My coupe by 66Lincoupe

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8-8-2014

After looking at the car as I add weight I decided the rake was a little too aggressive so I decided to look into lowering the rear a bit to level the car out. I have read through a couple threads that mentioned speedway parts adjustable blocks. After asking a few questions I determined that because I'm not going extremely low I could use a straight block. Unfortunately, I didn't know where to start since the Lincoln and Thunderbird springs (and Fairlane) use rubber isolated perches and thus have a weird centering arrangement. I found I could retain the isolators by modifying the clamshell and building some blocks from aluminum. Here are the blocks I fabbed up today.

They're in the car now and I am on my way to get some new U bolts... Pics when it's back together!

7-28-2014

Starting to put on the shiny bits! I forgot to order exterior belt weatherstrip so I am trying to kill time while I wait for it to ship... Getting what I can done like blacking out behind the grille and the wheelwells (which were undercoated but are now gray primer lol)...

Here is the rear bumper and chrome. The bodyshop misplaced a piece of trim for the trunk-lock-flippy-thingy so I am witing for them to find it so I can reinstall the star. Otherwise the rear trim is on.

some more...

Tape and rags were everywhere and nerves were high but so far no oops moments!

8-2-2014

Some more blingy stuff... I'm having trouble finding the barrel clips that hold the letters on the nose. I found the bigger ones for the fender stars and the Continental script on the flanks but the smaller ones seem elusive!

The bumper tomorrow. These things are freaking heavy - or I'm getting older - or tired this is 20 hours now (not on this car). I could've sworn when I took it off it didn't weigh as much.