My Wifes project - 64 Parisienne Safari 327

Urban_suburban · Poncho Master!

My Wifes project - 64 Parisienne Safari 327

Urban_suburban · Poncho Master!

Well yesterday I was back in the shop for the first time in a while. Sadly we were delayed with my Grandfather falling ill this year and his passing. Last eve we finally got to putting on some fenders that were a bit of work to obtain. here are some photos as of lately

hopefully next we will start on the dented quarter and replacing the tailgate.

long stroke · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Allison and Mike, excellent work and looking forward to further updates. Mike, who is the gent doing the work on your 64, i don't think his name was ever mentioned. Is the 72 Chev his car and is there a build thread planned for the 72 as well. Continued good luck with the work and cheers. George

Urban_suburban · Poncho Master!

The fellow helping me is my dad Wayne. He owned the 72 and the green 64 rag. Can't remember his user name at the moment lol

bradkerbick · Veteran Member

I have only been a member for a few weeks, so I went from page one to the end of this post. I am very impressed! The colour, PERFECT! Are you a welder by trade? Body man? Or just damn talented? Thanks for taking the time to post all those pictures, and doing updates. I am learning lots from reading through this. Did I mention the color is PERFECT! and congrats on the wife...... it must really help having her enjoy the hobby and process.
Dale

Urban_suburban · Poncho Master!

Thanks. I am so pleased that my wife is into the hobby with me. It defiantly helps. I am not a welder or body man by trade. Mostly learning as I go with this one. That fender is my first attempt at but welding. Going to see if I can make it happen as nice on the rear quarter next. Thanks for taking the time to read my posts. I hope to have more soon

rabbit64cs · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Real nice work on the butt weld of the fender !

Not a beginner task !

Pontiacanada · A Poncho Legend!

Lookin' good Mike!

dcneric · Poncho Master!

Awesome progress. Congrats on the excellent work.

Urban_suburban · Poncho Master!

Parts delivery! one freshly primed fender delivered in style...

Urban_suburban · Poncho Master!

So Wayne and I decide we were going to take the rear bumper off today and look at the tail gate hinges... we got carried away and this happened... For a first attempt for me I am pleased so far.

Shane 3662 · Veteran Member

Fantastic progress. Btw what is the blue you are painting it again?

Urban_suburban · Poncho Master!

Blue raspberry metallic base clear is what we decided with an ermine white top

Urban_suburban · Poncho Master!

So I will have to get an update soon. Doesn't look like we have done much to the car but picking away at it and have been very busy finalizing interior order. SMS says a year for door panels so we want to get on that. And I have to prepare to start stripping and sending material to Arizona to be patterned. We are almost in the home street he of metal work now soon for body work and paint. It's getting a little exciting as we see new material samples for the interior.

-- Edited by Urban_suburban on Tuesday 22nd of November 2016 12:18:50 PM

Urban_suburban · Poncho Master!

Some progress once again... our son is in shop class this semester and decided to take on the task of blasting and (with some help ) get his moms new tire and rim package done for her

He took the rims and blasted them on his lunches. We painted the back and inside black and primed the face today to prepare for body colour paint

-- Edited by Urban_suburban on Tuesday 22nd of November 2016 12:19:50 PM

Urban_suburban · Poncho Master!

Turns out with a little supervision and help with set up I can paint

-- Edited by Urban_suburban on Tuesday 22nd of November 2016 12:20:36 PM

Urban_suburban · Poncho Master!

Just secured this addition to the wagon build. just in time as we were getting close to starting some interior cargo area work and just starting to finalize our interior order

-- Edited by Urban_suburban on Tuesday 22nd of November 2016 12:21:17 PM

Cheviac · Guru

Nice find, and surprising condition from a car with no glass.

Urban_suburban · Poncho Master!

So finally got to get into some more tedious welding and beginning to buttoning up the metal work. Short of the left rear quarter we are on the home stretch of metal work then into body work.

Urban_suburban · Poncho Master!

Got the tires mounted today. Here is one with the hubcap on it.

Pontiacanada · A Poncho Legend!

Urban_suburban wrote:
Got the tires mounted today. Here is one with the hubcap on it.

Nice! Out of curiosity, where did you get the 14" white walls?

Urban_suburban · Poncho Master!

That means we are on the right track. We didn't want it obvious we bumped up the tire and rim size .The tires are 215/70R15 The tires and rims came off an 1986 Caprice. I am not sure about 14's but we just purchased some fire stones for our van that had whitewalls. We didn't put them out but they had them. Also bought some hancooks earlier this year that had some as well. Bought them through a local fellow we know small shop.

-- Edited by Urban_suburban on Friday 9th of December 2016 02:42:15 PM

Pontiacanada · A Poncho Legend!

Urban_suburban wrote:
That means we are on the right track. We didn't want it obvious we bumped up the tire and rim size .The tires are 215/70R15 The tires and rims came off an 1986 Caprice.

Sneaky. biggrin

hawkeye5766 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Spiffy! Keep up the good work and posts.

Magician40 · Poncho Master!

Great work, the wheel combination is perfect. I had to purchase some whitewalls this summer, 2 for the front of my 67 Toronado, and 2 for the back of the 64 CS. I got Hankook tires, they are really nice.
Brian