Eleanor front end update
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taylor4g63
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Hey man im loving the way your car looks. Im glad somebody decided to ditch the "bump" hood and go with a shelby hood, as well as going with a new paint scheme. I love the nose of eleanor...but thats about it. Now just drop a turboed 408 cleveland with a 6 speed and u'll be my hero 
taylor4g63 said:Hey man im loving the way your car looks. Im glad somebody decided to ditch the "bump" hood and go with a shelby hood, as well as going with a new paint scheme. I love the nose of eleanor...but thats about it. Now just drop a turboed 408 cleveland with a 6 speed and u'll be my hero
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last fewpics coming once the light are wired up, I'll post some pics of them turned on with the car actually pulled out of the garage. Time to move on to the built AOD swap with a shift kit, and 2,500 stall. Body work, and paint to be put off a few months. Want to be sure I can do it right -
Got new parking light lenses too. I just thought they were supposed to be yellow !
last fewpics coming once the light are wired up, I'll post some pics of them turned on with the car actually pulled out of the garage. Time to move on to the built AOD swap with a shift kit, and 2,500 stall.
Body work, and paint to be put off a few months. Want to be sure I can do it right -Got new parking light lenses too. I just thought they were supposed to be yellow !
golf4283
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zookeeper
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zookeeper said:
Good call. Still kinda working on that. I'm guessing I'll have to adjust it good before I finally put the front end on and cut a hole in the fenders just behind the headlight buckets to get new bulb through.
Hopefully I wont have to pull the upper nose off when I need to adjust the lights b/c I dont want to make holes there to get a screw driver through -
zookeeper
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The reason I asked is because the movie Eleanors didn't have to worry about that, so I assume for ease of construction, they just kept the large, two headlight system lights, while Shelby's used the smaller, 4 headlight bulbs, therefore allowing the use of atrim ring to cover the adjusting area68 & 00 GT said:
Good call. Still kinda working on that. I'm guessing I'll have to adjust it good before I finally put the front end on and cut a hole in the fenders just behind the headlight buckets to get new bulb through.
Hopefully I wont have to pull the upper nose off when I need to adjust the lights b/c I dont want to make holes there to get a screw driver through -
imshaggy2000
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Notice the small notches cut into the upper nose around the headlights that allow acsess to the screws that hold the trim ring/headlights in.
Yep. I have several of those pics on my screen saver, and never noticed that before.
Hmmmm. I really don't want to do that though. 
I've had my 68 for 16 years, and have only adjusted my headlights 1-2 times anyway. Granted several of those years here and there I wasn't driving it yes, but how often do you guys end up adjusting your headlights? Wondering how concerned I should be about it. I plan on driving the car pretty often when it's done.
Hmmmm. I really don't want to do that though.
I've had my 68 for 16 years, and have only adjusted my headlights 1-2 times anyway. Granted several of those years here and there I wasn't driving it yes, but how often do you guys end up adjusting your headlights? Wondering how concerned I should be about it. I plan on driving the car pretty often when it's done.
