Mark call me after 18:00 @ 334-227-3004, I tried sending pics but kept locking up on me. I can tell you what is good alot easier than setting  here allday fooling with this computer.

Glen Henderson



Freedom is not Free

Letohatchee, AL

will do!

"God Bless Texas"location: Houston,TX

 True love... my 57 Fairlane comes out of the garage where its been kept the entire 20 or so years I've had it...

 and Daniel's first car, the 63 Monterey, goes in!  The better to jack it up as high as possible so we can get under it and tear into the rust, undercoating and whatever else is on the dirty side of the car.  Neighbor across the street has loaned me his tent cover... and it almost covers the Ford...

more to come!

PS: very generous forum member here has reached out to us and offered some parts for Daniel's car... more specific thanks to come!

Mark

"God Bless Texas"location: Houston,TX

Daniel with scraper and wire brush in hand attaching the rusty Merc...

found so far while under the Merc:

-yellow jacket nest (3 and counting)

-Red dirt (!)

-live wasp

-oh yeah, RUST!

the Mrs and I are going out tomorrow night to work on Christmas shopping; Daniel better spend the better part of tomorrow night under the Merc, wearing goggles and scraping rust and undercoating...

all he wants for Christmas is a gold plated Mercury head key blank!

Mark

"God Bless Texas"location: Houston,TX

Looks like he's doing a good job. He'll always remember working on that first car. I learned several lessons working on my first ride . . . mostly how not to do stuff.

Germantown, (Memphis) TN

http://www.eastwood.com/internal-frame-coating-w-spray-nozzle.html?SRCCODE=1EM0840&em=r57@satx.rr.com&utm_source=bm23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Image+-+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eastwood.com%2Finternal-frame-coating-w-spray-nozzle.html%3FSRCCODE%3D1EM0840%26em%3D%25%25email%25%25&utm_content=SEMA+2011+was+awesome%21+Check+out+our+post-show+video%21%21%21&utm_campaign=1EM0840+11%2F9%2F2011+SEMA2011+%2B+6+products 

Saw this and thought of you and you son.

Gary Ryan San Antonio.TX.

yep, that product is on our list... just as soon as we get the outer frame surfaces cleaned up and prepped with something like POR.

thanks for thinking of us!

Mark

"God Bless Texas"location: Houston,TX

big plans for Thanksgiving week... going to check out two possible parts cars (63 Galaxies) at a nearby junk yard; finishing up our brake rebuild; hopefully getting the frame clean-up finished and ready for rust treatment...

...for those kindly interested in our little project, I hope to have some interesting pictures to share, too.

Enjoy the holiday this week; let's be thankful for all we have!

Mark and Daniel

"God Bless Texas"location: Houston,TX

spent today with a rented air compressor cleaning out the inside of son's frame rails; felt like I was back on the farm on a tractor... covered with dust and dirt from head to toe! used a piece of busted emergency brake cable with a ratty end to jam inside the frame, working it back and forth, loosening up the rust and dirt inside the rails, then blowing it out and also using a vacuum.  Not pretty and not as thorough as I would have liked but it will have to do.

Daniel finished getting the brakes back together; only had to replace one wheel cylinder and kits for the other ones. Now to re-fill with brake fluid and bleed.

expecting the Eastwood inside-frame rust treatment and the KBS external rust treatment by Saturday... then the frame should start looking prettier!

also, got an early birthday present this afternoon... the kids got me a shop vac!

oh yeah, the weather here in Houston was beautiful today... sunny and in the high 60's-low 70's... same for the big day tomorrow as well... trying not to brag, but hey, I'm a Texan... so whatta ya expect!

Happy Thanksgiving to all who are following our little adventure from the Smith's!

"God Bless Texas"location: Houston,TX

well, we got some more done over the week... Daniel now has a case of chicken pox! so he's off the project for a couple of days while he recovers.  Heck of a thing for a teenager to come down with but he's a trooper!

brake work almost done...

 a real "customizer" at heart, Daniel adds a trunk light to the Merc!

 Christmas comes early for Daniel c/o our newest Y block friend from 'BAMA; thanks Glen!

 we drop the rear bumper to get at more rust...

 first application of the KBS rust product; More of this step to come as we get after the entire frame... more pics of that to come.

"God Bless Texas"location: Houston,TX