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 Post subject: 73 Thing for the middle Daughter
PostPosted: Sat Jun 11, 2016 4:19 pm 
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Scored a 73 Thing for my Daughter Sara who is turning 15. Plan is to get it to "daily driver" status so she can commute the couple of blocks back and forth to High School.

Needs a lot of work, body is roughish, but perfect for our purposes. Needs floors, engine rebuild, new top, brakes, etc, etc.

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Last on the road in 2005
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Sara in her new ride!
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 Post subject: Re: 73 Thing for the middle Daughter
PostPosted: Sat Jun 11, 2016 8:39 pm 
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She's got a great dad!! NO ONE is lucky enough to roll a Thing now days to school!! :beer:

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 Post subject: Re: 73 Thing for the middle Daughter
PostPosted: Sun Jun 12, 2016 10:30 am 
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Glad you found one for her :thumbs:

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 Post subject: Re: 73 Thing for the middle Daughter
PostPosted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 5:37 am 
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Awesome!! Looks like a good father/daughter project ahead.

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 Post subject: Re: 73 Thing for the middle Daughter
PostPosted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 7:59 am 
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:thumbs: looks like fun.
I'll be bringing a 74 after our house deal.

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 Post subject: Re: 73 Thing for the middle Daughter
PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 2016 8:08 pm 
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How I spent my Sunday. Finally got the last of the triple layered, welded, angle iron floors cut out, lots of careful surgery removing the welds without damaging the tunnel/rockers. Frame is in great shape, inner driver rocker needs some rust repair (beyond the hacked out hole to clear the custom seats).

Worked the passenger doors, hinges were rusted, now they open and remove as they should. Replaced the seals on the top and bottom of the windshield, and windshield to dash seal. Replaced the missing pad below the glove box. Replaced the connection bar and lubed the pivots on the wiper arms. Making progress slowly...

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 Post subject: Re: 73 Thing for the middle Daughter
PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2016 12:00 am 
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Thanks for the update!

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 Post subject: Re: 73 Thing for the middle Daughter
PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2016 8:13 pm 
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You will be finished in no time! That's a lot of work for a weekend.

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 Post subject: Re: 73 Thing for the middle Daughter
PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 9:28 am 
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Making progress. Thanks Ethan, Ryan, Jason, and Jeremy for the help.

Separated the pan from the body, trimmed and welded all the necessary attachments (seat tracks, battery mount, seat belt mount, pedal stop, jack points, jack support braces).

Three rims/tires stacked on top of each other make for a good body holder over the pan... wish I had taken pictures of my getto stand... :lol:

Driver side rocker needed rust repair lower three inches inner/outer, and repaired holes on both sides.

Put POR 15 on outer edges of the new floor pans, installed new floor pan seal, then bolted pan halves to body. Dropped body back on the chassis and bolted everything up before welding pan halves to tunnel so I wouldn't have any issues with alignment.

POR 15 with Chassis Black Top Coat.

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 Post subject: Re: 73 Thing for the middle Daughter
PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 9:47 am 
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Needed to address some rust under the dash/foot well area. Knowing that POR 15 is a bad idea on actual body panels, I just sanded down and applied only the chassis black top coat to the inside of the rockers and under the dash.

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