Re: Richter's '53 Caribbean
Posted by Richter12x2 On 2014/5/14 11:35:37
Cleaned up and reassembled the good grill that will go on the car today - the one that came with had a small kink in the bottom rail, so I swapped it with the better condition outer from the Clipper. Here's the completed grill assembly.
Also continued scraping and cleaning the new engine. I got a lot off, but I'll probably have to break out the wire wheel to get the best of it. I also ordered the Packard gray paint from Bill Hirsch today, along with a quart of his silver rust encapsulator that I'll use on the inside panels before topcoating.
Plan is, after work today to go back to the storage building and try again maybe to get the Clipper spun around - if not, I'll at least get it up on dollies and get the driver's fender off, and hopefully start on the interior.
The panel that goes behind the lower grill bar - that looks to be just painted silver/gray, not chrome, is that correct? It's close to what the dull chrome looked like, but as you can see the chrome shined up pretty well, that panel didn't.
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Also continued scraping and cleaning the new engine. I got a lot off, but I'll probably have to break out the wire wheel to get the best of it. I also ordered the Packard gray paint from Bill Hirsch today, along with a quart of his silver rust encapsulator that I'll use on the inside panels before topcoating.
Plan is, after work today to go back to the storage building and try again maybe to get the Clipper spun around - if not, I'll at least get it up on dollies and get the driver's fender off, and hopefully start on the interior.
The panel that goes behind the lower grill bar - that looks to be just painted silver/gray, not chrome, is that correct? It's close to what the dull chrome looked like, but as you can see the chrome shined up pretty well, that panel didn't.
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