1985 CHP #8337 - My First SSP

[GSPI]

Amazing work Sam! Great job!

[ssp5.0]

You are doing some fine work there Sam! Really impressed.
I looked at the tail light pics & the video and think the white painted buckets do look brighter. Keep it up!

Bruce

[Bri22NJ]

Looks amazing. Really nice and keep up the great work.

[mac88chp]

Keep up the good work. You'll be driving that '85 down to Ripon before you know it!

[Mustang Kid]

Thanks everyone

A couple more pics














Hopefully it will be going to the frame shop in a few weeks to fix the passenger rail damage and tweaked RH inner fender/radiator support.
Then I can start getting the engine bay prepped for paint

[Mustang Kid]

Why my car will be going to the frame shop.


Notice that someone had heated the frame rail to straighten it.




Needs brakes and some rust cleanup






Then I changed the wheels today so that I can get the Steel wheels powdercoated




Casper should go to the frame shop this week once another car of my dads is finished. Then when it comes back, it will be stripped to the metal and body work started

[Mustang Kid]

New video of paint removal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIjfX...ature=youtu.be

[Mustang Kid]

Dropped Casper off at the frame shop wednesday before last. Once it comes back I will try and pressure wash much more paint off.
I have new front brake pads for Casper and a carb rebuild kit will be bought.

Here are some more pics


I found a nicer Grote Light housing for the blue lense.





I got this for Christmas...


A new blue lense


The drivers side Grote Light housings before.




The Grote Lights after cleaning an polishing

[Mustang Kid]

Picked 8337 up from the frame shop yesterday
The shop owner said that the right front frame rail was pushed down and to the right. He also said that the frame rail was an inch or more from where the it was supposed to be But everything is straight once again. Just have to do some finish work on the inner fenders.
Some pics





I swapped wheels once again. The chrome ones I put on got swapped to my "new" 85 convertible. I put two more urethane wheels on. Once I get another, I will strip the urethane coating off and have the wheels re-hooped. They will be my second set of 85-6 steel wheels. One set will have correct General XP2000 tires and the other set will have normal driving tires.



Which is which?






And my "new" 85 convertible, my P71, and the 85 CHP behind the P71

[Mustang Kid]

Things have been going kinda slow on the SSP lately. Here is a little update for the thread anyway.
I have the interior dye for the plastics, so redying the interior will probably be next.
Need to get some more of the SEM gray paint for the rest of the trim, then all that will be finished.
The equipment is all cleaned up.
Side mirrors cleaned (not the housings).
Dash hull will be removed for cleaning and heater core replacement.
Gonna pull the motor and stuff off of the inner fenders and firewall.
Pressure wash entire car (try to strip most all the white and clean everything).
Remove doors, windshield, rear window, and side windows(in doors).
Sand ALL the paint off (not on the under side of the car or what is in the interior area though).
Straighten all the body panels to perfection (body work)
Prime everything.
Sand once again.
Final primer(if needed, then final sand).
Paint the roof and doors.
Mask the roof and paint all the black (I will even try to replicate the factory "dullness" on the trunk jams and the under hood area).
Sand and polish paint.
Re-install windows, detailed engine, wiring, and interior.
Install equipment and wiring.
Put body panels/trim back on.
Decals!
And finish minor details.

Hopefully the car will be in paint around the end of March.

I kinda got carried away with the update LOL