72 TA : New Project

[njsteve]

More minor things. Applied the "Trans Am" decals on the fenders. It took an hour to lay out all the tape to get the measurements right...and then took about 15 seconds to actually apply the decals.

Installed the original black rubber hood bumpers, three per fender. Got to use last year's X-mas gift: a set of plastic mini prying sticks. They worked great to push the rubber tabs through the slots in the fenders. Anything metal would have damaged the paint and split the original rubber bumpers.





Engine running nicely now that the original coil is back in place and the new set of points are installed.



Even the A/C is working nice and cold...now that it's nice and cold outside.

[njsteve]

Picked up another random part I needed: the RFI shield for the distributor. This is the two-piece metal shielding that goes over the points to reduce the static interferance on the the radio. It does actually seem to work, since I ran the car after installing it and the radio noise was reduced significantly.

[Dave Rifkin]

Any new updates?

[VIPERICH]

you should contact a publishing company and turn this into a resto book/by far the most detailed explanation of a resto on the net that ive seen.the car is stunning.

[njsteve]

Thanks for the suggestion.

I think it would be easier to just start one of those doomsday cults around this restoration, since like those cults there is always supposed to be some end coming that all the members wish and hope for, but never actually does arrive.

I'm hoping I can get this done in time for the Mayan calendar-based apocalypse in 2012 but I guess I have to wait for the next Mayan calendar after that one.

[njsteve]

Not much going on at the moment. Still waiting for more panels to be painted. The bodyman had to get a car finished and delivered last week to free up the paint booth.

Here are some photos of the flares and scoop in primer. Hopefully some paint on these parts next week.

[njsteve]

I can't say enough about 68l30, a.k.a. OhioSteve, who refinished the case for my alternator. I never liked the paint that the original rebuilder put on the case and once I stripped it off, I wasn't too happy about the dark crusty appearance of the original pot metal either.

OhioSteve was kind enough to offer to run the case through his metal refinishing tumbler process and it came out awesome!

Here's the results after I got the case back today and reassembled everything. Looks just like it was hot off the assembly line. Even the original date/part number stampings look crisp and clean like they were just done 14,176 days ago.

Aint she just so purdy!