Guys the more I work on this Coupe the more it looks crude, being Home built and designed. Tons of mistakes and miss designs and most will get covered over with fillers and other stuff. But that's what you get when you are not in a factory setting with good equipment. I will plunge onward and see what I get.
Scratch Building a Coupe
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Still waiting for my wiring stuff. So I attached the rear valance piece that I cut from the sheet when I 1st got it. I needed a full length piece so I put it on today before it rust up. That's about it except for painting the battery box it will be hard to do once bolted down.
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Looking at the photo it all looks off, but I knew I would have to extend the right rear of my trunk lid with a skin it was off when i first made it. Once I do that and do the body filler to get a lip on the trunk I will be ok. It is off quite a bit the right side is shorter than the left. I dont remember how I did that but I did.
earthman
Fascinated by rolling objects!
Sure it looks crude. Be proud of it's uniqueness! Let the rain even out the patina and put some excellent looking wheels and tires on it.
Okay. some of my wire stuff came I used shrink tubing to splice wires back on the main harness that plugs into the back of the dash. I have all of them done and most of the dash stuff works and lights up. I have a chart of what all the wires are and color codes.I used a small 12 battery charger for my power source. I will use most of the stuff in the dash with the exception of the gas gauge. turbo gauge and probably the tachometer as I dont think it will work off a coil like the old ones used to. I have one of them ill probably use that. Most of the warming lights work, high beam indicator, 4 way flashers, oil, bat, temp and dash lights. So I am please i will have at least this amount of goodies. My ATC fuses holders came today but I have to wait for my terminal ends maybe tomorrow it will come. I need to get my fuse panel up and running so i can hook all this stuff up. I soldered all the splices before i covered them with shrink tubing. remember always use Rosin Core solder for electrical wiring, if it does not sat Rosin Core dont use it. It could be acid core used for tin and will corrode all your wiring in about a month or so. Be watchful on this. i have a few snaps
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I modified my trunk some to get a better fit of the valance I added a piece on the bottom of the trunk lid to even up the side lengths.It looks much better I still have more to do but I used what metal I had before i run out.Ill get a few snaps tomorrow.
Snake Farm
Ol school snake charmer!
My terminal wire ends arrived today. I started the fuse box and have some snaps of the rear valance work where i had to straighten out the trunks side length as one side was an inch shorter. I'm also ready to bolt down the battery box in the trunk all painted and caulked the seams
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put a coat of paint on the fuse box and tested some switches for down the road. A;so took the time to mount my dual oil filter set up it has been dangling for a while. I found the only place to hang them where I can change the filters easily. and away from heat sources.
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Lazy day only thing done was to install a home made grommet in the fuse panel for exit wires. I saved some hoses from washers i got from the local dump when i was saving sheet metal. I found that the end of one of the hoses had a step down in diameter and had a ring to go around it to stop it from falling out. I cut this off drilled a hole where i needed it and installed the grommet and the ring to secure it. Its large enough for lots of wires. Plus I added some mounting tabs on the top edge of the panel and one on the bottom. The place i found to put the panel is on the passengers side top right side kick panel. It got in the way of the clutch pedal on the drivers side, No big deal just a few longer wires for some stuff.
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sgtpontiac
Older, Wiser and Still Buildin'
Yep.....
hate those flash oil fires...lol.... looks like the spot for them to reside....nice
Snake Farm
Ol school snake charmer!
Mission Completed, My 18HP Riding Lawn mower Craftsman pulled the Coupe out of the garage with no room to spare. I fetched the Merkur from behind the garage and yanked her around front. I had help guiding it into the shop close fit but its in. I found the correct spot for some tubing on the floor of the Merkur when i cut the back roof down and off to make a pick-up. The framing from the rear seat front lip framing is level and a good place to start my tubing when I start this operation. I think if I weld in the braces where i found this spot it will frame the roof and rear window as well as connect to the truck bed. Any way that’s that. I took some photos of the Coupe while it was outside. I knew it was sort of small but it looks smaller than I thought being outside and full length to look at. What is is is i have some snaps I’m all set for winter Sept 13 marked my one year anniversary of the start of this Coupe from scratch.
