Mission 47. Get your project car done in 47 hours. Part 2

Isn’t the car finished yet? Is the bank account strained and 2015 already here? Is there about to be another summer without a classic car where you just visit car meets? – Forget about it! Complete it now! Do it in just one weekend with the help of friends and ride all summer long. By Lars Krantz. Translation Ellen Kay Krantz.

 The project car Mission 47 was created in 2008. The story of Mission 47 has repeatedly been in high-demand ever since. 

Does the makeover of a car have to take three years, ruin relationships and end with a paintjob for 4600$? Is that happiness? 

Maybe I’m starting to get old, but I remember a time when disengaged hubcaps and chromed plastic screw-nuts was hot before midsummer weekend of -77. I remember when a couple of friends painted a car for less than 120$ and kept its shine the whole summer through.

Is your car standing on flat tires, kind of rusty with a tired looking paint in the garage? Are you feeling pressured by the ones dividing the trunk cover to see if there is possibly any rust between the sheets? Forget about it.

We are going to quick-fix the car, we’re gonna’ have a good time doing it and we will above everything RIDE this summer! It is high time for a Mission 47. Five heroes gather to transform a worn down car to a smooth roller in 47 hours. And all of this to the cost of 1300$. Ride along.

Part II

 

The mission:

In less than 48 hours get the Buick ready for summer. The car needs rust work, lowered suspension and a paint job.

Conditions:

Mission starts 5 PM Friday and the car has to be finished 4 PM Sunday.

A warm space, car lift and paint box.

Total money spent cannot extend over 1250$.

No professionals, only amateurs participate.

The Team.

The chosen Mission 47 2008 team was:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mission 47 was executed without a lifeline.

Normally you would finish a project before publication. Mission 47 was published live in real time with a modern, in 2008, webcam where internet followers could follow the progress day and night during 47 hours. The readers got to join the successes as well as the setbacks in this naked and revealing live stream. Updates about the race against the clock from the sleep deprived and raging amateurs were continuously posted for the readers to take part of. No manipulation of reality, only the naked truth. The response was huge. People watching live sent over delivery pizzas at night, watching for hours realizing they had to be hungry since they had been at it for hours with no food. People came with parts for the car. One guy came with sandwiches. The local newspaper had the crazy guys in the garage that didn’t sleep for an entire weekend as front page news.

Melted. When the car was first spotted in New York State it had been outside on the same spot for ten years and “melted” as they say in America. It got a paint job in 1995 with fake fixed spark boxes. Today the paint is cracked and shaved off. The spark boxes need a complete change. The car has to get new paint job. What is even possible to do in 47 hours?

Car home in Sweden. It runs smoothly but the stiff diagonals forced Krantz to winch it into the garage.

The rusty tubs were welded prior to Mission 47. It’s Wednesday.

Friday is The Day. Then it’s time for the Buick to get rolled into a borrowed body shop in Härnösand for 47 hours of massaging by the Team. Don’t miss part 3 in the March issue of Worldkustom.