Blue's Barracuda
Moderator: Moderators
-
DaveBishop
- Posts: 1667
- Joined: Sun Apr 18, 04 11:22 pm
- Location: Alicante Spain
Re: Blue's Barracuda
Blue is right all the early a bodies that I have had all seam to have bad welding where the inner wings fix to the fire wall
2 x 1969 Dodge Darts
Re: Blue's Barracuda
Where's the engine gone chap or have I missed that bit? What's what's going in it or have I missed that bit as well?
"Nah!"
Re: Blue's Barracuda
Engine is on the stand, it will be going back in when I've checked it over and painted it. Didn't really want to take the wings off right now but it's the only way to clean and paint the underside, lots of bare metal under there.
- Attachments
-
- IMG_3507.JPG (167.42 KiB) Viewed 1460 times
“This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no foolin’ around”
Re: Blue's Barracuda
looks like a total re build Blue, good job 
Re: Blue's Barracuda
Rapidly turning into that Ali, classic case of mission creep. Hopefully should start with reassembly next week, not that there's much more I could take off anyway...
“This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no foolin’ around”
Re: Blue's Barracuda
One back on, other side off. As you can see little more than mud and bare metal on the underside, our wonderful British climate would have a field day wth that...
- Attachments
-
- IMG_3531.JPG (231.01 KiB) Viewed 1395 times
-
- IMG_3530.JPG (158.56 KiB) Viewed 1395 times
“This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no foolin’ around”
Re: Blue's Barracuda
Hmm, no paint or factory undercoating on this side at all and a part number under the dirt. Looks like this has had a fender replaced back in the days when they were still available.
- Attachments
-
- IMG_3536.JPG (216.34 KiB) Viewed 1374 times
“This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no foolin’ around”
Re: Blue's Barracuda
Pretty clean considering no under coat and not much paint
Re: Blue's Barracuda
It is Drew but the surface rust is a lot heavier than I've seen on desert cars before, is that normal? It's almost like it's been in a
flood or something.
flood or something.
“This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no foolin’ around”
Re: Blue's Barracuda
Oh yea it could have been in a flood, not to often, and after this many years even here in the desert, it will develop heavy surface rust, but never actually rust out
Re: Blue's Barracuda
Thats useful to know, any bare metal on the interior such as the back of the dash frame has a proper crusty coat, I'm used to seeing just a brown tinge to the metal. Metal underneath is solid it's just the mess it all makes cleaning it up.
“This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no foolin’ around”
-
Don
- Posts: 1844
- Joined: Mon May 09, 11 8:06 am
- Location: DONNY SCOTT IN LANCING, ON THE SUNNY WEST SUSSEX COAST
Re: Blue's Barracuda
Whats the ultimate plan then Blue, you having it resprayed?
......9 SECOND SUPERBIRD .......
Re: Blue's Barracuda
It could have been in a flash flood,survived, and dried out,or just sat on the north side of the house in the shadows,the one thing I always look for is rust on the passenger side ,because people left them on the street,and the right side of the car sat in the gutter ,so it could have gotten wet for short periods and then dried out in the hot sun
Re: Blue's Barracuda
Yes at some stage Don, I'll do the engine bay while the motor is out and the rest will have to wait. Couldn't even do it right now if I wanted too, the lower quarter repair panels have been on back order for the last 6 months. AMD won't even give me a restocking date.
“This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no foolin’ around”