A photo album of the life and resurrection of the American Metal Products car, (or AMP CAR), built and submitted to Kaiser-Frazer in 1948, which resulted in the design and production of Kaiser's "Henry J" model. Why not learn more about Henry J. cars and the Kaiser-Frazer Owner's club? go to: http://members.tripod.com/~ben1937/kfoci.htm tw....... Update, October 22, 2005: Final painting has begun...go to last page! Update, Nov. 14, 2005 = All of the panels are painted, albeit with some really bad runs on the fenders and doors, likely due to inadequate lighting and zealous carelessness on the part of the AMPster "director." Further sanding is being done on the two rear fenders, the worst panels, and they are almost ready to be reprimed and painted again. VALUABLE LESSON: Don't try to paint more than about two panels at a time - (but have another one prepped and ready to paint in case I have too much paint left in the gun - this stuff has a short "pot life!" tjw.....CHATROOM FOR THIS PROJECT IS: - -- (Because of an insideous recurring spam advertisement, the chatroom for this site has been changed to ; http://www.theautochannel...ere%21&frame=frameset ).. - June 2, 2006, Except for interior wall and door upholstery and headliner, and some horn switch troubleshooting and a few other minor details, the AMP car is done today. Further work will have to be done at a later time, as time, parts, and finances become available. It has been seven long years, and many other projects await my attention. Thanks for visiting the AMP Car Project site!! Tom Wilson. http://www.theautochannel...frame=frameset......SEVEN LONG YEARS, FROM FEBRUARY, 1999 TO JUNE, 2006...THE A.M.P. CAR PROJECT .... CLICK ON ANY PICTURE TO ENLARGE, THEN BROWSE FORWARD AND BACKWARD THRU THIS SITE TO READ THE CAPTIONS.
While we were cleaning up the chassis, we wondered if there was anything inside the long, tubular side rails, so we blew it out, end-to-end, with the air hose. That brought out a lot of fuzzy fluff, apparently homemaking materials for the NATMUS mice! Some of it had to actually be mechanically removed as it hung up on fasteners and holes at the end of the tubing.
That's all the pictures we have been able to upload so far, as of Friday, August 3, 2001. Next to be uploaded are the series pictures of the chassis reconditioning and repainting, and the final result, the finished chassis, and from there, we will continue, as time permits, on the work on the Continental engine, and reassembly of the engine to the chassis, and eventually to body underside and interior cleaning and preservation and reassembly -- all recorded and uploaded in a more timely fashion because of our new digital camera..
This month, August, 2001, exactly one half of the five years alotted to this project have expired. (The car was picked up at Auburn in February, 1999.)
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