Resurrecting Grandpa's Dinosaur - a rebuild story. (1963 Chrysler Imperial) by topdawag_mc4

By diyauto
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2 minute(s) of a 137 minute read

1-25-2012

1-25-2012



Thankfully that was not the case 


The floor (and a couple of other areas) of this car might be pretty rusty, be she's tough, and with our help, still has a lot of life left in her. 


We're hoping to get the old floors cut out tomorrow. 


2-2-2012


Progress has been pretty slow the last two weeks due to busy schedules, but we have started on the floors. 


The pictures are kind of sparse, but the video will be much more detailed to show you how we did what we did and why we did it. Whew. 


Before we could do anything else we had to get these monster power seat brackets off of the floors. 


 


Out and ready for cardboard test fitting 


 


Measure twice, cut twice... Right?? 


 


 


Cuttin' board 


 


After the test fitting was done with the cardboard, we started cutting out some of the old floor. This is as far as we got, though, due to lack of availability of our plasma cutter. Hopefully they'll be completely out this weekend! 


 


Oh, and pretty much unrelated, but here is the last shot of my VW before I sold it this week. 





Comments

I remember watching this car come together, such classic lines.

Posted by MPower on 10/12/20 @ 2:16:51 PM

Great name Grandpa’s Dinosaur!

Posted by Diggymart on 10/11/20 @ 2:03:57 AM

Great name Grandpa’s Dinosaur!

Posted by Diggymart on 10/11/20 @ 2:03:55 AM