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1 Our 1966 Ford Fairlane 390 tri-power	2 "Very nice :D" View Comments...
3	4 BadHenry our 1966 Ford Fairlane 390 Tri-power
5 391 heavy duty truck block	6 Block after machine work and studs installed
7	8 gapping piston rings
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13 sand blasted engine compartment	14
15 primered	16
17 old interior	18 rust in floor pan
19	20 getting read to put the new floor pans in
21 welding in new floor pans	22 Seats from a donor Fairlane
23 Seats from a donor Fairlane	24 new upholstery Bill's first try at it
25 New carpet	26
27 After Bill upholstered the seat	28 My first body work the front fender. Which took me forever since I was just learning.
29 carb spacer Bill made since he could not find any for the tri-power. Bill machined them from block of aluminum	30 New fiberglass hook
31 engine with carb spacers installed	32 ready to install disk brakes
33 Wilwood disk brakes installed	34 new craiger wheels
35 Bill rebuilt the C6 transmission	36 Custom built Coan 4000 stall speed converter
37 Moser custom axles and Detroit locker	38 setting up the rear end gears.
39	40 New stronger drive shaft
41 New front suspension	42 Rear spring relocation kit
43 New rear springs	44 Gearvender 6 speed overdrive unit
45 another spot on the fender.	46 I made this panel
47 Electric exhaust cutouts	48 Electric exhaust cutouts installed
49 Sand blasting parts so we can powder coat them	50 Did our own powder coating
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53 Had Weldcraft add 2 inches to the rear 8 inch Craiger wheels	54 powder coated inside of 8 inch craiger wheel we had widened 2 inches.
55 I came home from class and my wife just about died when she saw the quarter panel was cut off.	56 quarter panel is just taped so I could see that it all fit quarter panel came from Auto Krafters.
57	58 Door
59 door	60
61 door	62
63 I wanted more room for bigger slicks so added to the wheel well. I cut wheel tub and welded a 1 1/2 inch strip of sheet metal to it. The hinge area still looks stock.	64 made the wheel tub wider
65	66 wheel tub
67 This side quarter panel I did at home.	68 I cut out anything that was bad and replaced it with sheet metal.
69	70 had to hand make some of the replacement parts
71	72 welding on the new quarter panel
73 Looks like it did from the factory.	74 area that was bad that I cut out
75 Piece I cut out and piece I made to replace it.	76
77	78 areas I had to fix
79	80 The other front fender the piece I cut out and after I had welded it.
81 This rocker panel was a mess and had been filled with bondo.	82 pulled out the rocker panel so it was nice and straight
83	84 My daughter had the "I built mine did you?" made for me. I can say I did all the work on the car with my own hands except for the machine work on the block and rechroming the bumpers.
85 Every Saturday morning we loaded the Fairlane up on the trailer to take it to Lansing Community College for their body shop and paint lab. The coldest morning was 7 degrees with a wind chill that took it down to 16 below 0. The car was wenched up on the trailer.	86 The engine I built is a 391 heavy duty truck block (stronger block) bored out .120 over stock 391 block. I end up with 413 CI I am running a tri-power that I purchased for $175 (in 1972).
87 I spent hour and hours block sanding.	88
89 more block sanding	90 more block sanding
91 more block sanding	92 Me spraying on the epoxy primer
93 After the base coat	94 me spraying the clear on
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103	104 Here she is in red oxide primer at the drag strip last year.
105	106 Sept 12th Third place at Gilmore Car Museum at the Muscle car show our class was 1965 to 1968 Muscle cars
107	108 Roller rocker arms
109 9 quart oil pan	110 We had the bumpers rechromed
111 I custom made the 3 inch exhaust, also installed a sway bar.	112
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