rustover
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I've owned the car for 10 years. I'm a hobbyist and have not been able to work on the car as much as I would have liked. I have made a lot of newbie mistakes. First of all, I purchased this car as a project. I was missing a lot of parts. The title was in the original owner's name, so I was able to call him and get a lot of parts that I needed. I have restored just about every part to the car except body and paint. That's another mistake. Now I have a room full of totes of restored parts. On the next one, it will be body and paint first, then as parts are restored they will be installed on the car.
Here is a pic of when I first purchased it:
I have replace the complete front clip with gm nos sheet metal over the years. Sometimes nos stuff is great and sometimes there is a reason that stuff is still in the box. When I purchased the car, the fellow I got it from who does resto work, told me it was ready for paint. As I have learned about paint and body work, people have different meanings of the phrase "ready for paint". The body of this car is like an onion, the more you peel it, the worst it stinks.
Over the past 3 years I have been working on a new addition to the garage. I finally was able to get started back on the Camaro. I stripped the quarters and what I found was ugly. Somebody had placed new metal over the rusted out quarters and brazed it in. In some places the rust has already eaten through the new metal.
On the trunk drop off, looking through the hole you can see the original one still in place. There is actually 4 pieces of metal in the lower quarter.
I never could get the drivers door to align with the fender. The hinges have been rebuilt, but the edge of the door was off. I stripped it down and here is what I found:
As of right now I have both doors stripped and they have been media blasted and ready for epoxy.
The tail pan, was no different, it had some major damage along the bottom, and was rotted out around the taillight openings. Since I'm replacing the quarters, I'm also going to put a new one on. I have already removed the old one.
The good news is that the inner structure is good. There is a patch that I will have to back to the left side, but not too bad.
The goal here is to finish the doors, get them installed and then cut the quarters off. I hope to have the inner structure blasted, epoxied and the panels installed before spring. In the spring I hope to be priming and have the shell painted by summer. Stay tuned. Thanks for checking it out.
Here is a pic of when I first purchased it:
I have replace the complete front clip with gm nos sheet metal over the years. Sometimes nos stuff is great and sometimes there is a reason that stuff is still in the box. When I purchased the car, the fellow I got it from who does resto work, told me it was ready for paint. As I have learned about paint and body work, people have different meanings of the phrase "ready for paint". The body of this car is like an onion, the more you peel it, the worst it stinks.
Over the past 3 years I have been working on a new addition to the garage. I finally was able to get started back on the Camaro. I stripped the quarters and what I found was ugly. Somebody had placed new metal over the rusted out quarters and brazed it in. In some places the rust has already eaten through the new metal.
On the trunk drop off, looking through the hole you can see the original one still in place. There is actually 4 pieces of metal in the lower quarter.
I never could get the drivers door to align with the fender. The hinges have been rebuilt, but the edge of the door was off. I stripped it down and here is what I found:
As of right now I have both doors stripped and they have been media blasted and ready for epoxy.
The tail pan, was no different, it had some major damage along the bottom, and was rotted out around the taillight openings. Since I'm replacing the quarters, I'm also going to put a new one on. I have already removed the old one.
The good news is that the inner structure is good. There is a patch that I will have to back to the left side, but not too bad.
The goal here is to finish the doors, get them installed and then cut the quarters off. I hope to have the inner structure blasted, epoxied and the panels installed before spring. In the spring I hope to be priming and have the shell painted by summer. Stay tuned. Thanks for checking it out.