My rear-view mirror gave up the ghost yesterday and fell to the passenger side floor, leaving only a coffee ring of rusty residue on the windshield to mark its passing. I am taking this opportunity to clean off the rust before gluing it back on. So far I’m about halfway done, as evidenced in the picture below.
The dash is still bare as I wait for the new one to be constructed and I removed the door panels this last weekend so that I can mail them out for restoration later this week. I also replaced the cassette deck that broke recently with a cheap CD player.
Things are moving along at a nice clip; I had the alignment done yesterday and today I picked up some of the chrome I had sent out a couple of weeks back. I left a few more pieces to be done as well. Later this week I am going to pick up a front disc brake conversion kit and see if I can get my battleship to slow down with a little more finesse.
While it does seem like everything I finish just adds a few more things to the list, I firmly believe that if the finish line isn’t quite visible on the horizon yet, at least I’ll be able to apply my brakes when I get there without sending my corporeal form hurtling through the windshield.
The re-manufactured 302 long block arrived at the mechanic this week and the parts I’ve been scouring the internet for are beginning to trickle into my mailbox. The shop manual was given to me by my dad, the rusted chrome letters arrived from a junker back east™ that is being parted out by its owner.
