My 1987 Two Door Crown Victoria AKA THE BROWN BLOB

[Jason_GMQ91]

Wow great pics!! cannot wait to see when your car will get fully paint soon!

[87gtVIC]

Body Work Week Three

Got to the body shop this Morning

Week Three

Drivers side 1/4 panel repair.

There was a few dents, a big crease and a few other odd and ends to take care of.

[OneBadLSE]

Its comming along well! While you're getting it painted, you may as well rip the top off and paint the whole roof.

[87gtVIC]

Its comming along well! While you're getting it painted, you may as well rip the top off and paint the whole roof.

Thats actually what i really wanted to do, but i am having all of the work done for free. I just pay for all the materials and such. I dont want to push my luck. A nice brown top will go back on. The car will still look good.

[Jason_GMQ91]

Nice work man!!

[Brown_Muscle]

great work! that car will look like new when your done with it! Cant wait to see the finished product!

[LTDMan83]

Those must be some really nice guys at that bodyshop, to do all that work for you for free! Brown is an excellent color for any box, and I'm sure teh Blob will be a complete Stunner once done. Can't wait to see how it turns out for ya.

[87gtVIC]

Yep i am very fortunate to have the work done for free. I am also doing a lot of the work within the shop as well. They do the plastic work on the car then i feather edge everything out. That is the shitty part, wetsanding all of the imperfections out, but my arm is getting real muscular from it all. And its nice to actually preform body work on a car, especially your own.

[87gtVIC]

New Hood and Black Column Covers

On April 13 2009 my car and I made the three hour trip to Scottmang. Thread found here: http://www.grandmarq.net/vb/showthread.php?t=28870

There Scott and I installed a new hood off of a 1979 LTD-S Crown Victoria. My old hood was rusted through and it had numerous dents.





I also installed some fender supports. Scott harvested them for me while i harvested a HO computer.





And today i installed black column covers from either a 81 or 82 Thunderbird. I think they look pretty neat.









The old cover.



I also tried to install the wiper switch out of the same Thunderbird but it was not compatible. It was missing one pin as compared to the stock one in my car.



I also fixed that pesky radio face plate bezel. As pictured you see the center divider popping up.



I heated it a bit and coerced it to bend straighter so i dont see a nasty gap between the radio and radio bezel anymore. It made me real happy.

I forgot to take a pic of the after..but just imagine the previous picture but with that sag reversed.

[Brown_Muscle]

Thats looks great! an LTD-S you say...hmmm. I like the steering column cover, from a thunderbird you say..hmm havnt seen that done before!

[Jason_GMQ91]

Wow! its looks great David. good work!

[87gtVIC]

Thats looks great! an LTD-S you say...hmmm. I like the steering column cover, from a thunderbird you say..hmm havnt seen that done before!

Yep LTD-S..i was soo tempted to grab the header panel off the car at the yard.

And the column cover came off of a 81 or 82 Thunderbird. It fit right up.

Wow! its looks great David. good work!

Thanks Jason..


I now have a total of 4 different body colors on my car.

[Brown_Muscle]

Yeah u shudda grabbed the header panel and made your car into an LTD-S! then my car would not be as unique but still! it'd be awesome haha.

[Jason_GMQ91]

Thanks Jason..


I now have a total of 4 different body colors on my car.

Hahaha, yeah I noticed that. wink!

[87gtVIC]

Yeah u shudda grabbed the header panel and made your car into an LTD-S! then my car would not be as unique but still! it'd be awesome haha.

I like both styles. Maybe one day i will be able to get another cv and do that to it.