[SD455DJ]

Originally Posted by Verdoro 68

My impatience got the best of me. We're expecting the seats back from upholstery this week, and my son is anxious to get it back out on the road. Rather than go through the rigmarole of getting an estimate to fix the wheels, I fixed them myself.

The damage looked worse than it was, but still took most of the weekend to fix. Three of the four just needed some sanding and touch up. The fourth was a little more intensive and needed some epoxy repair, so I ended up refinishing the whole wheel. Don't tell anyone, but it actually came out better than the first time. Got the wheels mounted on the car today and they look pretty good. I know the tire shop is getting off easy, but I'm still going to make a few calls tomorrow.

Your Ventura reminds me of the 455HO "What if" that Royal made up on a '71.5 Ventura Sprint with 15x7 Honeycombs and F60-16 Goodyear Polyglas's. It's looking really sharp!

Dennis

[Verdoro 68]

Originally Posted by SD455DJ

Your Ventura reminds me of the 455HO "What if" that Royal made up on a '71.5 Ventura Sprint with 15x7 Honeycombs and F60-16 Goodyear Polyglas's. It's looking really sharp!

Dennis

That's cool, I don't know that I've seen that before. I like to pull from the factory parts bin to make stuff that didn't exist, but maybe should have. I suspect the Honeycombs were never offered because the Ventura was an economy car, but they look good. We've been talking about either putting the green '74 GTO stripes on it or reinstalling the side moldings. I'm for the former, Cole is for the latter.

We got the back bumper on and have completed our to do list for the drive to Arizona. The color match on the filler looks worse in the pic than it does in real life. The carb needs a little more love and it needs a wheel alignment the big work is done. Presuming we can get some seats to sit on, I think we're about as ready as we're going to be.

While we're waiting on seats and mucking with bumpers, his buddies are in full on thrash mode trying to get engines in their cars for trip down.