1930 Buick V12 build

[TFoch]

 

[Essex_29]

A few days ago I got home the fenders from the paint shop. Now I have a
room full of painted parts.
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Time to get busy with the body. block sanding with 180 grit, then 320 on the
orbital sander and 400 grit hand sanding paper for the details.
Of course I found some areas that needed more filler.
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When the body work was done it was time to paint the door jambs and the
insides of the roof and doors.
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Out of the garage for a small drive. When we reached the paved road, my son
towed me to the paint shop, some three miles away
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At noon today I was done taping and covering the parts not going to be painted.
Kim was already mixing up the paint when I had to leave for work at about noon.
And yes, Kim is a man's name in Swedish.
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[Essex_29]

Oh yes 

[TFoch]

Wow    That looks awesome!  Nice work!!!

[sixball]

This is getting real! It looks very nice.

[sammons]

Hell ya, looking great! 👍   It's good to see nice black paint 🙂 
Your getting real close. That will get your energy up again.

[Essex_29]

Thank you all!
The inspiration returned when I got the bodywork done and
started painting all the parts. The body looks pretty nice too,
I'm pretty happy with how my bodywork turned out, even
in gloss black it's not horrible and that's a win.
I just did my 39th day in a row in the garage, so close to get
it ready for some dreal driving I just have to plow on.
Today I got the tail lights mounted. As I've probably mentioned
before, they are the original cowl lights with red bulbs.

[TFoch]

Nice and shiny!

[Essex_29]

I'm spending an unfathomable amount of time on the electricals.
For some reason I make the most work intense decisions.
Using the cowl lights as tail lights is one of those. To get the
functions of parking, brake and turn lights from one single
filament (21w bulb) the parking lights are simulated using 5
ohm resistors.
Front turn lights are also single filament and double as parking
lights.
Two flasher relays and four five prong relays, four resistors and
six diodes complete the system.
Hope it works.

[Essex_29]

It's a long time since I made most of the wiring, connected
the relays and fuse boxes and made it barely driveable. Now I
went through it all again to find out how I was thinking.
Last night I found the sketches I made on the computer at
the time and printed it out.

There's a lot of wiring going on.
I routed all the wiring going to the back of the car under the floor
instead of inside as I planned earlier. I think it's neater if I happen
to drive without a carpet some time.

[sammons]

Wiring can be a pain sometimes, especially if you started long ago and start into it again. Sure looking nice and neat. I hate when i see a great looking street rod until i see a dangled rats nest of "farmer to get by" sticking out under the dash.

[Essex_29]

Yes Sammons, a crow's nest of wiring hanging under the
dash looks awful. I have to admit to being guilty of letting that
happen before. This time I had decided to make the wires the
right length instead of "long enough".

Some non visible work done again, mounts for the front park/turn
lights and wiring for everything except the dash is done.
I mounted the headlights yesterday, wired and all.

I was at a car show today in a neighbouring city, took a few hours
off from the shop.

[Essex_29]

Piece by piece. The park/brake/turn signals have been tested
and they work and almost everything is wired except for the
warning lights, gauges and swiches that go in the center of
The dash.

I made a couple small hangers to go under the dash for a miniature
volt gauge and a dual usb socket. It's mainly for powering the
speedo that's still in the works and might be installed next winter.
And also maybe for charging a phone.

The dash centerpiece is still pretty much a blank. I'll drill holes
and mount fuel and temp gauges and also for a couple more switches

[TFoch]

Your finishing touches are looking great!  It won't be long now!

[sammons]

It's all coming together now. All those little things seem to take up some time but are quickly checked off the list. Lookin good 👍