I had forgot to mention that I changed the entire rear clip about 1' from the back...

This car was rearend-ed sometime early in its life and it destroyed the tail-panel...

Separated it along the seam in the trunk floor and down the sides...

With the new trunklid on everything fits pretty good now...

Before the change nothing was even close...

I also swapped out the 65 B Body 8 3/4" for one from a 63 B Body to narrower the rear an inch...

If you zoom in on the images below you can see the difference...

Looks great , good job .. !

I have made some more progress...

I wasn't happy with the leaf spring sliders as they looked out of place and were way longer than they ever needed to be...

They have been removed and a pair of traditional shackles were installed...

I drilled through the frame and added a piece of tubing with a 1/2" hole and welded it in...

Then it was time to come up with shock mounts...If everything was this easy I'd have been finished a long time ago...

Shocks from a 73 dart were used for the mock-up but are similar to the B Body shock...

All I had to do was drill the bottom sleeve from 7/16" out to 1/2"...

After installing the shackles I rechecked the kingpin camber angle and it is almost 10 degrees...

Time to start figuring out this whole flip nose frontend deal in all steel...

What a monster PITA...

So it needs to slide forward 4 1/4" to allow for the fenders to not hit the doors while rotating up...

This means the hood would have to have the hole for the carbs cut back 4' farther than normally needed...

That's a deal breaker as that is removing all of the back of the hood behind the carbs...

When it is closed the whole top of the cowl would be visible...

Using some 3/4" tubing (steering shaft) that has a 1/2" inside hole and some 1/2" round stock I came up with this deal...

It allows the fenders to close and have an area to land on and then slides the fenders back into place so they fit as good as I could get them to fit...

The bottoms also need something to secure them so round bar was added there and a hole drilled into the end of the rockers...

I started with the drivers side and got all the bugs worked out before moving to the passenger side...

I actually have to weld the fenders to the doors to hold everything in place and then fab all the brackets from underneath...

Moving onto the passenger side I found a few rust holes that needed repair prior to even fabbing up the brackets...

I patch was cut from and old fender and grafted into place to make the repair...

The fenders have repair panels cut from other multiple sets of junk fenders to make one usable set...

Three different ones were used on the left and now with this patch four different ones on the right...

Then it was on to completing the passenger fender typical to the drivers side...

With both completed I ended up with the first two pictures...

Once finished something had to secure the one piece frontend front to rear so more fab was required...

I used trunk latch assemblies on each side located between the door hinges...

They can be seen in the 1st pic...

Location was important as you will see later...

Then i moved on to getting some type of a bracket in place to hold the radiator...

I got lucky with finding this radiator in this condition for the install...

Made everything work and wrapped it up with a period correct cool can...

I then began sorting out all of the electrical...

The cable drive tach needed a hole through the firewall as did the leads for the distributor and coil...

A battery lead needed installed along with an oil pressure line and a temp gauge cable...

I used a pass thru device for the starter however with using the ford relay this cable is only hot once energized...

I installed the battery tray in the trunk and ran the lead forward to under the dash...

Ignition is by a MSD Street fire box which has a rev limiter...

Then it was time to start working on the braking system...

Installed this old school line lock and started sorting out brake line placement...

I finished mocking up the dash and installing the required switches along with the tach...

Time to cut the holes in the dash and install the gauges...

Everything is period correct black faced Stewart Warner...

This is also kind of a final mock-up of everything prior to blowing it apart to start paint and bodywork...

I got out all of the inside window trim and mirror that are to be used and installed everything...

Then removed it all keeping all correct fasteners organized with their parts...

I completed the bracket in the trunk floor to reinstall the original gas tank and filler neck...

I did add a 1/2" fuel line pick-up rather than the existing 5/16"...

I also fabbed up 4 new tabs for the relocated seat belt tabs as the original locations were deleted or relocated...

The grill and headlight bezels were mocked up along with modifying the existing wiring harness...

The entire interior I am using was mocked up less the door panels as they have already been completed...

This kind of gives you a feeling as to what everything should look like once completed...

The floor and inner wheel tubs will be white to match the inside of the roof...

No headliner or carpeting will be installed and more than likely maybe only one front seat...

Then it was onto the hood...

I picked this up along with a near perfect trunk lid...

Didn't know if I was going to use it or not at the time but the guy wanted it gone...

Turns out that it works perfect for what I need...

It does have one disturbing point about it... (1st pic)

i had used the original steel hood to line everything up but it was just too heavy to use as a lift off...

This works and fits really well...

I actually liked the very small hood pin plates and duplicated them when doing the pins for the trunklid...

I shoved it outside to clean everything up in the garage and this is what I got...

I am blowing it apart now...

A lot of little things were done and I didn't get any pictures...

I should be sending some of this away to start body work right after Christmas...

The engine build has began...

I am using a stock bore 440 and shooting for about 12.5-1 compression with an old Crower camshaft...

Heads are a set of reworked 915's with Hooker fenderwell headers...

I recent purchased a Wiend Tunnel Ram with a pair of 660 Holley center squiters...

Distributer is a Direct Connection electronic unit with tach drive and MSD box...

Teardown for paint has been finished...

Mock-up engine has also since been removed...

Fenders have already been sent off to the body shop and are in progress...

The engine build is underway...

Resumed work on the firewall prior to sending the body out for bodywork and paint...

I have managed to get the body work of the entire firewall and cowl area completed...

Welded all the belt molding trim holes closed in the doors and at the 1/4 windows...

Used a Dremel and a little filler and those areas are also finished...

The fenders are progressing nicely...

Also spent a lot of time on the trunk floor where the extended areas were installed...

Tail panel and the area around both tail lights is also completed...

I mocked up both tail lights and they fit flush all the way around the openings...

Fenders are 95% done!!!

Plan on hanging them back on the car tomorrow...

Trunk lid and hood are dropped off...

Anybody out there sitting on a 65 fiberglass hood scoop they want to part with??

Front fenders are back and are installed again...

On January 3rd the rollback showed up and the car went off to start the balance of the bodywork...

When it returns it should be completely painted less any lettering I decide to do later...

With no car here to work on it was back to finishing a lot of small parts...

I picked up this Tunnel Ram at Carlisle in July...

It is a Weiand but someone spent a bunch of time cutting all the extra aluminum out of it...

It needed some of the extra cast cleaned off of it and then blasted...

Sure did end up looking a lot different than one that is not modified...