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30KB, This it what it looked like when I first bought it. Pretty rough but I saw potential in the looming project.
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23KB, Here is one of the passenger side before. Primered over all of the rust spots. Hub caps are not as good as they look here.
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25KB, This is a shot of the rear, which was actually the best side of the whole car. Bumper is not in very good shape but I have another one.
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26KB, The front had been banged around pretty good. I ended up getting a hood from a 68 to use on it. Alterations were realtively easy.
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32KB, As you can see the interior was pretty well shot as well. This has not been an easy restoration but I enjoy a challenge not to mention the "ride".
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27KB, Actually the best part of the car was the dash. Although it was in fairly good shape, I have opted to replace all of the guages with Autometer.
If someone is looking for 67.5 guages, I have some extras. Hint-Hint.
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27KB, This is a shot of the engine bay before I started tearing into it.
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25KB, This one was taken after I had stripped the car and before I decided to take it to the metal strippers.
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30KB, Here is another shot from the side. The new hood\old hood was sent to the metal stripper as well.
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60KB, This is one right after we had lifted the body off of the frame.I used eye bolts in the threaded holes right in front of
the package shelf.
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59KB, One completely stripped frame. I took the rearend apart, cleaned it up and replaced all the seals. Completely went through
the front end as well.
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53KB, Here is a shot of the stripped shell from the rear. There was a lot of surface rust in the floor pan but no major rot.
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64KB, This is the stripped shell from the side. Lots of work ahead of me but I like a challenge.
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50KB, Here is some nice brazing around the passenger side tail light. I do not believe this was stock as they probably used lead
to fill joints.
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28KB, This is the passengers side after I had sprayed it with self ecthing primer, primer sealer, and spotted with black primer.
This is an excellent way to guide coat.
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22KB, Here is another shot from the rear.
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27KB, Here is a shot of the front right. A good start but a long ways to go.
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31KB, Here is a shot of the drivers side. Look at all of those low spots I found while guide coating. None of them are deep but left alone would
show through my new paint job.
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28KB, Here is shot of the front after guide coating.
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