"cletus44 aka Clayton Seams" (cletus44)
02/10/2020 at 09:54 • Filed to: HopefulOpel
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"cletus44 aka Clayton Seams" (cletus44)
02/10/2020 at 09:54 • Filed to: HopefulOpel | 8
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What’s the first step to baking a cake? You clean the kitchen! This weekend I drove 90-mins to go start working on the Opel. The first thing I did was remove all the junk and parts that were piled up inside it. I had been told the car was complete and that turned out to be mostly true.
Look at that adorable little 4-speed!
The big deal is that the entirety of the headlight assembly was in the car and accounted for. That will help greatly. Missing items include two rear tail light lenses,
(the red ones) and it only has one seat in the car so I’ll need to source another. But it’s all pretty much there!
Once I had all the junk cleaned out of it I treated it to a steam bath. Or more accurately Todd, who is helping me out with this project, cleaned it and I watched. I think you’ll agree the difference was noticeable!
From there I started peeling away carpet, trim, and undercoating to assess the rust damage in the floor that I knew would be there. Sure enough, the lowest point of the floor where the seat mounts are was totally rotted out. But amazingly, the floor ahead of that crossbrace was actually in fairly good shape! Some rust holes here and there but nothing awful. So my first task will be to weld up a new seat frame and then make a new floor underneath that.
And now a question for you guys. This will be a long project and it will be documented for my YouTube channel, Classic Cars & Clayton.
Do you guys want a ton of weekly update videos on this?
One huge saga video at the end? or maybe divvy it all up into 3 or 4 separate but fully produced videos across the build. Let me know!
Nom De Plume
> cletus44 aka Clayton Seams
02/10/2020 at 10:51 |
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Finally an oppo project car we can describe as possessing a charming amount of rust.
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cletus44 aka Clayton Seams
> Nom De Plume
02/10/2020 at 10:53 |
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It’s cute rust
Censored
> cletus44 aka Clayton Seams
02/10/2020 at 11:41 |
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That 0.5FJ is rusted more than a J
eep. Where did it live its life, Atlanti
s?
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cletus44 aka Clayton Seams
> Censored
02/10/2020 at 11:44 |
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Lifelong plow truck. It’s seen some shit.
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Censored
> cletus44 aka Clayton Seams
02/10/2020 at 12:05 |
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I will not argu
e that. I see the chains now, makes sense. Did it have a spreader on the back? The whole back of the thing is gone.
MM54
> cletus44 aka Clayton Seams
02/10/2020 at 12:59 |
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I vote for regular updates as long as there’s something to update us on . Don’t get sucked into the making-content-for-the-sake-of-content. Made some progress in the past week? Cool, video time! Only did a couple odds and ends or nothing at all? Include it in the next one, whenever that may be.
Are you working alone? If so I’m going to be taking notes on how you pull off filming project while working alone because it baffles me (I’ve considered trying it).
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cletus44 aka Clayton Seams
> MM54
02/10/2020 at 14:02 |
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Good feedback! I think that’ll be my plan. yes, I am filming it survivorman style! It’s time consuming to shoot and work but doable.
someassemblyrequired
> cletus44 aka Clayton Seams
02/10/2020 at 14:03 |
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If you need stuff, these guys are fantastic for all things Opel
.
They have a huge set of PDFs on their site that are full of helpful stuff too.
My bird IS the word
> cletus44 aka Clayton Seams
02/10/2020 at 14:46 |
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I would do what is convenient to you. Don’t worry about us losers.
Personally I find a bunch of small posts easier as I forget less details in the moment.
shop-teacher
> MM54
02/10/2020 at 20:44 |
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I concur.