I probly should have done this along time ago but better late than never right!! Bought this car in 09 its sun fire yellow with white interior bench seat 350/350 , nothing special about the car and that's why I'm building to my likings.
Goal is sunfire yellow ,black interior ,black stripes ,ram air hood , 442 suspension and being that the motor seem to run smooth , for now I'm running orig motor and trans.

 

[QUOTE=my72olds;860408]I probly should have done this along time ago but better late than never right!! Bought this car in 09 its sun fire yellow with white interior bench seat 350/350 , nothing special about the car and that's why I'm building to my likings.
Goal is sunfire yellow ,black interior ,black stripes ,ram air hood , 442 suspension and being that the motor seem to run smooth , for now I'm running orig motor and trans.



Parked in 1991 I managed to get the motor running after 25 years ,put fluid in trans and it pulls just fine . I rebuilt the front suspension with all new moog parts and hd moog springs . I've now decided to strip it apart and send it to get the paint and body work done. This will be a frame on kind of job . I'm building it to drive to local shows and drive ins.

 

Loaded up and headed to paint and body guy.

 

More pics getting ready to head to body shop

 

Floors are good just a few small places under rear seat and one in the trunk about the size of a dime.

 

Looks good. This would be the time to check that blower fan motor and replace it if needed. Does the body guy already have the front clip?

 

I hope to have it back by end of winter

 

Be sure to pop into the shop and get pics as they progress. It's always nice to have a picture documentation of what the car started as, and progressed to. Subscribed.

 

Yes Allen were going to be addressing that as well, the good thing is this guy is a one man car restoration shop and the plan is to add electric windows , get Ac going and rust repair and paint . No turning back now lol

 

We found a couple small places at the bottom of the windshield , pillers and upper are solid with no issues . We order a replacement to fix it , I'm just glad it wasn't any worse .

 

Last registration on it. 1991 I tried to scape the sticker off to put in my album but its sooo old there was no way. Car had windsheild replaced at some point , my body guy just happens to have a nice orig tinted one with the antena in it he's goin to give me .

 

Testing the old paint to see how wire wheel and sanding does as I really didn't want to blast it with anything . Had core support , both fenders and crossmember sand blasted.

 

Nice straight solid truck lid I bought from another CO member.

 

Car had some bumps and bruises . I had a set of no rust solid fenders I scrounged up and a parts car with good door or atleast better than these anyhow .

 

Ok motor and trans is out. I'm taking it home . Trans is getting new front and rear seal , filter and pan gasket. Motor get timing gear set , oil pump , water pump , and of course oil pan , valve cover and intake gaskets. Car had 91k orig miles motor sounded good and it oiled good . Wife said the performance motor build will have to wait so fix the leaks and get it dependable and my 350 build will come later. So that's what I've been working on lately .

 

Doner doors are hung and working on the rust issues . Found some more I wasn't expecting . There was some infringement and back of both wheelwells and the river side was the worse its like the car was parked by the ocean driverside facing it of something . There was some in the lip also so he's cutting and welding in patches . Also welding up all the trim holes as he goes along .

 

Wow the auto spell in my last post was terrible. And they call these things smart phones , if it was it would know what I was trying to say . In my house we call them stupid phones lol. Anyhow one all the rust issues are taking care of doors come back off for prep . These pics were takin Monday

 

He is taking pictures of everything as he goes and goin to put all the pics on a cd

 

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Did you know that you can load up to 5 pictures per post? If you have the images hosted on a cloud or server, you can just copy the [IMG] code and paste up to 20 pictures in a post. Easier than one at a time - hope that will save you some time?

 

Nice work. Good luck with her...and the wife.

 

Coming along.

 

very cool build. Love the color choice but I am bias.

 

Yea it's coming along , I still need to order the hood ...

 

Starting to block sand it

 

Updated pics

 

And another one

 

Ok update ....
I ordered the hood yesterday from Rob... Great guy product sounds great and I can't wait to get my hands on it .. 1,227.67 $s later , it should be here late 1st to 2nd week of November...

 

Ok update , hood is of great quality. It did need some clean up . We've just about got it all lined up straight , had some small things needed adressed .

 

Looks awesome! Gaps look perfect, especially at the stone shield. Nice job.

 

Your hood was OK from Fiber Concepts? Mine was a disaster. Very sloppy with the bonding glue underneath and around the air intakes. Also I had high spots on the top from the air box. My body guy had at least 12 hours into straightening it out. Glade yours came out ok.

 

Oh yea I have the clean up issues also , I had already figured on having to work on it some. Befor ordering . Don't know about any high spots. Atleast not yet. Hope not later either as paint is on it .

 

Ok so paint is on it . Next will be working on putting it together getting ready to lay out the stripes . I sure hope this car turn out how I see it in my head. My expectations are pretty high. I did all this once befor on a 71 chevy truck. It came out so bad , made me sooo sick that after getting the truck together I just sold it cause I couldn't get over all the flaws. I don't want a 15 footer ( looks good from 15 but don't get up on it nitpicking ). I did order front bumper from tamerez hope it fits good. Updated pics coming

 

And here's another one

 

I told my wife tonight when I got home from the shop ,how sexy she looked ( then I told her I was talking about the car ).

 

Ok last one for today ..

 

Beautiful curves don't you all think?

 

By the way incase some were wondering , this is a garage paint job. No booth none of that fancy stuff here. Can't wait to get back over there this weekend .