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Old 06-26-2012, 08:19 PM   #55
thebanjoman
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Default Re: 1929 Ford Coupe - Rusty to Solid

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Originally Posted by Steve Plucker View Post
What you are doing and have is a tallent that probably 99% of us on this fourm could not do ourselves without screwing something up.
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After some feeble attempts at doing it myself I quickly realized that I don't have the patience for sheetmetal and just burned a bunch of holes. 11ga or greater is more my speed. Its not like riding a bike. you do forget and if you don't exercise the 'skill' you lose it.
Also with the work to be done on the subrails it could have gone wrong very fast and folded like a house of cards.

If the car was going to get finished I needed help to get it done. These days I can only get a few hours a week to devote to it and often when I finish my 120 mile commute each day I'm far too spent to head for the shop.

Tom is several hundred miles from me and having him post progress pictures helps me see the work he is doing and to know that its in capable hands and progressing is a load off my mind. With all the stress of the last year being out of work for a while, moving my father-in-law to a nursing facility, we didn't need another worry wondering if we made the right choice in sending it to Tom.
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