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Thats really cool Justa!

Bro, she looks awesome!!!

I'm with Frosty bro. If I was rebuilding my engine tomorrow, I'd be reaching out to Butler.

Justa wait Last Indian, Tesla will make a stump grinder before long brother! Justa plug it into your electric truck to charge it.

Welcome, do you have a Pontiac or justa like looking? Either way you've come to the right place.

Yeah bro, it justa won't flatten out and stay flat. I'll try the new hinges tomorrow and see what happens.

Damn your bad luck bro!

Justa remember Last Indian, we love pics around here. That includes trauma and ER pics!

Your 100% right Justa, the hood to cowl fit does look good. I hadn't thought about that. As far as adding a shim to raise the front, I have a 1/8" shim at the back corners of the fender to cowl. No shims at the 2 bolts going from the middle of the fender to the inner fender and 3 1/8" thick fender washers at the radiator support to raise the front. For the press set up its exactly the same except I switched to a short 2x4 instead of the long one. The one I used this time is about 18" long. I have those new or rather rebuilt hinges I justa bought but I have not installed them yet. I figured that without hinges the hood should lay flat. Am I wrong? Do the hinges actually pull down? Excuse the dirt and dust I've been doing a lot of sanding on her.

Well I've got almost both sides of the GP in skim coat and sanded flat. Decided to work on the hood some more. Got the truck all set up to use as a press again and pressed the hood down 3/8". Let the weight sit on the hood for about 5min. When I released the with the hood sprang back up. Maybe 1/16th of an inch difference but that's arguable. My son and I set the hood back on the car anyways justa to look at it and see if maybe we could see any change. Nope, none. When taking the hood back off I noticed what looks like rub marks on the fresh epoxy primer (first 3 pics). So I sprayed the underside of the hood with black paint in that area, yeah I know flat black primer and gloss black marker paint. It's what I had handy. In the last picture you can see paint transfer from the hood to that part of the cowl or upper firewall or whatever the proper name for that spot on the car is. Also, after seeing these marks I check the driver's side, yup its rubbing on both sides. So, my thoughts are to tap it lip down and see if the back of the hood goes down any. If the hood is still warped I may justa need to locate another one as this one pops back up every time I flex it down.

I actually justa picked up a bottle yesterday!

Glad yall enjoyed your trip bro. Thanks for all the pictures. Have a safe trip home.

Welcome Spike! Great lookin GP man!

Beautiful bro!

Beautiful ride Jeff. Welcome bro

Looks great Last Indian.

Great goat! Love that color!

Damn your luck here lately bro. Justa know yall are in our prayers brother. Glad everybody made it through whole.

Welcome! Great pics

Hey bro, my 63 was set up the same. No kickdown installed. I used a Lokar kit. I believe this is the kit and part number for the one I used. Hope it helps. For some reason it won't let me post the link Fitzy, I got mine from Summit Racing Lokar Hi-Tech Kickdown Kits KD-2400HT. Part number: LOK-KD2400HT

Glad I could help bro. I think most of the cars that had floor mounted gas peddles had the rod style linkage. At least all that I've seen. I've enjoyed watching your build man, keep up the good work.

Not sure if this will help you or not Andy. But when I switched to my Edelbrock carb I couldn't use the linkage I had. So I switched to a throttle cable. The first two pics are the bracket I made to use before painting it. When I added the kick down cable I switched to this bracket (pic 3&4). Lokar also sells a bracket. Thats where I got the idea for the 2nd bracket. I just couldn't justify spending $100 on that little bracket. Hope it helps bro.

Got the new (to me) hinges today. It'll be a couple of days before I can play with her though. Gotta get the Delta prepped for paint this weekend.

Yes! Looks good bud. I really like those bridge plates. Thier justa cool!

Lookin good Andy