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We bought the car in pretty sad shape on
4/14/02. It was an '85 SE with a 2.8L We had the mechanicals
debugged while we were waiting for the Finale body kit from
V8 Archie and the
leather
upholstery from MrMike. We received
the body kit from Archie and began pulling the '85 body parts
from the donor on 7/22/02. The install of the kit took less than 60 days to complete, but it took a lot of coordination and planning. It took 1 day short of 5 months from the time we bought the donor car to calling it "done". If a thing like this can ever be called really done. :) |
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Total Work time on the car, I estimate, was around 1200 hours, including the mechanical repairs. Somebody worked on it every day and most of the time there was two of us, many times 3 or 4. It was a family project from the start. |
| My farm hand worked on it alot as well. He's a master welder and heavy metal fabricator. That is worth a lot when you have to redesign rear body mounts (due to the tail lights), fabricate brackets, and repair rusted frame areas. I can't count the number of nights we all came in after 11:00 pm covered in micro and fiberglass dust from sanding. None of us had any fingerprints left by the time the car went in for paint. |
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The paint is a custom mix that is very close to the 2000 Mazda copper that we tinted to try to match the Metallic Beryllium Copper of the Saleen S7. It's a Dupont Chroma Basecoat/Clearcoat system. The interior was painted with Sherwin Williams Ultra Interior with a touch up gun and airbrush. |
