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In Your Gauge Face

1/18/2013

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    The gauges in my 49 Ford could hardly be seen at night. Not to mention only half of the original 6 volt ones worked.I know that the common solution is to pull one of the little violet domes off of the lights, but I could not see changing away from that sweet phosphorescent UV display the car came from the factory with. I mean how cool is it to have a funky blacklight glow display?  I also didn't want the cobbled look of some cheap aftermarket clocks hangin' off the bottom of my pretty dash.

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Head Rush

1/9/2013

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I had to pull the heads off of the flathead to do some repairs to my valve train so I decided while they were off I ought to gussy them up a bit. I started by stripping the paint
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They were still pretty nasty, but it was cool to see all the ancient paint colors underneath.        
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So I took my time and sandblasted them both.
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Check out this sweet Ford Motor Company logo.
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Then came the primer,    
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And then the high temp paint. Overall they came out pretty good.
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