64 LeMans

[64 kiwi boni]

5 hours ago, Andy H said:

Probably won't get much done this weekend because we're going to Bakersfield for street rod Nationals tomorrow morning but maybe Sunday

Don’t forget we love pictures around her Andy 👍

[Andy H]

Sanded the hood with 400 wet next I need to do some paint touch up in a few places and after that it's time to try the patina stuff, going to be interesting.

The hood actually looked worse than what you can see in the picture, since I'm not painting the car right now this will have to do.

[Andy H]

A couple of cars from this mornings cars and coffee and from last weekend in Bakersfield, medel had a half of a Pontiac V8, 4 1/2" stroke, if you look close on one of the pictures you will see some chrome small cover plates they are there because he had to make room for the rods/ long stroke.

[64 kiwi boni]

Why would you do that to a v8 ?

[Andy H]

18 minutes ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

Why would you do that to a v8 ?

😄 Came this way from Pontiac 

https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/pontiacs-half-a-v8-the-1961-63-tempest-trophy-4/

[64 kiwi boni]

22 minutes ago, Andy H said:

😄 Came this way from Pontiac 

https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/pontiacs-half-a-v8-the-1961-63-tempest-trophy-4/

Wow ! I justA  learnt something 👍👍👍👍 

it reminds me of the valiant slant motors ! 

[Andy H]

27 minutes ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

Wow ! I justA  learnt something 👍👍👍👍 

it reminds me of the valiant slant motors ! 

Yeah they probably felt that they needed to compete in that class of cars and came up with this as a cheap way of doing it. I had heard of it but didn't know much of it either. Definitely different.

This one sounded really good, supposedly about 400hp , the guy is a hobby machinists and had a lot of neat stuff on the car.

[Andy H]

So I got the hood and fenders wet sanded to remove most of the surface rust and after that I put on some of this patina stuff to keep it from rusting again.

Fenders turned out pretty good but th the hood needs to be redone.

[B52bombardier1]

No matter how you decide to finish this, it looks good to me!

Rick

[Andy H]

33 minutes ago, B52bombardier1 said:

No matter how you decide to finish this, it looks good to me!

Rick

Thank you.

Would have preferred to paint it but that's not in the book's right now so we will try to make the best of what's there.