Hope everyone is well, since most of you guys know my car I'm going to pick-up with most recent updates. As some of you know, my youngest has had health problems so I am unable to work on the car at a pace I would like to but it is moving fwd. She has had 2 Surgeries since the beginning of the year and is hopefully on the right track now. She is doing much better and thanks to everyone for the prayers. Special thanks to JDMOPAR and BARRYBUM..I appreciate you guys!

The car is still in teardown mode and parts being restored as I go. The drivetrain, brake system and driver door are all that is left on the car. I pulled the steering wheel column a few weeks ago and loosened the torsion bars but have not removed them completely. It was a great day yesterday, so I asked my neighbor to lend a hand so that I could reassemble the restored grille pieces. Here are pics of before and after. Thanks to everyone on the grille thread for the advice. It's not perfect but I'm pleased with the results.

after

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Jules D'Addio came to the rescue and helped me out with the EBrake assembly. He had a restored one that he called driver quality but looks much better than that to me. It came today and will save me some time.

Thanks Jules.

Update...progress starting to be made again!

Since my daughter's situation has been improving a little, it has given me a some free time to work on the car again. Here are some pics of recent progress.

Took a bunch of parts to my media blaster and then refinished them. Front bumper brackets were disassembled, blasted, painted and reassembled. Here's a close-up.

Driveshaft blasted, painted and cleared for durability. The car will be driven occasionally so forgive me if somethings aren't 100 percent correct.

And a few more parts. Looks like I may need to redo the front sway bar brackets based on another post.

Hello again Joe. Glad I stumbled across this thread. Your grill looks terrific! Keep up the good work, I'll be watching here. Might even post my own.

Tav

Looking good Joe. I'm glad to hear that the little one is doing better

Worked on the shifter some at lunch today here is a before photo.

Here's the after. I was able to clean the shifter chrome since it wasn't pitted. just a few light scratches that weren't bad. I added new grips from Mike at BE&A and new upper and lower bezel with shift pattern from Gunslingers.

I'm real happy with the way it turned out.

how are the bezels and shift pattern replaced?

It was pretty easy and I used the instructions from the Gunslinger website which is who I bought the bezel pieces from...

Upper Bezel instructions:
http://www.pistolgrip727.com/index.php?id=upperbezel

Lower Bezel Instructions:
http://www.pistolgrip727.com/index.php?id=lowerbezel

Shift pattern instructions:
http://www.pistolgrip727.com/index.php?id=shiftpattern

Joe

Looking good man. I didn't know about your daughter. I'm glad to hear she is doing better. I look forward to more pics. I don't make it to this forum enough. I will start wandering over here more often. In fact, I am going to start a couple of threads myself. Keep up the good work.

When I evaluated the front area of the car, I decided to restore the grille myself but send the original T/A hood trim and the headlamp bezels out for refinishing. I chose Matt at MCB to do the work and am glad I did. He polished and anodized them for me and they came back looking AWESOME! Here is a pic of one of the bezels he redid. I asked him to not paint the black areas since I restored the grille myself and wanted the black finishes to match.

And here is the other one after I painted in the black areas.

Today I worked on the gas pedal assembly. I would love to buy a new pedal but not in the budget right now. So I disassembled everything, cleaned it all and then freshened everything up. Here's a before shot.

Here's after.

No need to buy a new one when you are doing nice work like that.

Tav