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West,

Your advice taken and a good point. I have come along way (5+ year restoration) and should not cut corners.

If I could I would send the fenders off to have new ones made or have these rebuilt but as we all are aware funds don't allow us at times. Plus if I did I wouldn't be able to drive the car around because of the fear of rocks and what not flinging up on the running boards and other areas of the car.

Maybe it is me being impatient or whatever. But I love driving her once again and getting the thumbs up.

Now where is this cash tree everyone talks about.

Yesterday I sprayed some SPI bed liner on the underside of the fenders.

Was going to brush it on but I did not like the way it was brushing. So I decided to put the 2.2 tip in the HF purple gun I use for spraying the High Build and Epoxy with and this is the results I got out of it. It turned out pretty decent I must say.

After going hog wild yesterday spraying the undersides.

Late today (after Bears game) I got the topside sprayed with some SPI SS Black.

Will get some better pictures tomorrow with some natural light on them.

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Looking good Tom. Looks like the bed liner sprayed very flat and level. Much nicer than some of the other liners I have seen.

Hi Tom,
Bill Stocker here - how is your car coming along have not seen any new photo's? hope you are well, have a Merry CHRISTMAS and happy new year!!
Bill.

Hi Bill,

Not much done since October. Have put Old Bessie up on stands for the winter. I have taking some of the tires to a tire shop to have the tires demounted so I can take 4 of 6 Artillery Wood Wheels to the blaster and have them blasted to get them ready for staining/painting.

Will post updates on how all that goes when I get back from FLORIDA.

A few updates.

Last few weeks I have been stripping wooden spokes on the rims and staining them as I go. Will take some pictures soon and post them.

Today I received the Trunk Rack Lock Knobs from the machinist that my brother works with.

The one on the left are the new ones. What he did was tapped the center of the so a screw can be threaded in to hold down the locking part.

The last picture is from Kanter as you can see the difference on the assembly. One would need to peen over the end thin rod to hold the locking part in place.

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Some progress on the rims. Have then stained and first cost of Satin Spar Urethane. In a day or two I will lightly sand them with 220 and then put another coat of Spar Urethane but that coat will be gloss.

Once I have the wood portion finished I will tape them off so I could sand the metal portion, epoxy prime, a few coats of SPI Single Stage Black and they should be ready for tires which I still need to order.

First two picture are without flash last one is with flash.

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Looking good Tom. The car has come a long way!

Some more progress on the rims. We did our traditional fourth of July at Indiana home. Got back home on Thursday morning so I spent most of the after noon, evening and Friday prepping the rims for epoxy primer and SPI SS Black.

Got up early on Saturday did 4 rims and on Sunday did 2 rims. Each rim I sprayed two coats of epoxy primer let it setup for about four hours then sprayed 3 coats of the black.

Last week I order tires from Universal and I received them on Tuesday two days earlier then I expected them to arrive. So now that I have the tires, rims all painted they are almost ready to go. I just need to get the snap rings off to the platter and get them platted and then they will be ready for the new skins.

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Tires mounted and took old Bessie out for a spin today. It was a beautiful day for it.

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