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Finally got around to removing my 25 year “temporary” Grant steering wheel and upgrading to a new Grant wheel. . If i can clean the leather on the white wheel. It my make its way into a 81 Ford Fairmont that belongs to a buddy of mine. He’s trying to gather the cash to have a 302 built for...

I ended up buying a Grant.

Thinking its new steering wheel time. I had a grant gt that i salvaged from another project for way too long. I have the grant billet kit as well. Any info on size and types? Id appreciate it. Pictures would be nice too

Currently out of the country for 8 more months. Been looking at 3d printing. Wonder what kind of “parts” i can make. Sorta hard with no way to test fit

I know. I did take a break and went back at it. Got my dash back together, wired my roll control to a dash light and some other miscellaneous stuff, but im probably going to order a new carpet at some point. So i didnt bolt the seats back in or anything

Why is it you get this deep into your car, then you realize you hate working on cars

Similar to what i did.

…..and two weeks later. Couple coats of por15 inside and a coat of epoxy primer on the outside.

Sneak peek of todays, fail! Went to mix primer and didnt have the right tip for the gun. Oh well. Another day it is.

Finished off the “painting” and installed the deck. Not perfect but 100x better then it was. Also figured out my wiring issue. It was the starter wire connection touching the battery tray. Which was blowing my fuse for my capacitor and amp. Everything was working great for about 20 minutes and...

Yes. Little far from my house. But the wife went and brought me back an iced

Well this long weekend started off ok. My main fuse for my capacitor and amp was blown, put a new one in and it blows right away. So I figured, since the car sat so long maybe the capacitor is so dead it’s popping the fuse. Well I took the capacitor out to charge it and noticed I have large...

Probably around the time I started wondering if I put the bolts back in the front bumper to frame. Got off the exit and it was secure. Thankfully

Big news, I drove the wagon home from storage today. So now if I can find the free time I just might start doing some work on it.

Just finally getting nice around here. Pants and hoodies in the mornings. Shorts and tshirts in the afternoon