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Post  duff429 August 11th 2010, 3:02 am

after alot of hours and $$$ metal work like a new roof skin 1/4 patches, floor piece and lots of other screwed up stuff its finnally starting to come around. gotta pay my body guy before we start body work


when i bought it back in 2005 , tore it apart and it sat for 4 years and last aug it finnally started getting some serious work done to it. here is a quick little tour.

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2 full coats of epoxy primer


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my crappy red oxide that turned out more orange than red oxide

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working on getting it on the ground now and rolling , putting some stuff back together and save up to start body work and hope to get a 545-557 motor done too.



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Post  56Tbird August 11th 2010, 10:12 am

I always really liked those Sploiler GT's. That's wild that the roof was gone and the floorpans are rock solid. Thanks for saving an old classic!! Good luck with it cheers king
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Post  ThndrChkn August 11th 2010, 11:48 pm

Me too Dan. Just something about that particular body style. Pretty sleek lookin' for a big car.








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Post  72mav August 12th 2010, 10:15 am

Wonderful Job Duff! Youre doing the ole girl right. Dont see many 70 Cyclones. A fellow I knew in my old hometown lost his in a fire several years ago.
Where the heck did you find a roof panel for her?
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Post  TorinoGT August 12th 2010, 10:41 am

You dont see many 70/71 Torinos... you see even fewer Cyclones! looking forward to seeing how this project comes along!

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Post  duff429 August 12th 2010, 2:19 pm

Al Martin wrote:Wonderful Job Duff! Youre doing the ole girl right. Dont see many 70 Cyclones. A fellow I knew in my old hometown lost his in a fire several years ago.
Where the heck did you find a roof panel for her?
Regards.
Al


the roof was toast from the vynal top. guy on ebay was parting a car out and i boought the roof from him. i used uship.com to have it sent to me from denver CO to iowa then me and my friend went and picked it up.

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Post  Gregaust August 12th 2010, 9:58 pm

Nice work indded , thanks for sharing .. Cool

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Post  Mark Miller August 13th 2010, 1:02 am

Looking good very nice job,are you going to paint it the original color and how much sand did you use?

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Post  duff429 August 13th 2010, 2:58 am

Mark Miller wrote:Looking good very nice job,are you going to paint it the original color and how much sand did you use?

Later Mark.
. Its a factory grabber blue white interior,black vynal top car so it will stay that way. Not sure if I'm a vynal top kind of guy but its a low production car so I think it would be best to stay as close to the way as it rolled out of the factory. Altho I'm giving it some F.A.S.T racing inspired treatment. Big aluminum headed stroker but painted ford blue with all the correct bolts and clamps, aluminum radiator painted black,bias ply front tires ,etc etc. I actually had a mobil guy come out and sandblast my car. He charges 90 a hour and it only took a little over a hour to do the whole thing. It only cost $160 and that was with a $20 + tip. He had a 50 gallon drum hooked up that was almost full ,but there where several on the truck so I don't know. It went really fast expecially on the bottom and trunk because I used aircraft stripper to get a lot of the factory undercoating off and seamsealer. A lot of scrapping paid off with the bill being so little. We D/A ed the rear 1/4s and roof after some aircraft stripper.
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Post  Mark Miller August 14th 2010, 12:40 am

Cool make sure you keep posting pictures up till it's finished.

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Post  duff429 August 29th 2010, 10:18 pm

painted the bottom red oxide like factory.looks orange in pictures. also bedlined the wheel wheels. powdercoated the rear end, have heavy duty poly rear shackles i painted black . had a buddy turn the bushings on a lathe from 1 1/8 down to a inch then hand grinded them to fit. also had to modify the stock staggard shock plates to accept 1/2 inch u bolts from calvert racing. also boxed in my rear end. stuff has to come out as i scratched them when i was fileing and drilling holes for the shock plates and get repainted



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Post  Mark Miller August 30th 2010, 1:33 am

Looks good keep the pictures coming when you have them.

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Post  audietorino72 August 30th 2010, 7:57 am

Nice work !!! Very clean...

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Post  Tore September 1st 2010, 6:43 am

Where did you get the frame connectors from??? LOL Tore
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Post  70bbftorino September 1st 2010, 8:49 pm

looks great, much appreciated lrge clear pix! keep up the good work it was a pretty solid car, now it looks great!
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Post  duff429 September 2nd 2010, 2:30 am

Tore wrote:Where did you get the frame connectors from??? LOL Tore

TORE racing products cheers

thanks for the compliments.

the car was pretty solid besides the roof and lower 1/4s but lots of little stuff that makes my body guy $$$ lol
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Post  Tony M September 2nd 2010, 5:45 pm

That will be a beautiful car when your finished. Nice job
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Post  jcoxracing September 6th 2010, 11:27 pm

One heck of a job on the body! Where did you get that rotissore*? I have been looking for one.
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Post  duff429 September 7th 2010, 1:37 am

jcoxracing wrote:One heck of a job on the body! Where did you get that rotissore*? I have been looking for one.
Justin
. Justin, my friend/body guy made the rotisary when he was in welding school for a project.
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