Build thread ... 83 Coupe Deville

i can has progress?

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This is a reference pic for later:

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nice welds dawg, get some plating done!

seriously bro? those welds look like shit. the bead towards the left isn’t bad, but nowhere near where i want / need it to be. :ahh

i was being sarcastic LOLZ

got some more progress pics for ya.

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And since everyone knows that if you lift weights you are tough, weight benches themselves must be like, the strongest shit on the planet. Using this logic I figured there is no better way to reinforce a frame than to weld a weight bench to it. So that’s exactly what I did.

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Now that the reinforcements are done I got the gas tank back in and started on the suspension. I have no pics of this. :rofl:rofl

:lmao

wtf is that going to do?

it makes the frame mad stronger man. :ninja

Dude you can’t lay frame with an apparatus like that!! :rofl

it’s so that the car stands up straight when i’m on the bumper… like little front legs nawmean.

:rofl:rofl

Ohhh that makes sense now! You should weld some caster wheels to it so you can sit on the bumper and still drive it! :excited

thats it, paint your skin black and turn it into a junkyard hopper, im gonna start calling you crazy legs:lol:lol:lol

yea i gotta get rid of that front bumper too mang!

dont forget to lead the gas tank:lol

Picked this shit up today:

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and then UPS came and dropped:

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Still have yet to order my Bessy clamps, so in the mean time I put some time in cleaning / grinding:

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Got tired of dealing with steering linkage and that god damn jack pad soo:

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Cleaned up some:

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I also got a instructional video on MIG welding. Just watching that for the second time today… everything is in the laundry or i’d be out in the shop practicing. god damn laundry.

bump!! Nice progress! Grind or DIE!

You’re really going to need a shamWOW to soak up this juice!!
Camera Guy- are you getting this???!?!

Serious props on all the work… Putting in WORK!

I would probably scream and go hide in bed having to face rust / welding / bodywork / real work on a “project”. I’ll be watching this to see the full pimpness later on.

Good job too on the custom “front support”- not everyone can say they have parts on their car… from Sports Authority. That a Weider bench!? Haha

Poor impala. Spend the time on that intead! That shit was hot back in the day. Project looks good, though.

“what, that little guy? don’t worry about that little guy.” :thumbup

is that ya tell trace?:rofl…im gonna get my $100 wayne!