'67 Chevelle Concours wagon, bring it back to life

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----I kinda thought the same thing!....Bill S

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Or... Imagine an L78 Concours!!

Let's put a face on this thing!

There were three different grilles used on '67 Chevelle. The top one is Super Sport, note the blackout and open slots continuing to the ends.
The center one is unique to only Concours, Exact same as SS but with two pierced holes for the grille emblem.
The bottom one is for all the Chevelles, Malibu, 300 and El Camino.

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It was necessary to knock down the grille assembly to properly clean the pieces.

There is a corner bracket on originals to bolt the valance to the fender. The NOS valance panels do not come with this bracket. So if replacing you need to remove and weld to the new panel. An often overlooked detail.

These pieces are held together with 3/16x1/4 aluminum semi-tubular truss head rivets. I have this rivet squeezer that makes this job a snap, it's been used on my cars on those of others, does a nice job.
Carriage head bolts can be used, but the bottom row of rivets are installed head down, so bolts would be a dead give away.

And... the assembly ready to bolt on. Shame on me, I neglected to get pix with this installed. Moving on to fenders.

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This car had fairly nice fit and gaps to start with, other than the right side fender which had been replaced. The left fender fell into place. The right side proved to be a challenge and I pulled out several tricks to bring it in line, including a couple I learned from Terry Davis. After juggling shims here and there it turned out acceptably well.

A floor jack under the sway bar bracket will tighten the fender to A pillar panel gap to start with.

With the top tight the jack under the frame behind the wheel will tighten the fender to rocker gap.

Chevelles tend to pucker out at the fender bottom, a ratchet strap between the fender bottoms (the holes are already there) will pull the bottoms in line. At this point sock the bolts down tight, and install the rocker moldings. The moldings will give a backup support to keep things lined up.