1970 442 Pace Car Restoration
September 20th, 2011, 04:59 PM
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1970 442 Pace Car Restoration
Now that I have the pictures figured out I can start a restoration thread.
Finally got the car dropped off a week ago at the restoration shop. I was lucky enough to find 2 mint GM NOS quarters. We are starting with the drivers side rear quarter and inner quarter.
Finally got the car dropped off a week ago at the restoration shop. I was lucky enough to find 2 mint GM NOS quarters. We are starting with the drivers side rear quarter and inner quarter.
September 20th, 2011, 05:19 PM
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well i gotta say progress is going great! both quarters hung and lines are perfect. i am very glad i asked my friend "larry" at pugesekmotorsports to handle the restoration on my car. he is very familiar with gm A bodys although his forte is dropping early corvette bodies on modern suspension. some of his work/fab skills would blow you away!! check out his website. its always nice to know your car is in the hands of a perfectionist. will get more pics as progress continues as everything on this resto will be done at his shop.
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September 20th, 2011, 05:22 PM
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. i will get to it one of these days
September 20th, 2011, 06:02 PM
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. gonna restore it back to bone stock.....................but i have to bolt in a set of red W-30 fenderwells
they are easy enough to switch out plus they are damn cool!!!!
September 20th, 2011, 06:23 PM
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Glad my quarter's and wheelhouses are going to good use.
Your shop looks to be doing a great job.
Nothing like NOS
Charlie best of luck to you on you restoration.
Chris
September 21st, 2011, 03:30 PM
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thanks again fr the qtrs Chris. i know what your talking about steve, i am just west of chicago and it seems every time we get 1 inch of snow they drop 3 inches of salt
. my qtrs were alot worse than pics showed.
. my qtrs were alot worse than pics showed.
January 26th, 2012, 07:24 PM
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Charlie, I enjoyed this thread immensly. Keep up the great work. Now I'm curious about something. I saw that when you took off the 442 emblems on the PS fender the paint underneath was red. Also can see that there is red under the white where the patch panels were welded (nice job on that BTW; it looked really ugly under there). Do you know the history behind that?
January 26th, 2012, 09:35 PM
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Allan I noticed that too, but did you see it doesn't look like there is any red under the paint pealing from the rocker panels so I was thinking the fender was replaced at sometime and they didn't even bother to take off the emblems
January 27th, 2012, 09:04 AM
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well the car got its arrest me red paintjob in 1978-79 with some shoddy bodywork, then in 1995-96 was repainted back to its stock colors with even more worse bodywork and prep
. it seems they just taped everthing off and blew the white paint on. i never get why people do such crappy work like this. anyway its getting done right this time. and the fenders look to be original with the flat edges and the right holes for the emblems with no extra holes.
. it seems they just taped everthing off and blew the white paint on. i never get why people do such crappy work like this. anyway its getting done right this time. and the fenders look to be original with the flat edges and the right holes for the emblems with no extra holes.
January 27th, 2012, 10:54 AM
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I noticed it first because there was red paint under where the 442 emblems were. Then when I looked closer at the feathering on the lower fender where the patch panels were, I could see the layering of white under red under white. Nice to see that Charlie has it under control.
January 27th, 2012, 12:39 PM
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gonna knock the engine down next week to check main and rod bearings and take a look at the cylinder walls. have some reciepts to a rebuild right before car got parked............ we will see
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April 1st, 2012, 09:00 AM
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May 18th, 2012, 04:00 PM
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dropped fresh motor/trans this week. still need to do a couple small things before dropping body down. kinda slow going with getting the correct parts. hope to drop body next week and spray!
September 15th, 2012, 01:55 PM
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been working on the dash, finished with paint on body + all bolt on panels. quality material really makes a difference in final finish for sure! {larry if you read this you are the man}. the paint that was sprayed on door jambs and on hinge area is so perfect it does not need to be touched. just got a set of nos front and rear speakers from a gm nos parts hoarder after 6 months of bothering him {thanks joe}. waiting for carb to come back from plater. seem to have all the stuff to finish now. will post new pics of dash next week. it is sooooo nice to start see it all coming together now.
. quality material really makes a difference in final finish for sure! {larry if you read this you are the man}. the paint that was sprayed on door jambs and on hinge area is so perfect it does not need to be touched. just got a set of nos front and rear speakers from a gm nos parts hoarder after 6 months of bothering him {thanks joe}. waiting for carb to come back from plater. seem to have all the stuff to finish now. will post new pics of dash next week. it is sooooo nice to start see it all coming together now.
September 17th, 2012, 07:28 PM
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Thanks Roger! Glad you guys are happy with the project. It has moved along quite nice but I have one question can I do the first smoky burn out !!
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December 19th, 2012, 05:14 PM
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here are a couple more, have made more progress since these pics. just need to load pics to computer. cad plating on brake booster looks a little weird in pics not sure why? looks much betterin person.
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