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Howie replied to the topic Old Farts 62 LCC build in the forum Suicide Slabs Build Pages 9 years, 11 months ago
Thanks Jeremy, it was a 3 years build
We powder coated as many pieces we could, all the front suspension, trans mount ,valve covers, trans pan ,oil pan ,brackets and even the drive shaft
We cleaned all the parts and blasted them ourselves at home and made good use of the powder coating kit .Even built our own powder coat oven -
Howie replied to the topic Old Farts 62 LCC build in the forum Suicide Slabs Build Pages 9 years, 11 months ago
One more shot
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Howie replied to the topic Old Farts 62 LCC build in the forum Suicide Slabs Build Pages 9 years, 11 months ago
Thanks Jeremy, these LCC’s are a challenge
The next step was to get the car running and rolling and then back to the body shop for final paint.
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Howie replied to the topic Old Farts 62 LCC build in the forum Suicide Slabs Build Pages 9 years, 12 months ago
Put the suspension etc back in to make it a roller before final paint
Also put a matting down on the floors etc -
Howie replied to the topic Old Farts 62 LCC build in the forum Suicide Slabs Build Pages 10 years ago
Painted the undercarriage and the interior of the shell so we could start some reassembly
Powder coated the suspension and a bunch of other parts .I bought the Eastwood powder coat system and made an oven . -
Howie replied to the topic Old Farts 62 LCC build in the forum Suicide Slabs Build Pages 10 years ago
The car has been completed for about 3 years now ,just thought I’d put a few pics of the build up here to help get things going in this section
Got the undercarriage completely stripped and put into epoxy primer
Really strange that the only real issue was some rust pinholes in the front crossmember which is the heaviest steel in the car. It was…[Read more] -
Howie replied to the topic Welcome! in the forum General Discussion 10 years ago
Thanks for the welcome guys
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Howie started the topic Old Farts 62 LCC build in the forum Suicide Slabs Build Pages 10 years ago
Seems pretty quite here so I’ll help get things rolling
Here’s some pics from my Dad’s 62 build
First pic is what we started with
Dad actually bought the car from Chris Dunn at Lincoln Land
Chris said he bought it to part out but when he got it back to the shop he found it in too nice of shape to do that.
Second pic is after teardown and removing…[Read more] -
Howie replied to the topic Project JFK Ride aka #JFKRide in the forum Suicide Slabs Build Pages 10 years ago
Should be badass
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Howie replied to the topic 64 Suicide Slab "Degenerate Lifestyle" Build in the forum Suicide Slabs Build Pages 10 years ago
Can’t wait to see more
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Howie replied to the topic Welcome! in the forum General Discussion 10 years ago
Thanks for starting this site, it should be fun
I’ve loved these cars for years
My Dad has a kustom 62 LCC and we have a hardtop that is sitting and waiting to be built.
We’re in the middle of building a 56 Continental MK II convertible right now, so the 62 hardtop will have to wait a while.
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Howie became a registered member 10 years ago