1967 Ford Squire wagon restoration

Excellent!

 

Your doing it right Doc
I would Love to see the look on your wife's face on her first test drive
Heck I like to see the look on your face
Keep the pics coming
Rick

 

Doc, the re-furbished cluster looks new. It's amazing what a lil elbow grease and a few key parts can do. Thanks for the clear plastic re-conditioning tip. Mine isn't that bad, but if I ever get bored (yeah right, who has time for that huh?) I'll try what you did.

 

Good to hear from you again, Hal. How's it goin'?

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After the doc is finished with 'doctoring' he can start a second career as a 'picker'........Where does he find this stuff?

 

Thanks, KK. Doing fine. Had to miss Knott's this year due to a prior commitment to my son for Opening Day of trout fishing season. The Opener is always the last weekend in April, and this year the Fab Fords show landed there, too.

BTW, fishin' was slow...but it beats workin'.

We return you now to your regularly scheduled program already in progress...

--Hal

 

Here is the exact process I used on the clear plastic speedo lens with
severe yellow haze from 40+ years of wiping dust off with a dry paper towel.
I slightly modified what was done at the below link
http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=32206
Note pic below is borrowed from genvibe.com



1. Cleaned the lens with dish soap
2. laid it flat on a bath towel with the outside of the bezel up.
3. Started to wet sand 1000grit with soapy water in one direction along the bezel
4. Repeat with 1500, 2000, and 2500 all in the same direction. Note you may want to only use light pressure thru all the steps and be careful if you wish to save the part numbers on the lens you will have to go around them otherwise they will be gone.
5. Flipped bezel and sanded inside starting with 2000 then 2500 (not as bad on inside)
6. Used a drill with foam ball and Plastx fully perpendicular to the surface moving slowly left to right.
7. This step requires repeated polish, buffing off with a microfiber towel, then re-polishing. I noticed that if I let the polish dry it was harder to remove. You will have to try mild to med. pressure. I started with more pressure at first then as I buffed and reapplied, I would use less pressure.
8. Flip and repeat on the inside of the lens. Hold up to the light and keep going until it is crystal clear..it takes a while. I hit both sides with windex and a microfiber towel and that did it!

 

That gives me hope, Doc. If you can find NOS cluster parts for one of the more popular Ford wagons that's 11 years older than mine, then I can look forward to the same 11 years from now! Nicely done!

 

Nice!

 

Yeah, I missed it too, since I'm not in SoCal anymore......

 

Dr. B, you have great attention to detail!
I sure do admire how thorough you are with every aspect of this wonderful and very fortunate Ford.

Great job! :2_thumbs_up_-_anima

David

 

This wagon is destined to be a show winner without even trying.

 

This Squire is going to be nothing short of amazing. Your patience and perseverance are an inspiration, Doc.

 

Its official, I just sent the old original fiberglass woodgrain trim to California to have Mick from Woodgrain4wagons.com restore them to better than new!

I will have before and after pics when they come back.

 

I can tell you, Doc, that the trim Mick restored on my car is holding up real well. You should be well pleased.

Meantime, have any pix to share?

--Hal

 

Didn't know there was such a guy. I'll have to file this one for future use.
Can't wait to see it Doc.
Rick