My coupe by 66Lincoupe

2 minute(s) of a 130 minute read

4-28-2014

Again, not my Lincoln... I am waiting on temperature so I can paint; Okay, actually I just don't have the drive to work on Frankenstein lately. So I putter around doing "other stuff"...

My daughter got her license last year and has always wanted an ElCamino. She found one and we started working on it in February but it was very rusty. I asked her to look for a parts car. She called me and said she'd found one. Turns out the "parts" car is better than the project. So we're swapping a bunch of parts over. This car is still rusty, but nowhere near as rusty as the first one.

I got the floors in for her and the seams sealed, then I will undercoat or truckbed liner coat the floors top and bottom. I still have some wire brushing and resealing to make it a good driver but at least now her feet don't drag 

Yes, this one is an SS. 1981, but at some point in its life it got hurt or something because it has a 1979 front clip. I grew up with G-body GM cars so this is like a second youth!! I used to put different front clips on rusty or crashed ElCaminos. The shop truck I used when I had the hydraulics shop was a 1979 with a Grand Prix front clip, dashboard and interior. I'm trying to find pictures, but that was back when it took you a week to see if the darn pics came out!! 

Her original project car is a 1981 also, we had already installed a cowl hood and built the engine and transmission and were starting to cut away the rotted parts which didn't leave us with much car afterwards. This one after about 9 hours of labor is almost ready to drive. A couple hours to install the engine and I can send her to the parts store to pick her own parts up!!