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I love me a Galaxie but man, I can't wait until you start that fastback! I also want to see what you have to "unfix."

plasma whackin some junk out.



here the brace is in and the Frankenstein floor is being stitched back together.





bottom side







A little more skin grafting on the trunk floor and I can move on to.... different junk.

Holy Crap he traded off a T-Bolt...

Great pictures. My brother's was white. It was his first car, he got it around 1973.

Great work Dave!

Awesome thread. My grandmother had a black 64 Galaxie so this is like a trip down memory lane. Keep up the good work!

yeah, it was just too much for a daily driver. Lots of horsepower, a tricky automatic trans, no amenities. Living in Michigan, it did not do well in ice and snow, and spent half the year in the garage.
Boy did it run though.

Yes they were. I love them T-Bolts, my favorite car.

Wes's TBolt is greatly detuned, but still has more than enough juice. The fellow building the '63 Galaxie is trading for the Fairlane, and throwing in $6K to boot.

Lots of structural fixing to un-fix. frame rails scabbed together, floor pans poorly fit, Wheel house, trunk extension panels home made, not done very nicely.

It was prob all done around 25 yrs ago. There are nice repop panels and frame rails made for the car these days. I'll have it tore down pretty far to get it right. I'll need to reference chassis drawings to get it all straight.

dave i don't think that old that had that Holman Moody 427 cobra jet ever sold it.

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Good stuff Dave...if I don't sell the house & go nomadic, I'll be looking at doing an old Willys Wagon (4 wd type)in the near future.

"Old Lazy Asses!"Yeah Right I've seen some of the work that's come out of your shop in your spare time posted here over the years and you definitely don't fit that bill.

OK...it's been long enough....you getting this car finished before Christmas?

Hunting has been a distraction. lol.

You just need to make up some paint that smells like corn or apples and they will come to you while you work.....you can thank me later...grin

Its been a lot of dirty work lately. Blasting the belly of the galaxie so it can me coated with epoxy/undercoated.



I brought part of my personal fleet of project cars home on Monday this week.



The red one on the trailer is too far gone with rust, it's a donor for the car I'm building.

it's giving up it's XL interior..



This will be cleaned up, repaired and recovered with factory reproduction pleated red vinyl.

The red donor car also puked out it's 50 yr old power plant yesterday.



The top loader 4 speed is going into the project car, I'll keep the 390 for one of my personal projects.

Keep the pics coming

The shock crossmember on the project car had been gas axed and poorly modified. So I cut the good crossmember out of the parts car (top) and changed it out with the "modified one" (bottom)





here's some of the handiwork from a previous owner.



and now.