1967 ss/rs resto/mod

[Too Many Projects]

About the time I had the engine/trans in, we found a different home and placed an offer that was accepted with a closing date only 30 DAYS away !! That put the HURRY on the rest of the front clip. After the chemical stripping, the metal was too smooth for the SPI to hold. Barry recommends 80 grit sand on bare metal for "tooth". I wasn't going to hand sand everything, so I took it to a local blaster and stressed that all it needed was a light texturing. He was a little perplexed, as it was all bare steel, but understood what I wanted and kept the nozzle back quite a ways and it came out nice.

I knew the left fender had more than it's fair share of bondo in it but I didn't expect what I found when it came back from chemical stripping. That poor fender was a crinkled mess. The leading edge was crushed and folded and had been shaped out of filler. I don't have much in the way of metal shaping skills to save the fender, but I tried and it had to go back on the car, so it did get epoxy primer and jamming of the original Granada Gold.

















Shortly before we signed a contract on the other house I had been in negotiations with Camaro Specialties near Buffalo NY for an NOS left rs fender. I did a 38 hour run out there just before we moved and brought it back.








I threw the rear axle back under the car and a patch panel in the left rear foot well and then the car was ready to be moved.





And that is where it stayed until last weekend. I had no heat in my new, to me, pole building and spent all summer, and a good chunk of change, insulating, stepping the trusses for an overhead door, ceiling panels and heat. I now have a very comfortable shop to work in again this winter.


Seems the only pic I have showing most of the shop is with my '66 Chevelle.





I backed the Camaro in and marked where I wanted to cut the quarter off for a new skin and outer wheel house sections. The 2 rust holes weren't that bad and I could have used patches, but the entire length of the panel has filler from an old crease. NOT going to fight with that.











So off it came...