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63 Galaxie Boxtop - CMEDROP's Build Up

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So two summers ago I purchased a '63 boxtop with 50,000kms on it, sight unseen. After having it trained in, this is what it looked like. I wish it was as clean as it looks in the pictures ;)














 

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Now that the panel replacement was done. It was time to decide on a power plant. The plan is to drive this car from Canada to California down the coast. So I opted for an engine that has tons of aftermarket options and is better better on gas than the 390.
5.0L ho efi. Picked up some motor mounts for the 289 that fit perfectly.







 
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Once we had the belly of the car completely smooth, we moved on to the frame.


We took measurements and removed the leafs. From there we started to put the 8.8 diff with disc brakes in place.




We are using the front leaf mount for our lower bars on the 4link.





We are mounting the bags behind the axle. I borrowed the bags off our 51 ford project to help mock up the mounts. I will be running Airlift Dominator D2500s.


 
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looks good!! i see your making plenty of progress. let us know how the bags come out. i was thinking of bagging my fastback after i mini tub it..
 
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hey wats up i have a 63 im working on but mines a fastback ive done all the similar mods u done but i shaved everything off mine except the door handles, ive shave the trunk and the gas door and the area around the gas door, i have the same problem in my trunk with the braces imma make some for mine also. are u putting a four link on urs?
 
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hey wats up i have a 63 im working on but mines a fastback ive done all the similar mods u done but i shaved everything off mine except the door handles, ive shave the trunk and the gas door and the area around the gas door, i have the same problem in my trunk with the braces imma make some for mine also. are u putting a four link on urs?
sounds cool.
do you have any pictures?
and yes i am doing a 4link, the tabs for the bars just need to be welded on now.
 
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Now that we had the 4link tacked together, we put the body back on the frame to see how it fits. It turns out that we needed to raise the trunk floor where it dipped. So we chopped out the trunk floor which we had finished.





The car at ride height. It will get a little more lift with the Airlift Dominator D2500 bags.



The car sacked out in the rear.





The gf taking some pictures. She has a way better camera, but we would be still waiting this time next year for her to upload them :nut



Oh yeah can anyone guess what I am doing tomorrow?

 
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The driveshaft was hitting, so we opened up the tranny tunnel. The original brace was way too low, so we made a new one to allow for the clearance we needed.



Just a picture comparing the new with the old.



Started forming the new tranny tunnel.



Tacked into place still need to clean up everything and finish it off.

 
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