7/25/10

Made some progress on the suspension today. Coated the coil springs and applied the brown paint stripes. I have pictures of the location of the original stripes, which I duplicated. One spring will end up with the stripe showing, the other won't. Based on what I found when cleaning the originals, there was no sign of black paint. I went with a dark heat-treated appearance, which I think turned out great. Used an NOS spindle on the LH side. Had to do some detailing and then replicate paint marks found on the originals. I thought they also turned out great, with all the proper natural machine finishes.






The original rear center section has been completely rebuilt. Acquired an NOS Ford 3.50:1 ring and pinion and all new bearings. Proper natural machine surfaces detailed properly. The original snubber plate was restored, need to clean/detail the rubber bumper. Paint/inspector marks were duplicated as found.