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Hey that looks great! Now I need to get one for my car!




I actually have a 6' (yes 6 foot) long one of those that I had made up that is waiting to go on the wall in my garage. I just need to get the wall painted first.

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Kev, check your mailbox. Yours should be there very soon! I mailed it USPS from MN earlier this week. I feel bad, it's been sitting on my desk all summer and I just got around to mailing it to you.

I can't wait to see the pics of that 6' banner!!

Maybe I'll go get a dozen more printed for others who might want one. I'm sure he'd do it for a pretty good price if I do more than one or two like last time. I'll start a new thread after I get a firm price on them. In true BigKev style, no profit...just cost.

I'd take a couple of them, one for the Speedster and one for the daily.

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I began today with the removal of the front seat. The nuts came off with little complaint after a squirt of WD-40. I wished that I had a helper when wrestling the seat out of the car.

I guess that this could be saved, but I've got another front seat waiting in the wings to be installed. I'll just have to transfer the seat tracks to the new seat.

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After getting lower rear seat out, I discovered the car had played host to a renter. When I removed this mouse nest I found it's owner inside having passed away. Bad Omen??

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I had hoped that I would get away with just front floor pans, but after the rear seat was out I discovered some more. This rust started in the mounting bolt pocket and rotted out the floor section and did a good amount of damage to the floor brace underneath. Once I've got the bad metal cut out I'll see how bad the braces really are.

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I've got a lot of work ahead of me. There's some kind of sprayed undercoating on the surface of every piece of sheet metal. Some comes off easily, most is stuck pretty good. I'm finding that the air chisel with low pressure and a light touch is stripping most of it. Anyone with a proven way to remove this stuff cleanly, please speak up.

Here's where I left it today. I'll be ordering some front pans tomorrow. I've never replaced floor pans in a car, this should be interesting.

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I like the "Inhalation Hazard" sign, and very handy when dealing with mouse feces! BTW, I happen to know where there's a power seat track for a '55 that should work with your manual seat if you're interested.

Keegan,

The vinyl arrived today. It looks great! Thanks for sending me one. I will still in on the back window of my Colorado, as the Clipper wont see the light of day for at least another year probably.

Thanks again!

On the back of my '07 Colorado Crew-Cab (excuse the sun glare):

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Kev,
Are those decals available ? Maybe thru the same place as the T shirts ?
RT

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Keegan,

If I ordered 100 decals I'd imagine that would help to get the price per decal down somewhat. Reason I picked that quantity is I'm thinking of our National Packard Rally here in Oz in 2009 and these would be a great give-away to the Packard owners attending. I'd also have some left over which I'd warehouse for other Aussies if they become Packardinfo members in the future. Could you let me know by PM what the cost of 100 decals plus the shipping cost to Australia would be please?

I started in on the floors with the rear passenger body mount area. It is badly rusted where the body mount bolt sits in the little depression in the sheet metal. As expected it rusted the floor and the floor brace underneath it. I decided to drill the spot welds along the brace and remove the damaged portion. I knew that I wasn't going to be able to fix it on the car.

As you can see by the pictures, the basic shape was still there, but it wasn't going to be around much longer. Certainly I don't want to trust it's integrity.

I got it cleaned up in my little blast cabinet (thanks craigslist!) and cut the first patch out of 16g. I did some hand forming over a pipe and tacked it into place, then just walked it down the brace with heat and clamps, tacking it as I went.

The next two 16g patched went on the sided of the brace. A flat 90 bend, then more tacks and torch work until it conformed with the rest of the piece.

Now just lather rinse repeat on the rest of the floor braces. I wish I could say that this one was in the worst shape.

After the floor, the rockers!

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