47 Plymouth sedan

[earthman]

Hey! Good to see this again.

 

[Skip]

Now this is an easier way to turn a more-door sedan into a coupe. Looking good. [cl

 

[smallfoot]

Reminds me of my Pop's old Plymouth. He had a 50... Looking good!

 

[Old Iron]

That's a cool ole coupe

 

[bob w]

Yep, like OI said...

 

[sc5080]

Very nice. Congrats on sticking with it.

 

[falconvan]

Thanks, it's by far the longest project I ever did. Don't think I'll ever do one to this extent again but there was a lot of sentimental value attached to this so I built this one for my wife.
I'm on a 5 day off stretch from work so I've been hitting this pretty hard. The front end was together loose without cotter pins so I went through it with my caster/camber/toe gauge, got everything aligned, tightened down, and put in all the pins. I finished up the trunk latch and now it closes, locks, and all the lights work. I needed a center console for the radio and some cup holders so I took a couple of old metal shelves I saved and build that, just need to do a little bondo and paint on it. I also had bought a polishing wheel for all the stainless trim and needed to build a stand for it so that's done. Today I'm taking a break, tomorrow I have one more day off to get a little more done.

 

[falconvan]

I bought this T-bird backseat several years ago and narrowed it to fit; I dug it out today and built a base for it to sit on and snap into. Now I just need to build some brackets to mount the back pieces, make a couple of curved filler pieces for the backs, and make a center piece to go between the backs. Once that's done I'm sending the springs up to the sandblaster. Also test fit my console; needs a little tweaking but looks pretty good.

 

[falconvan]

Made this to go between the back seat; basically a spacer that will get painted dash color.

 

[falconvan]

Hit it hard this weekend; I finished the mounts for the rear seat and made some final alterations to the base. Now it's ready to go to the sandblaster. I also built mounts for the console along with making a shifter trim plate from some aluminum scrap and mounted a Plymouth emblem to it. Now its ready for a skim coat of filler and some primer to get it ready for color. I also dug out all the grill pieces and put the grill together. That was a bear; had to sort through a big box of extra grill pieces for the best ones, fix multiple broken studs, and polish each piece. There's about 20 separate pieces to this grill; glad I have some spares just in case.

 

[Country Misfit]

Looking good--nice ride

 

[falconvan]

Hope you all had a Merry Christmas! I got a lot of little stuff done plus finished up the console and got some more trim polished and put on. I'm hoping to have all the trim on the car except the bumpers and rockers trim by the end of the week. One of the rocker moldings needs a lot of straightening and I've decided to order a set of Briz aluminum ribbed bumpers. They look pretty cool and are 1/2 the price of re-chromed stock ones.

 

[falconvan]

Finished up polishing and putting on the last of the stainless today. That is one hideous job I'm glad to have finished. If I ever build another car of this era, I'm welding up all the trim holes.

 

[23crate]

nice like this model good job !![cl

 

[bob w]

Darn nice looking car. Putting all the trim on might have been a nightmare but it was worth it.

 

[falconvan]

Thanks! Glad that parts over. That Harbor Freight polishing wheel sure came in handy; never would have survived doing all that by hand.

 

[Bamamav]

The last good looking MoPar body until the mid 60's IMHO. Looks like a nice ride! What did the bumpers set you back falconvan? I've been thinking about getting a set for my Lincoln later on.

 

[falconvan]

Thanks! Those Briz bumpers are $225 a piece for this car; prices vary according to what car they are for.

 

[Bamamav]

Not a bad price. I have been on their website but couldn't find any pricing. Mine might be a bit more since I would get the tag surround for at least one of them, maybe both. That's for down the road a while though, got to get it back running again first.

 

[jfg455]

Looking good Pat! Glad to see some forward progress on this one...[P