Haaaaaa! My mom had a 77 Fleetwood SDV! Black on black with chrome trim... BEST SLED EVER!

 

LOL goin to school in santa cruz i loaded 4 in the front seat 5 in the back surfboards on the roof an 3 more bodies in the trunk LOL she was dubbed the battleship
this isnt hers but its a picture of exactly the same look


car saved my bacon one night she sent me up for something to the local store an like a good driver at 2am i waited at the light it changed i looked an then went on half way through the intersection i got hit right centered on the passenger rear wheel by a drunk i woke up sitting in the passenger seat feet on the driverside the entire drivers side was submerged in the canal engine still running i drove it out of the ditch an parked it in the stores lot i looked over an the 78 ford LTD was sitting there at the intersection frame snapped just behind the engine which was spewing its life fluids all over theres more to it but suffice to say he hit me doing 95mph an i didnt have a scratch the caddie well.. rear pass door never opened again bent the wheel but she drove home after i got the skirt out of the tire an bent the fender off the tread i was more afraid of mom wreckin her car was a death sentence LOL

 

well with all the bent she had im not surprised things dont fit exactly this IS shadetree repairs
drivers side lower corner i had to use a big zip tie through the body hole an then another to pull it into place but a majority of the clips snapped right into place



then kris comes in hey ya know what we should do cut a hole in the skid plate get some 1/4" angle iron an box the center up for a front receiver hitch to slide a winch into an then remove it when not needed thus why the skid plate is hanging there

i was working on the bumper brackets trying to get them straightened out an aligned drivers side needs a pair of washers on the top bolt to get it out where it belongs



also looking at pounding out the dents an ect smooth it out best i can an then do a bit of bondo then paint that bad boy black then all i'll need is end caps you look closely you can see where it crushed back an hit the steering box (round dent)

 

Gotta love a trunk you can fit 4 bodies in, and a car made outta steel I remember those!

Front end looks great. Not to point out a flaw that maybe bugging you, but check the line with the hood down anything more than a half inch or so along the top and the laymen might notice. You might want to bang out the support some more before you get to much further on filling up the engine bay.

I think there maybe something wrong with me, I saw the dented up bumper and thought "that'd be fun" and not in a sarcastic tone

 

well the angle is odd as im taking a picture out over some sawhorses, the hood isnt tight yet as we still need to put the engine in the fenderlines are the best i can do with what ive got if you look back in my build/rebuild you'll see how bad this was in the drivers corner it was down 3inches an shoved back at least that much it bent the drivers fender so bad i couldnt reuse it the inner fender was folded on itself in creases nothing like a 1T chain hoist hooked to the bucket of a 57 international crawler an the front wheels of the runner chocked on curb stones to pull things back out

if the grill is a bit off "shrug" i dd the best i could

 

Lookin great, William! Don't worry, you'll do a fanatic job and in the end? .... It'll be that much more rewarding! And not forgetting to mention, ... all you've had to overcome, throughout! Again, looks great! Can't tell u how impressed I am with wheretofrom this girl has come!

 

thank you mark
i admit if id had unlimited $ id done a lot better but ya do with what ya got

 

bumper BUMPER bumper!!

after much pounding with hammers body hammers hand dollys going to the anvil grabbing a board an the vice a quick test fit an application of a 5 lb deadblow hammer to get the thing out of the grill on the drivers corner the filler strip the mounting tab on the drivers side is snapped off so have to get kris to weld it back to together

got the mounts straightened out as well still need two washers on the upper drivers side to make it right still twisted

not bad.. oops AH took out the gentle cuuurrrve it has ...



feeeexed! it well close enough...




close up look at the damaged area after much hammering an pounding


after a aggressive wire wheeling too much chrome flaked off so YUP its gettin paint


fiberglass filler to smooth things


sanded smooth


primered have to wait for it to fuily dry going out to eat celebrating daughter getting confirmed graduation to second grade! YAY my dragoness is going on in school

 

an after a visit to golden corral burrp

one thing i found out PO used 2 different turn signal sets an the seals are falling apart yay...

 

Looking good!! Black on the bumper or ??

 

i was planning on black but im alllmost tempted to see what red would look like

 

Noooooooooo

 

Lol, jk, it's ur girl! Just seen that go south more than once with the too much red thing. O.o

 

Good god no! APRIL FOOLS PASSED ALREADY! STOP KIDDING AROUND. I've seen a red 4runner that did that and it looked soo tarded. Not even funny.

Edit: well who knows. It was a pretty bad paint job too so you might be able to pull off a clean look . Just remember, almost like what Mark said, too much of something isn't always a good thing.

That's why I did my calipers red. I wanted something to stand out like eye candy because My whole truck is charcoal grey and black.
Anywho look forward to see qhat you choose to do.

 

mark: i sense a disturbance in the force a runner is about to be mutilated by its owner

the dragon! he wouldnt !!

ok ok i was just kidding LOL


its going black the front skid plate as well i need to wire wheel it as well been on the back burner for a while

 

well got the bumper out an warmed up in the sun.. think i got sunburnt.. while textin back an forth with mark i got a dust coat then 3 more coats of black



bumper brackets


an assembled the turn signals are just sitting in there i need to clean them an check the bulbs

anyone got some end caps the bolt plate have ripped lose of the back i planned on drilling through them an using carriage bolts an a flat washer like terry does for some of his





shes dusty otherwise it'd look a lot better
still need to get the filler repaired painted an installed

 

Napolean voice...LUCKY!!!! looks good!!

 

You have really brought that old girl around buddy. Bumper looks great as does the rest of the front end .

 

thank ya cornhusker lot of work sweat an love

thanks jason oh gaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwd in tired today yesterday got a bit too much sun today the wind chill near froze me we had 60mph gusting ripping any warmpth outa the air Mark was texting me an i was shivering trying to type LOL

 

Whats next??!! More pics!!