Joel,  you are kidding about the inner fender panels right???

By the way, I have a set of used mudbuckets if your interested.  The repro's are plastic and do not fit well at all.

I have about 3 of the gear boxes with pitman arm attached if I had known you needed one.  Of course the shipping might have been a bit much.  Are you running the 4 lug suspension or has it been changed.  I also have a bunch of front suspension pieces, including a complete 5 lug setup.

Norm

The stock inner panels are solid behind the shock towers.  It appears the inner fender panels you have are made or modified for fender well headers.  It was quite common back in the day to cut a hole in the panel for the fender well headers to exit.

If the joint is bad on a 63-67 pitman arm, you need to replace the arm. 

I only have one set of mudbuckets they are hard to find without any holes.  I will need to take a picture and post it for you.

Norm

Joel, I envy you that you are doing your engine compartment (just the way I plan to do mine!!!) I have done my rad support front and all that you'll do, and it looks great, so will yours, my rattle cans of semi-gloss come from local equivalent of Canadian Tire which we do not have down here eh? 

I always apologize when I open the hood that I have not yet painted the engine compartment, but you will have no reason to apologize to anyone!

Dave

Started tearing into the car again...





Finished painting the front of the rad support and front subframe.



Then on to the inside floor pans. Started prepping...



then primed...



and painted.





On to the underside.  Needs alot more work there.
I pulled the tank which is quite beat up but after dropping it there was a refurbished sticker by a local rad/tank shop. 
I was surprised, so I checked inside and it's been cleaned and coated... Don't quite get why someone would spend money to refurbish a tank in this shape...



Here's the ol mighty 8.2 with 3.08 posi. 
Still uncertain if it's going to stay for now or if I'll narrow my rebuilt 8.5 with 3.73's and posi...





Lots of work to go...

I like what you are doing with your car.

Not really an update but a cool story to add...

Going back earlier this year in January I was looking at my GM data sheet and wondered about the dealership my car was sold through when new, Dickson Motors Ltd of Winnipeg.

So I googled the dealer's name and a few hits came up and one was for an ebay auction for some old manitoba dealer badges and one of them was a Dickson Motors badge with a few other winnipeg dealer badges. The auction had past back in Oct '08 so this was months after and I couldn't believe it. So I wondered if the guy had sold them or not... I decided to contact him through ebay to see if by any chance he still had the dealer badges. I received a reply a while later saying no one bought them through ebay but they were misplaced and he'd have to find them. I was excited but also not sure if they'd surface, the guy runs an antiques store in Virden MB so he said he has lots of stuff to go through.

So I waited a month or so and no word, so I sent him an email asking if they turned up... nope.
So I asked if I could send him an email now and then to see if they surfaced and he said that's fine. So every month that I didn't here back from him I'd send a reminder email asking if he found them. Months went on and I kept sending emails.

Finally a couple weeks ago I received a reply, "Found Them!" Man I was excited, by then I was thinking he'd sold them a while back and not remembered. So he said he delivers items to Wpg every few weeks to save shipping costs for ebay buyers so I waited another few weeks.  Finally they arrived today.

It's in decent shape, there's not too many pits and the chrome is decent just need to repair the studs on the back. I'm going to place it on my trunk lid, it's gonna look really good once I put all the trim back on the car.

I didn't know your car was from Winnipeg motor products... There was one of those badges at the swap meet earlier this year.... I also know another guy who should still have one, I'll send you his contact info. If he doesn't we could work something out if you want the one I have.

I've never heard of Century, I'm not sure what brand they sold?

Yeah, the Dickson one is decent, I think I'm just gonna repair the studs and leave it as-is.

What a great story Joel. I never thought about looking for dealer emblems but thats a great idea. Mine is from Malis Motors Ltd in Selkirk. Wonder if its still there.

It's nice to see pictures before & after, Keep up the good work Joel

Last week I finally got the front sump oil pan swap finished.
I ended up using an oil pan gasket set for a pre '74 sbc and the front seal fit really nice.

I've wire wheeled the whole underside of the car now and have a few rust repairs to do before paint. 
It's starting to look much better under there now.

How did it turn out with the wire wheel ?  I have to do the same to mine in the spring. Not sure what would work best, wire wheel or flaper wheel . I still have some undercoating to remove some how.  Are you planning on painting or using something like Lizzard skin or a bed liner coating ?

I wired wheeled one a while back and was very happy with how it turned out. However, the car was pretty much rust free to start and that sure helps.