INSANE IN THE MEMBRANE!!!!

So long story short.....I am moving very soon and I was going to sell my van for a shortbox v6 conversion van but after going to see it......I felt much better about my van. I think that it was just what I needed to remind myself that my van is in pretty good shape and that I have put a lot in to it.  

So longer story even shorter.....I've got just less than two weeks to do the body and paint but I am determined. I've been putting in some long days and I've made a bunch of progress. I have finished almost the whole right side and some of the van and have started the grille conversion.  Everything is going well, some things take longer than I want and some things don't take long enough but hey, I have no time to be picky right now. I never said I was a body man......just a crafty person.

I've got plenty of empty cans of rust converter and primer and it looks like I've fried my angle grinder from removing an inch of metal off of the nose to fit the grille.  I still plan to use the $50 paint job method using 'tremclad medium blue'. I am pretty excited about it all !!!

Things to do:

-Remove  windshield and visor to do the body work......pay $80 to have my new one proffesionally installed.

-grind bolts away to remove the rear bumper to do the body. I already got the front one off. These will be replaced with the chrome bumpers off of my '81.

-The obstacle with the grille conversion is that the wholes for the headlights do not line up with the holes on the body. The solution is to cut out the headlight holes on the body; cut the whole thing out in a section and align it and then attach it with a custom bracket; this will work.

-small sections of body.

Wish me luck and keep me in our vannin' prayers!!  Pictures to come!!

:)