1963 Thunderbird Restoration Part 3 - Painting the Hood & Trunk Lid
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- Опубликовано: 19 мар 2023
- In todays episode, I restore the hood and trunk lid and face absolutely no issues while doing do (that's a lie I faced many issues)!
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Cool project. The bullet nosed birds are underappreciated.
Yes for sure! The only good thing is that it makes these cars cheap to acquire!
Love your work an eye for detail beautiful Ford really enjoying all your videos thank you
Thank you sir, really appreciate the comment!
Just picked up a 63 tbird. Really enjoying this series. Can't wait for the next episode.
That's awesome man, congrats on the new car! Thanks for the comment sir and if everything goes to plan, a new episode should be coming out in about 2 weeks!
Hello. Great job on those parts. Your paint job turned out fantastic. Thanks for posting this.
George B
Thanks for the comment sir, I am glad you enjoyed the video!
I am working on my 64' tbird right now, Your videos give me hope I will be able to handle this by myself as well. I've learned a lot. Thank you!
That’s awesome man! I wish you the best on your project!
Impressive.
Respect for So much patience.
Thank you sir, yes it takes ton of patience to restore these old cars, especially when you run into problems you weren’t expecting!
Nice work on the hood and trunk and skirts. Nice color also.
Thank you sir!
You're doing a great job.
Thank you sir!
good to have you back!
Excellent work, and yes, it takes much longer than you estimate!
Thanks for sharing your work, and I'm going to give the Citrus Strip a try. 😎
Thanks for the comment! Yeah the Citristrip actually worked much better than I expected, I hope it works good for you too!
the best from holland stay save and keep going like this
Thank you sir!
That hood came out looking fantastic! This was an excellent video man, thanks so much for taking us with you on this journey. I'm at the "stripped all the trim and removed all the doors, panels, etc" phase on my 62 convertible. I'm a noob so I'm paying very close attention to your video series on your bird.
Thanks man! That is quite a project, I’ve seen some photos of the inner workings of the convertibles and there’s a lot that goes into making that system work! I am glad to be a resource for your restoration and wish you the best!
respect sir the best from holland
Thank you sir!
Really nice work on both the car and the vids - and you are going to school as well - excellent. The car is looking amazing. No floorboard problems? I am slowly hacking my way through that on my ‘65 Fastback and can’t wait to get in to this fun!
Thank you sir! The floorboards are rock solid on my 63 Thunderbird, but my 64 has some pin holes on the passenger floorboard and the trunk pan is swiss cheese, so that car will definitely need some help there. The 65 fastback sounds like an awesome project, I wish you the best on it! My dad just recently finished his 68 coupe and it is super fun to drive!
Very cool video
Thank you sir!
I recently decided to work on my 1963 left in the woods to rot since the early 90s. I live in Arkansas, I’m new to this era Ford. I’ve owned many Fords but typically trucks and suvs. 1990-2004.
I am having an issue with popping the hood. The pass side seems ready to lift but the driver is stuck down. Do you have any ideas?
Sounds like a fun project! There are two latch systems that hold the hood down. One is referred to as the safety latch which is located in the center right underneath the hood. This one functions like a standard latch like you would find on almost all Ford’s. The second latch system is the primary latch system which contains plungers and latches on both the passenger and driver side. This is the one likely giving you issues. To activate this latch system, there should be a lever kind of hidden in the center of the grill. Pull on this lever and it will release both the passenger and driver side.
If you skip to 14:20 in this video, you can see the safety latch in the center of the hood and both of the hood latch plungers being removed. You can also watch part 3 of my series, ruclips.net/video/vEnz47ZRu-0/видео.html and skip to 2:15 in that video. There I remove the primary latch system, so you can see the hidden lever I am talking about.
Good luck with your project and hopefully you can get the hood popped!
I’m glad you dropped the swearing from this video. I almost didn’t watch this one but was pleasantly surprised to find its more “friendly” to those who don’t care for foul language. Nice work on the hoods. Looking forward to seeing the rest come together. Subbing to follow along. 👍🏼
Thanks for the comment sir and thanks for subscribing! A few months ago I went back and rewatched my older videos and decided that I did not care for the foul language. Thankfully I also got a few comments that also stated that they did not care for that language, so I am happy to say that all future videos, like this one, will not feature such language 👍🏻
@@AngellsGarage Thanks for that, I watch these type of videos with my grandkids as we are working on our own truck restorations. Appreciate the confirmation that we are safe to roll your videos with family present. Rock on man!!!
I was in the Navy so as far as I'm concerned you can swear all you want to and I won't even notice. @@troysgarage
where do you get all of your parts?
Thanks for the comments! I am very fortunate and actually live very close to a store that specializes in selling Thunderbird parts. The store is Concours Parts and Accessories, concoursparts.com/ . I have also heard a lot of good things about a store called The Birds Nest. Both of these stores carry a TON of parts for these cars, which is great because I have a lot of parts on my car are quite trashed lol
@@AngellsGarage Thank you so much! I also have a 1963 Thunderbird, and I need to take the engine out of it and rebuild said engine.
Part 4 🤔
You have good timing sir! Part 4 is going to be released tomorrow morning
think bought that same emblem from that same guy. at a rip off price must say
Oh man, isn't it ridiculous how much these parts cost and in the end they don't even fit correctly? Now I understand why so many guys stick to OEM parts whenever possible!
The best paint strip I've ever seen Is Aircraft paint stripper from advance...
I have seen people try this stripper with great results, I will be giving it a try soon once I run out of my other strippers!
There is a junkyard out in california by you where a guy has over fifty of them thunderchickens.... I can potentially get you his number if you want it.
Oh man that would be awesome, if that is possible I would be very happy! Finding parts for these old birds can sometimes be tricky