by econopoor Wed Sep 22, 2010 8:09 pmAfter selling Rip Van Arkie my 64 8 door window van I didn't think I'd ever own another 8 door.
Well, about two months after Rip bought it I found this 67 8 Door on ebay. Looked pretty good and the price was right so I bought it.
My wife and I loaded up and made the trip to Missouri and picked it up. We met up with Rip and Three Van Man in Kennett MO on the way back. I was taking some parts to Three Van Man for a project he was working on and they wanted to check out my newest Econo. Here is Rip Looking it over.
It was late by the time we got home. Drove straight there, loaded, drove straight back with only a lunch stop in Kennett. Not too bad. About a 14 hour trip. Got up the next day and cleaned it out.
Gave it a good look over and checked to see what all I bought. Turns out It was pretty good. It had all the pieces except for the missing engine that I already knew about. Came with a set of long arm rectangular mirrors, A new radiator, A new set of tires on nice painted Econo wheels, Back up light, and a lot of other stuff. The story goes that it belonged to the man's mother in law. She was a kinda hippy chick and owned it since the 60's. Made several trip to California in it over the years. Originally green, She had it painted a light yellow. After she passed, Her son in law took it to a local body shop to get it repainted as he wanted to fix the old truck up. Problem was, He paid the shop in advance. They messed around and didn't make much progress on it. After a lot of bugging by the owner they finally just tossed a sloppy paint job on it and called it done. This started a lot of litigation between the two. The van just sat while all of this went on. The engine was stolen in this time. After it was all done, the owner was so fed up with it all he just wanted out. That's where I come in. Now it's up to me the fix all the poor body work. I'll start with the nose. It had as much as an inch of bondo above the right headlight. Took a pretty good hit here
I shot some black paint on it to show the damage. Pretty poor body work.
They just hammered over the holes for the Ford letters on the nose so it would hold bondo.
When I was in Rhode Island getting my new interior, Fred let me have this nose section from a parts van he had. It was very rusty but the part I needed was good. I got it down to this.
I started cutting into the nose to put this patch in. I stripped the dash. Pulled the glass and doors. When I got into it I discovered the door jam has a lot of damage as well.
That was a kinda blurry picture. I wished I'd saved the door jam that was on this nose section. Oh well. I have a couple of other around here. Now I'm getting to the putting it back together part. The hit even bent the dash a little.
Well. Here's where I'm at. I got the seams cleaned up. Cut out the damaged floor sections. I need to find a good section of floor between the wheelwell and toeboard. I have a NOS toeboard but I might try and hammer out the one that came out of this truck. It's solid, just dented. If anybody has a floor section drop me a message. I can sure use it.
This shot shows the rust and heavy pitting on the floor section. I need it from the center of the doghouse to the footwell, from the toeboard to the seam under the seat.
This is why you better know who you are dealing with. The body shop that did this horrible job just put regular masking tape over the rust in the rear pan then filled one of the six recesses with bondo. That is why I went to Rhode Island for my interior in my red truck. You have to have somebody the loves our trucks to do the work. If they hate what they are working on this is what you get. Masking tape metal work!! I'm going to have to go over this whole truck. LOL.
I'll keep updating this as I go along. I have a long way to go and I'm no Carl Owens. I can't rebuild a truck by lunch like he can. LOL. Might take me a few years. Thanks for looking.
Duane in Tennessee
Well, about two months after Rip bought it I found this 67 8 Door on ebay. Looked pretty good and the price was right so I bought it.
My wife and I loaded up and made the trip to Missouri and picked it up. We met up with Rip and Three Van Man in Kennett MO on the way back. I was taking some parts to Three Van Man for a project he was working on and they wanted to check out my newest Econo. Here is Rip Looking it over.
It was late by the time we got home. Drove straight there, loaded, drove straight back with only a lunch stop in Kennett. Not too bad. About a 14 hour trip. Got up the next day and cleaned it out.
Gave it a good look over and checked to see what all I bought. Turns out It was pretty good. It had all the pieces except for the missing engine that I already knew about. Came with a set of long arm rectangular mirrors, A new radiator, A new set of tires on nice painted Econo wheels, Back up light, and a lot of other stuff. The story goes that it belonged to the man's mother in law. She was a kinda hippy chick and owned it since the 60's. Made several trip to California in it over the years. Originally green, She had it painted a light yellow. After she passed, Her son in law took it to a local body shop to get it repainted as he wanted to fix the old truck up. Problem was, He paid the shop in advance. They messed around and didn't make much progress on it. After a lot of bugging by the owner they finally just tossed a sloppy paint job on it and called it done. This started a lot of litigation between the two. The van just sat while all of this went on. The engine was stolen in this time. After it was all done, the owner was so fed up with it all he just wanted out. That's where I come in. Now it's up to me the fix all the poor body work. I'll start with the nose. It had as much as an inch of bondo above the right headlight. Took a pretty good hit here
I shot some black paint on it to show the damage. Pretty poor body work.
They just hammered over the holes for the Ford letters on the nose so it would hold bondo.
When I was in Rhode Island getting my new interior, Fred let me have this nose section from a parts van he had. It was very rusty but the part I needed was good. I got it down to this.
I started cutting into the nose to put this patch in. I stripped the dash. Pulled the glass and doors. When I got into it I discovered the door jam has a lot of damage as well.
That was a kinda blurry picture. I wished I'd saved the door jam that was on this nose section. Oh well. I have a couple of other around here. Now I'm getting to the putting it back together part. The hit even bent the dash a little.
Well. Here's where I'm at. I got the seams cleaned up. Cut out the damaged floor sections. I need to find a good section of floor between the wheelwell and toeboard. I have a NOS toeboard but I might try and hammer out the one that came out of this truck. It's solid, just dented. If anybody has a floor section drop me a message. I can sure use it.
This shot shows the rust and heavy pitting on the floor section. I need it from the center of the doghouse to the footwell, from the toeboard to the seam under the seat.
This is why you better know who you are dealing with. The body shop that did this horrible job just put regular masking tape over the rust in the rear pan then filled one of the six recesses with bondo. That is why I went to Rhode Island for my interior in my red truck. You have to have somebody the loves our trucks to do the work. If they hate what they are working on this is what you get. Masking tape metal work!! I'm going to have to go over this whole truck. LOL.
I'll keep updating this as I go along. I have a long way to go and I'm no Carl Owens. I can't rebuild a truck by lunch like he can. LOL. Might take me a few years. Thanks for looking.
Duane in Tennessee
