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After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee

Posted By: runnerrt

After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 03/11/12 05:24 AM

After 2 years,2 body shops and numerous trips to court my old Bee from high school finally has paint on it. In the 27 years I have known this car it finally is looking good. Now the fun of putting it together.

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Posted By: BigTerry

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 03/11/12 05:43 AM

Posted By: 1_WILD_RT

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 03/11/12 05:47 AM

Looks Great!! Congrats on Huge Progress.. The hardest part is done, DAMHIK..
Posted By: runnerrt

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 03/11/12 04:02 PM

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Looks Great!! Congrats on Huge Progress.. The hardest part is done, DAMHIK..


Thanks, if everything was as hard to get done as the paint I would never do another car.
Posted By: 69gtxvert

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 03/11/12 04:09 PM

Where are all of the "green haters"? (I'm allowed to say that since I have an F5 car myself.) Love it.
Posted By: MrNormsTA

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 03/11/12 04:10 PM

Looks great, keep feeding us the pics. This might get moved to the members project section of the board. Pretty cool you have owned it this long, give us a little history on the car and specifics. What colors are you doing?

Rick.
Posted By: runnerrt

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 03/11/12 04:17 PM

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Looks great, keep feeding us the pics. This might get moved to the members project section of the board. Pretty cool you have owned it this long, give us a little history on the car and specifics. What colors are you doing?

Rick.


The funny thing is, I have not owned it this long. I sold the car in 1991 and lost track of it until 2010 when I bought it back,in about the same shape it was in when I sold it. It is a 383 4spd. car. NOM 383 built pretty stout. Black top and interior, stripe delete. I will post more pics after I pick it today.
Posted By: Mopargnome

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 03/11/12 04:20 PM

The car looks great! Flaky paint and body guys make life hard for everyone! Glad you got it worked out!
Posted By: runnerrt

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 03/12/12 01:37 AM

Picked it up this morning and got the engine and trans in this afternoon

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Posted By: rtmike

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 03/12/12 03:11 AM

Beautiful looking car.
Posted By: DirectSubjection

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 03/12/12 03:23 AM

Nice!
Posted By: Wicked49670dart

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 03/12/12 03:39 AM


Very Nice, congrats!
Posted By: kidmopar

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 03/12/12 05:00 AM

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The car looks great! Flaky paint and body guys make life hard for everyone! Glad you got it worked out!


I only had to go to ONE (1) Body shop! + NO court time!
"Copper State Creations" is THE BEST! Thank You AGAIN "MOPARGNOME"
The "BEE" Looks A W E S O M E !
Posted By: Silver70

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 03/12/12 05:39 AM

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The car looks great! Flaky paint and body guys make life hard for everyone! Glad you got it worked out!



Come on now... there are plenty of people who take their cars to shops, then expect the body men to buy all the supplies from there own pocket and think they can just show up and the car will magically be done. I feel bad for the 72 duster sitting here, but the owner must not care.

Anyways, the green looks great on there
Posted By: Mopargnome

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 03/12/12 03:56 PM

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The car looks great! Flaky paint and body guys make life hard for everyone! Glad you got it worked out!



Come on now... there are plenty of people who take their cars to shops, then expect the body men to buy all the supplies from there own pocket and think they can just show up and the car will magically be done. I feel bad for the 72 duster sitting here, but the owner must not care.

Anyways, the green looks great on there



I am a paint and body guy so I know the pains of doing that for a living. The flaky ones make everyone think we are all flaky.
Posted By: Challenger 1

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 03/12/12 04:00 PM

Wow Congrats,
Isn't it too soon to be bolting the motor up? I see lot's of things that would be easier to do without the motor in the way?
Posted By: runnerrt

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 03/12/12 05:52 PM

Thanks all for the compliments. Yes, there are some things that would be easier with out the engine in there, but there are changes coming at the shop I work at and not sure how long I can work on it there. So I got the engine and trans in it and the rest I can do at home in the garage if needed.
Posted By: Morty426

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 03/12/12 06:03 PM

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Looks Great!! Congrats on Huge Progress.. The hardest part is done, DAMHIK..



Yep - it's all down hill from here
Posted By: runnerrt

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 04/04/12 05:24 AM

Top installed

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Posted By: runnerrt

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 04/04/12 05:26 AM

Engine, almost ready to fire

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Posted By: RoadRunnerLuva

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 04/04/12 07:52 AM

Looks fantastic...great job so far!
BYW..I happen to like the green myself!
Posted By: Dave Watt

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 04/04/12 01:51 PM

Looks great. What size tires are out back?
Posted By: DPelletier

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 04/04/12 02:39 PM

Car looks great! Is it an N96 car? Man you've done alot of work in a very short period of time.

Re: bodyshops - there are good ones and bad ones; mine was great but you sure hear lots of horror stories out there. glad you got it resolved.

Mods; perhaps you can move this to the Projects section, it'll get buried quickly in General and I'd like to see more. Thx.


Dave
Posted By: runnerrt

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 04/04/12 02:47 PM

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Looks great. What size tires are out back?

They are M&H Racemaster Musclecar drag tires N-50 15, No it is not an N-96 car, it had the standard bulge hood and my friend I bought the car from had cut it up in the 80's and put a prostock snorkle scoop on it which I hated. It now has a bolt on fiberglass sixpack hood going on.
Posted By: runnerrt

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 04/26/12 04:22 AM

Finally done in the engine compartment enough to install the fenders.

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Posted By: runnerrt

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 04/26/12 04:24 AM

#2

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Posted By: runnerrt

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 04/26/12 04:27 AM

Side shot

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Posted By: runnerrt

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 04/26/12 04:34 AM

Another side shot. Get the nose together, final polish, get the glass in and get the emblems on. Then I can start driving it.

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Posted By: peabodyracing

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 04/26/12 01:30 PM

Wow I like that car! I don't even care for that green and I like the car. Great stance, looks great.
Posted By: runnerrt

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 04/30/12 10:29 PM

Still more to do, but she was out under her own power.

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Posted By: runnerrt

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 04/30/12 10:32 PM

Here is another

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Posted By: DPelletier

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 04/30/12 11:17 PM




Dave
Posted By: runnerrt

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 06/03/12 06:19 AM

All back together for her debut at Mopars at Thunder Mountain in the morning. It has been a rough couple of days getting it all back together. If it was not for my friends I would not have made it. Thanks Jeff, Graham, Bodhi and Joe. I will post some pictures of it tomorrow.
Posted By: runnerrt

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 06/03/12 11:59 PM

Here are some pictures of her first outting. Still some tuning to do and some small details to take care of, but it felt good to get her out finally.

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Posted By: runnerrt

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 06/04/12 12:02 AM

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Posted By: runnerrt

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 06/04/12 12:04 AM

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Posted By: runnerrt

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 06/04/12 12:06 AM

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Posted By: runnerrt

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee - 06/04/12 12:08 AM

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Posted By: Anonymous

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my - 06/04/12 11:37 PM

Car looks great, nice job.
By the looks of the trailer is this a trailer queen or a driver?
Posted By: runnerrt

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my - 06/05/12 01:21 AM

She is a driver. Did not finish at my shop until after midnight and did not want to wake the neighbors on her first night home.
Posted By: Birdturd

Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my - 06/05/12 03:48 AM

Let us know how long it takes to get the smile off your face

Awsome accomplishment when you get to fire it and move it under its own power! Good looking bee
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