These pictures are of various parts of the car I am currently working on (when I can find time J ).  

Here is a picture of the floor on the drivers side. You can see some surface rust and a black piece of sheet metal a previous owner used to patch it. This car was originally Gold in color, you can see that on the floorboards. I'm going to remove the rust and weld in some sheetmetal to "re-strengthen" the floor. Anyone have a good brake pedal trim? Mine is showing some wear on the bottom right corner. The blue wire you see next to the gas pedal goes to the Console light for the back seat floor area.

Here is the engine bay after I used a pressure washer in it for 2 hours. Lots of work. There was about a quarter inch of gunk covering most of it. The yellow thing up beside the wiper motor is an aftermarket Electronic Ignition a previous owner installed. It has an RCA power transistor on it. If anyone has any info on this unit, I would appreciate it. I plan on using it after the restoration, since I don’t like using Points. I plan on cleaning this whole area up some more and painting it black again.

Here is the engine block after I gutted it. You can't see it, but I couldn't get the cam out of the front, its stuck on the middle bearing. I'll have to let the machine shop take care of that. There is only a minor ridge on most of the cylinders so I might get away with only boring it 10 or 20 over. The tire its sitting on was in the trunk when I bought the car, its from the early seventies. It has a broken bead so I can't even use it as a spare. L I don't know what my weed wacker is doing there. Probably had to fix it or tune it that day.

This is the "new" instrument cluster I got from that guy with all the cyclone parts. I never thought I would ever find a factory Tach. It only has two wires coming out of the back of it. Most tach's have 3. One for ground, one for power and one from the coil. Somebody told me it is an inductive one that has to run in series with the signal wire going to the coil. Doesn't seem to make any sense. Click on the picture to get better detail.

More pics to come…….. 

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