonly, the red seems more individual to me.

Obviously your car, your choice though.  I like both.

[jonathan_dyane]

I like the green but your car your rules.

[danthecapriman]

Both nice colours, but I’d go for the green personally.

[GMcD]

Green.  Red is lovely, but I think it's done too much. 

[PhilA]

Change of pace again. Back to the sheet metal.

The ribs aren't in the correct place to line up with the factory ones (pattern part surprise).

So, carefully aligned up underneath to the strengthening ribs, measured and the centers marked.

Ran out of time (go figure). Tempting to make a metal stamp and die, or have one made. Likelihood of that: slim

[Rocket88]

9 hours ago, PhilA said:

Change of pace again. Back to the sheet metal.

The ribs aren't in the correct place to line up with the factory ones (pattern part surprise).

So, carefully aligned up underneath to the strengthening ribs, measured and the centers marked.

Ran out of time (go figure). Tempting to make a metal stamp and die, or have one made. Likelihood of that: slim

Surely the approved 'Shite method of repair is to pop rivet the side of an old chest freezer over the hole, a quick slap of "middle aisle"paint, and then a piece of old Lino glued on top for added structural rigidity.........

[PhilA]

2 hours ago, Rocket88 said:

Surely the approved 'Shite method of repair is to pop rivet the side of an old chest freezer over the hole, a quick slap of "middle aisle"paint, and then a piece of old Lino glued on top for added structural rigidity.........

If this car was body on frame, yes. However, it's monocoque and the boot floor is a required section of structure to create the box shape that supports the rear suspension mounts.

[Stanky]

Remove a household radiator temporarily, lay it flat on the driveway, lay the soon-to-be-boot-floor metal sheet on top then bray the fuck out of it with a hammer to form ribs and weld it into place. Ideally at 6am on a sunday morning. then refit the radiator in the house before anyone notices*

[PhilA]

On 10/14/2022 at 5:18 PM, Stanky said:

Remove a household radiator temporarily, lay it flat on the driveway, lay the soon-to-be-boot-floor metal sheet on top then bray the fuck out of it with a hammer to form ribs and weld it into place. Ideally at 6am on a sunday morning. then refit the radiator in the house before anyone notices*

Funny, but that type of heating isn't used around here. None to be found!

 

Side topic, making inquiries to get the correct hardware for the propshaft.

[PhilA]

Just ordered just enough to assemble the propshaft. If the transmission does transmission things, I can order the rest.

[PhilA]

I like the ease of access.

Spatchcocked a few bits together. Throttle pedal now works inside the car (wrong carburetor, so hacking it needs to happen).

Also polished some horsepower back into the engine.

[PhilA]

Polished the driver's side headlight bezel up. 

Hard work to even get a shine on, anodized aluminum. 

You see the transition between the bezel and the grille there, the grille is going to be real fun to put a shine on.

 

Bought a new pair of exhaust manifolds too. They should be in next week.

[PhilA]

Difficult to see but I made the L shaped bracket that holds the gearshift linkage to the transmission. It should have a nylon bush in, for now it's just a hole in the metal to support it.

Most importantly though, shifting with the lever on the steering column operates the selector arm on the transmission now.

[hairnet]

Inspection Friday......?

[PhilA]

Not quite.

The uj I bought was the wrong one. So, hammered the old one out this morning, going to try get the correct one.

[PhilA]

Bought the correct uj spider but the mail arrived and it contained shiny things.

I like shiny things.

[sutty2006]

Loving the progress on this. As for colour, I think a dark blue would look neat. With black wheels/chrome hub caps. But that’s just the inner yank in me. My mates just sold his 60s Lincoln continental convertible and it’s dark blue colour looked really good on it. 

[hairnet]

you mentioned spiders there i thought oh no lol

 

[PhilA]

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

you mentioned spiders there i thought oh no lol

 

No spiders. This one is full of wasps.

[PhilA]

Battery tray temped up.

Transmission cooler lines in, that was a fight. Next up, see if it runs again.