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That is some impressive welding skills N Dave! I fully expect to see you get your own tv show once word gets out about your amazing workmanship/skills.

Cool!

I know you had a thread asking about machines awhile back Dave, did you ever start TIGing? Be ideal for that console type stuff.

I ended up with a miller tig.

the console is tig welded, the roof panel is tig, lots of tig stuff since we've gotten it.

Which Miller did you end up with? I’ve never been a Miller man, learned to weld from old pipeliners and they were Lincoln or nothing guys. But I got a good deal on a Dialarc HF with TIG torch, consumables, argon bottle, pedal, and cooler a while back. It’s older than I am but it’s a great machine, really nice arc all the way down to 15 amps. Works well as a stick machine too.

210 syncrowave

Seems to me that you've really upped your game, Dave. After seeing how much detail you put into your restorations, I didn't doubt your abilities.

But this Plymouth is much more than a restoration. You're building this car.

Is this the direction you're going to be taking your business from now on?

By the way,...you *really* need to see about getting this car featured in a nationally distributed magazine. In addition to the fine craftsmanship you're putting into it, it's a fairly unique model to be building,...*and* it seems as if it's being built to be driven.

Thanks man.

I just took in a pair of 2 door cars. A 59 chev biscayne and a 61 galaxie.

(mine)

Stoked.

You have to do a picture thread of the galaxie for us Dave.

Same old guy who taught me to weld used to tell stories about borrowing his aunt’s 60 something Galaxie with a 4bbl 390 to cruise mainstreet as a teenager. Said he couldn’t count the number of “fast” cars in the mid 70’s he’d smoked in that old brown 4 door.

Morning Dave. How much does heat and moisture affect stuff like the wiring and touch screen stereo equipment? Enough that you have to think about protection, or. It so much in those areas?

I'm not sure I follow. In the installed locations and in future real world use? I am certain it's a valid concern, but we are pretty confident in our locations for this stuff. We are using a couple of products from "lizzard skin", spray on ceramic barrier and sound deadeners. The upholstery guy will be adding to what we apply with matting material.

My main concerns are routing for wires, burn, stretch, chafe, cut etc.

I built a mount for the touch screen stereo and welded it in the console yesterday, fit the stereo and it looks good.

Hard to get a lot of work done with construction crew right outside the window working on the foundation for our new building.

I'm not questioning your locations. I'm just asking if that is something that is considered. I'd like some sort of stereo system in my truck. The floors are nearly completed and I need to think of a way to mount one. Making a console of sorts in front of my shifter, which will be on the floor approximately like the one you have here, would be up against the firewall.

It is always such a pleasure Dave when one of your threads are up and running......I personally would like to see one of your threads loaded with two pictures of your cars before and afters!

+ 1

Love seeing the processes involved.

Anymore progress?

Weddings, new buildings, hunting and many other projects. ND is a busy man.

Hi fellerz.

Exhaust manifold clearance on frame rails.







Frame rail box clearanced for alternator and through tubes added for servicing alternator without pulling the engine.

hood and latch work.





dash, gauge holes had to be... shrunk. New gauges slightly smaller than the originals.