Hello everyone,
So I had bought this 1985 FB from my friend Adler. From him it received it's title the Hooptie. It had seen better days. When he asked me if I was interested in it I asked him whats wrong and I he told me this that and the other thing, but the biggest this was that it's ugly. So I went and looked at it once they got it running decent and decided that I was sick enough in the head to go ahead and get it.
Here is what it looked like when I got it:
The car was originally a 12a car but had a rebuilt street ported 13b swapped in with a holly 465 carb that I'm still trying to get to run right.
So I got some adapters to run my wheels but the wheel studs stuck out past the adapters so I had to do some grinding then reinforcement:
Which let me do this:
So the suspension was feeling kind of old so I got some new struts and bushings and got to work:
Then one night some alcohol and spray paint got mixed and this happened:
Then I moved:
I got bored one day and decided to clean up some of the rusty spots and started with the radiator duct:
Which expanded to the front piece and the vent piece in front of the windshield:
Then the Hooptie got naked cuz it heard the bishes love it:
And more painting happened:
Then I test fit the parts to see what they would look like. Nothing bolted here:
Then I took the parts back off and set them in a pile of shiny:
Then went back to painting:
And that is where I am currently. The driver side fender and the bottom of the hood are drying. I will be painting the top of the hood tomorrow after work then I start on the doors and will be going from there. I'm using spray paint so I'm shooting for more of an "It looks good from ten feet" approach.