Mason's 1968 model 05

Hi, everybody, here are some pictures of our 1968 05 eagle. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures until I had it pretty well torn apart, so they're just pictures of bones. :lol:

This is the passenger side wheel well

This was a messy day on the floor!

HI Mason. Welcome to our forum and thanks for starting a project thread. They are always popular with our members.

As I mentioned in our email discussion, if it is at all possible, I would love to see photos of the 9 speed tower and the shift lever mechanism.

Jim

Hi Jim, hopefully I can get some pictures later today of the Shifting mechanism

Here are some pictures of my roof raise last week.
The process went like this: First I marked the uprights and torched holes(mistake) in them (above and below the cut line) Then, after attaching the jacks, I applied pressure and cut each upright, moving inward. After all the uprights were cut, I pushed up the roof, using an impact wrench on the jacks until the roof was 2 feet above the original position, allowing ample room to place the inserts in. (The total height of the roof raise was 12 1/4 in., resulting in a window height of 41 inches.) Then I proceeded to pound the inserts in.(all the torch slag caused some problems, which involved winching the roof down with come-alongs) After I finally got the roof down, (A 3 hour process) I then welded the inserts in.(Of course! :lol:

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Here is the VIN so maybe somebody can tell me what she was. I think it was Trailways but not sure.

These posts are from the fella we bought it from
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You can view it how it was here. The fella we bought it from posted this.
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Looks like you are deep into a complete redo, I envy your work space, I am much more cramped. Your raising the roof technique looks very solid, not every one goes to such lengths to reinforce the posts. Good luck on the rest of it.

Thanks DoubleEagle! Here is the finished product on the roof raise. I decided to put an upright in the middle of each window that is going to be covered, so the skin will be a little more solid.

And finally for Jim, here are pictures of the 9 speed shift linkage. What they did was use a original shift linkage rod with U-joints, allowing for a side to side motion along with a back and forth motion.