Restoration of my families grocery getter

Can not stand chaos, when it comes to parts. Needed to find the hardware for the fenders and liners. Think i found them, now which is which and were do they go. One box down, another to go.

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Nice, better than the baggies with masking tape labels I use.
They where bagged, but when all the parts were retrieved from the shop where the car was. It was a complete mess. Started as finding the hdw for the tailgate door pivot. Got lucky and found it, then the easter egg hunt gor the front fender and wheel housing hardware. Think i found it. Once this all sorted, problem is there was an immense amount in bags labeled Misc Hardware, a$$holes.
 
This weeks away project, vinegar brin solution to knock the rust down on the jumble of hardwre. Also madea hardware spread sheet from the assembly manual, to figure out what i've got and missing. Wire brush and off the rattle can paint shop. Net batch is soaking, hopfully a field trip to find a Wahon and field notes as to nuts and bolts, a$$hole shop.

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Cleaned up the tailgate latch handle of the sand blast dust. Couldnt remember, how the door and gate lock out worked. Either function is disarmed when the glass is up. The top link at about three O'clock acts as a plunger locking both functions out until the window is retracted. Threw on a big zip to mimic the window in the down position enableing either door or tailgate to work.

Forgot how large of a swing the door is.

Next is finding the glass channels, cleaning the runs and motor assy. Then testing the motor and glass assy.

Also reminded the inside of the door was never finished......

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Getting prepped for the front clip. Harware continues. Made a paint jig, punched holes for the heads to fit through to touch the threads with sime primer and black

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Part two the day, undercoated the inside of the wheel housings. Now for the peskie nuts and bolts.

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Small steps, hood hinges, lower grill panel and quarter window trim out to a shop. For paint matching and paint. Hopfully they can nail the match, recieved no information from the original shop. Enough words pics. Mounted the rear powder coated bumper brackets.

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Picked up the remaining parts from the painter today. Hopfully this is what is needed to complete the body. Will know in the spring, need to get back cleaning the hardware and getting organized

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That color is stunning when new, right! Very nice!
Hopefully the spray outs and the color applied will match. Not to belittle a point. Where the car was they painted it, and gave no record of paint mix. I have one now.
 
Plymouth T7 Saddle Bronze Metallic / Iradescent, depending on what paint manufacture chip sheet you look at.
 
Just recieved this today, from MMC Detroit. Their Standard Hardware Guide. It has the promise to break down what the hardware looks like and its place on the Car. Its placement for most locations will hopefully be found in Faxons reprint of the 69-70 Body Assembly Manual. Can not stress proper bagging/ tagging or your method of choice to organize.

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It's only nuts and bolts and I like it. Made another sojourn up to Wisconsin, to harvest more sample hardware. Figured out how to do it. Pre-printed paper labels, tapped the hardware to the label. Each has a locator number on it and a corresponding number on the applicable assembly drawing. Now I know what goes where. Wire brush them off for the control/ known samples and a p-touch flag. Now i can get down to sorting them into bins for reassembly and getting the correct ones painted

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