1968 Florida 1600 Restoration Project

[phreshkid]

I got sidetracked this weekend and bought another 73 tii.

This one has a lot of really neat parts on it, including a rebuilt 10:1 euro-spec numbers matching tii motor, 5-speed, LSD, suspension tech springs, i.e. swaybars, h4 lights, etc.

This will be a good car.







Plans are to bring her back and make her pretty.

[LJ851]

Heyyyy that's great news!

Did you reattach the guts to the housing via metal rivet or just bolt it all up to the body and let the screw keep it all together?

I have not replaced the rivet in the past mainly because i did not have access to a replacement so i removed as little of the original rivet as possible when disassembling the light. That way, although the assembly is not pinched together itself it is located and the body attachment screws pinch it. 100% functional.

[Mlarsen]

Looking good man! Haven't been on here in awhile last thing I was the crash. Glad to see you've moved on and doing some cool shit.

[phreshkid]

I've done this several times, you will succeed and it is a very nice solution.

Heyyyy that's great news!

Did you reattach the guts to the housing via metal rivet or just bolt it all up to the body and let the screw keep it all together?

[LJ851]

More progress. Euro Turn Signals go on tomorrow. I've decided to rip the guts out of a US turn signal and stuff it into a euro housing, so I can keep the correct wiring and not have to redesign the wheel like I did on my blue car. I think it will work out just fine.

I've done this several times, you will succeed and it is a very nice solution.

[325ix]

I really love that color.

[Kershaw]

Looks good.

[phreshkid]

More progress. Euro Turn Signals go on tomorrow. I've decided to rip the guts out of a US turn signal and stuff it into a euro housing, so I can keep the correct wiring and not have to redesign the wheel like I did on my blue car. I think it will work out just fine.


I didn't get much done today, but I did get some stuff done. Look, I'll even show you.

[TheChunknorris]

Very nice! Got a 76 '02 myself... but that set up so clean.

[dillon7]

i want to know more

I'm still wanting to know more.

On the other hand the BMW's are looking great.

[phreshkid]

Closer and closer with this one.

[phreshkid]

That's a rad photo. I always knew I looked good but damn, I didn't know I looked that good.

[Brad Sindoni]

that's a sick picture!

[ak-]

All we need is some vapes and we've pretty much made it familia.

[2mAn]

I ran the new fender without the US Side marker for a few months and every time I saw or heard from Simon Tuman, he'd promptly bring up the missing side marker. So as a solution to not punching him in the face every time I saw him, I just added it back into the new fender. This was the correct solution because now I won't go to jail for assault.

It couldve been remedied if you had shaved the over side when you had it painted, but who am I to give advice on the car. Its obviously coming together great and I still get ideas of throwing cash at you to give me one of your cars, better that than throwing fisticuffs