progress on my 54 Hornet

Chris Smith

Gotta have over a hundred hours of paint removal, filling, priming, block sanding and repeat priming, block sanding, repeat priming, block sanding, priming yet again and sanding. I still have the front fenders, driver door,deck lid, rear skirts, and continental kit sheet metal left to do. I love the smell of fresh 2k primer in the morning, it smells like victory.

RL Chilton

Chris-

Looks fanastic! Keep up the great work. 100 hours? Looks like you've made great progress in that amount of time! Let me know when you get up to the 2500-hour mark and your car and my car can swap war stories. LOL! What color is she gonna be?

commodorecollector

Very nice Chris! Looking forward to see her come back together

Browniepetersen

Nice Chris, I am still in the Make it stop, make it run stage with my 54. You are now down to the fun part....

Chris Smith

Thanks for the encouragment, I am going to paint it black with a Harley davidson shade of black cherry top,rear quarters behind the pork chops and Continental wheel surround. have already painted the interior dash, door and window garnish a rolls royce brown that comes close to the original color. The upholstery is going to be as close to the stock light and dark brown fabric as possible and I will have to save up for that. I have factory power steering and brakes, Twin H and Hydramatic for it. I am picking up my engine block up from Costa Mesa R&D on monday and will take a break on the body work to assemble that. It should be a strong running engine when completed, 60 over 308 with a lot of Maas's goodies, Dany Spring cut relief and half inch head bolts, 7x size valves and full length clifford header.

Chris Smith

Here is what 8 solid months of dedication has brought me so far. I am close to start up.  As part of the restoration I have added factory power steering and brakes along with back up lights and a day/night inside mirror. These Items add to a car that had a nice list of factory options already including the Continental spare.  

Chris Smith

Only two of several photos worked. Heres more.

Chris Smith

Chris Smith

Browniepetersen

WOW Chris, that does look good. You have done a great job with it.

onerare39

That's really nice, and I love the continental kit.

Can't wait to see it.

John Forkner

Chris Smith

Thanks guys, I have a bunch of trim to install still, so I hope that goes well.

frank spring

Great work. Thanks for sharing.

5433HET

Looks Great!