Making progress on my '54 Sixty Special

[RobertM]

Well it took me 2 months and about 80 man - hours, but the wet sanding and buffing is done! Chrome and stainless start soon.

I really have a mountain of work left to do. But like a wise man once told me "the only way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time" .

[Steve Strickland]

Great work Bob. That is a beautiful job!

[RobertM]

Slowly but surely making progress. It seems like every nut and bolt has challenged me in one way or another. The exterior is just about finished. I have to put the door windows in which will definitely be a challenge for me but I'm in no hurry.

I'm still waiting on SMS to deliver my door panels. 14 months and counting when the original promise was 6 months. I have a shop lined up to do my seats and headliner this winter.

[Ralph Messina CLC 4937]

Spectacular !!!!!

[novetti]

Great Job !

[srk1941]

WOW! Gorgeous!

[Cadillac Fleetwood]

Absolutely beautiful! A wise choice in color change and such a stately color for a Fleetwood 60S.

-Charles

[RobertM]

I haven't posted any updates here in quite a while. A lot going on, this car has been fighting me but I'm steadily making progress.

I was getting frustrated by some of the small roadblocks that have been happening. Wanted to remind myself that this is for the love of actually driving the car, so I took her out for a ride yesterday. First time on the road since I started taking her apart almost 2 years ago. She still runs beautifully and it went really well.

Im stalled on putting the door windows in. I am waiting on the lower window channel and rubber sash that the windows set into. 2 of the doors had the channels rusted away and I think I'll be better off replacing all the rubber that the windows set into.

I also havent been able to install the windows because I have no power from the passenger side door switches to the window motors. However, the passenger windows do work from the drivers door switch. Looks like I'll be tracking the power line on that side back. Ugh. I hate electrical.

Biggest problem i have tho, and I could use some help here... the passenger front window regulator will only go up, not down at all, even from the drivers switch. Now I have the regulator all the way up right out of the door and can't get it to go down. Ill have to trace that wire back as well, but in the interim are there any suggestions on how to energize the motor in the down direction so I can get the regulator down?

You may notice in the pics that the skirt trim and skirt to bumper trim arent there. Well I had sent them out for repair and I was starting to think they had been lost. But out of the blue they got delivered today! The exterior will be 100% complete by the end of the weekend.

So interior is next. SMS assures me I will have my door panels by the end of the month (they've had them for over 15 months now).  I ordered all the fabric for the interior yesterday from them and have an appointment Tuesday with the shop that's doing the interior over the winter.  The metal parts are aalready painted and I put in a carpet while the seats were out last year. Seats, headliner, and kick panels will still cost me a pretty penny or two