1958 Chevrolet Delray

[Admin]

Restoring the headlight buckets as well. Upgraded the adjustment hardware, wiring and gave the buckets a new paint job.
Baked the buckets at 200* for a bit, helps with hardening the paint.
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Nice!

 

[Admin]

Slowly getting the dash wiring done.
Making sure that everything is in the proper spot before cutting and crimping terminals on.
Mapping out the Ignition Switch next.

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Looks familiar. Keep it up.

 

[JohnnyBgood]

Restoring the headlight buckets as well. Upgraded the adjustment hardware, wiring and gave the buckets a new paint job.
Baked the buckets at 200* for a bit, helps with hardening the paint.
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Did you really use your BBQ to bake the paint?…

 

[58chev]

Did you really use your BBQ to bake the paint?…

HeHe I did, now the heat created by the bulbs will not discolour or make the paint peal.

I have used my BBQ in the past to heat up heads and then degrease them with Dollar Store Oven off

 

[58chev]

Looks familiar. Keep it up.

Thanks Frank

Painfully slow, making sure every wire is where it should be then to cap off some of the ones that will not be used.

 

[JohnnyBgood]

HeHe I did, now the heat created by the bulbs will not discolour or make the paint peal.

I have used my BBQ in the past to heat up heads and then degrease them with Dollar Store Oven off

Ha..absolutely love this…a true hot rodders mind set…use what you have..and if you don’t have what you need …damn well find something that will work…2 thumbs up on this one…I wonder if the smell from the last thing you cooked on the grill gets imbedded in the paint that you are curing…ha…I smell hamburgers..lol..

 

[58chev]

Picked up rear quarters from @58Yeoman to salvage some panels off of.

 

[58chev]

Took my body/buzz saw to the passenger side and removed some areas that will get used to repair some spots on my 58.

 

[58chev]

Chopped up the drivers side, very little left for the scrap yard
Will take the winter months to work on fixing the quarter panel before attempting to weld it onto the car.



Will be using these panels to iron out my welding technique. Get the settings right on the welder and hope for little to no blow through as I go along

 

[58chev]

Picked up a pair of newer DRL/FOG lights and thought they would fit perfectly where there is a dummy lens on the 58.

Put together a circuit to check the lights and now to run this new circuit into the harness.


Cut the template from an old aluminum server shelf that I salvaged years ago.

 

[JohnnyBgood]

Any updates?

 

[58chev]

Finally some time spent on my car.

Got the front all wired up and created the DRL/FOG light harness and installed.
Grill finally mounted and no longer getting knocked around.

 

[ratrig]

Looking Good

 

[JohnnyBgood]

Never seen tape like that..what is it?

 

[58chev]

Never seen tape like that..what is it?

Got it off Amazon Automotive Harness Tape

Where ever I could I wrapped the wires with it.

Looking Good

Thanks