It’ll be one of the biggest, most gut wrenching decisions since …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decision_(TV_program)

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The struggle is real!! So glad I'm finally past that stage... 😉 Whatever you chose.. It will be stunning..

WTF !!!!!!

13 plus years. I'm gonna be dead before it's done......

Well, unless I put it together as-is I'm stuck. Maybe I can borrow one of your painters??!!

Jim ???

Yeah Jim is the only one I can afford plus he does a very nice job. But he's had my car at his house for a year or more and I don't believe anything has been done at this point. Not blaming him, he's got a lot of stuff going on right now. But it's been 13 years since I had a running car so I'm anxious to get something going. Maybe I can talk myself into just putting it together as is. It would be fun to drive but I don't know if I could get over the looks lol.

Still better than livin’ in an upside down van…down by the river!

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Because I had to know what the hell this thing was.

https://laughingsquid.com/gmc-van-th...and-backwards/

Incredible.

I kinda remember you painting way back when........

Absolutely, and I could do that (though it would be harder to do in my current space lol). But I'd never get the bodywork good enough for me, that's over my ability.

Jim is only about 15 minutes away from me, I can go pick up your car. I have bondo and rattle cans standing by. Some of the rattle cans might even have brown left in them, and if not I have some brown latex and a roller that I used on the house last weekend. Depending on how fast you want it back on the road I might even mask it off first.



13 years isn't a long enough wait anyways. My car has been down since November of 2008... It's been disassembled for so long I actually had to look up when the engine got hurt, and now that I've typed out November of 2008 I honestly can't believe I've let it sit for this long. I should probably start working on it again, LOL

Your problem is you have to keep up with the Lillards… :)

Don

My project has been painted since May of last year...was initially waiting for my wet-sand guy, then I became the wet-sand guy. Now I'm waiting on my buff guy and hoping I don't have to do that as well...


Jeff-

I learned nearly 25 years ago that THAT is not happening lol. :lol:

But that's the fun part... :wacko:

I can't believe your car has been down, that long. Seems only yesterday we were talking about its hurt small block, on Team Chevelle. Course, I haven't been on that site for many years.

Car is looking great, Jody.

Thanks Don. :thumbsup:

Crazy how time flies. I kept spending too much time working on other people's cars and pushing mine to the back of the shop because I'm too irritated and burned out after messing with other people's cars to work on mine, and spent time with other hobbies instead. Little did I know I've been neglecting it since 2008. Doesn't feel like that long ago it was still running and driving...

The 2 hurt pistons are still hanging over the bench in the garage, I see them every day.

I'd offer to give Jody a hand, but he's a bit further away than a 1/2 hour drive now after the move. His car on the other hand I can get on a trailer and get it back to the shop in less than an hour...

Spoke to Jim this a.m. and looks like we're on track for knocking the dents out this summer. :king:

Yay!

I completely trust Jim, but if you ever want me to swing by and check on anything as a second set of eyes let me know.

Thanks Troy!! :thumbsup:

When was the last time you bugged Jim ?

There..I fixed it for you.

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It'll be worth the wait. He's been looking forward to doing your car for a long time.

Jody,
Any "spy" shots of the progress?

I wish I had something. Painter Jim??!!! :lol:

We have progress. I want to thank Jim as I know he's been super busy.

:thumbsup::thumbsup:



https://youtu.be/J6jplPkbe8g?si=OnkjuvbL2fckj2a0

:D

This is why I'll never have a car painted ever again. Takes too long, costs too much money, and then when it's all done, I'm scared to death to drive it. Patina cars for me...

Andrew

Unfortunately...... accurate. Especially for the Blue-collar guys out here.

Just sayin Andrew!

You really need to have a place (decent amount of space) & the right equipment to do a decent job.

You're not entirely wrong, but I'd rather hear nails on the chalkboard than spend the day doing body work. I was really good at accounting classes, which didn't mean I wanted to spend the rest of my life being an accountant.

Andrew

Just teasing. I can’t tune EFI. :) Speaking of which I should be getting with you next month to tune the Chevelle. Hope you are doing well.

Don

Can someone please check the temperature down in hell? Because something must be VERY wrong in the world when Jody posts progress pictures on the same day I'm actually in the shop working on my own car and not working on someone elses. That just doesn't happen... might be a sign of the impending apocalypse, lol

Regarding the patina meme that dhutton posted above, does that meme also apply to the guys who spend $150K+ on a build with perfect bodywork and metal fab and then pay tons of money to hide it under airbrushed fauxtina? :rofl:

There's a reason I haven't painted my car yet either, and that's because I liked to drive it and not worry too much about rock chips (at least when it used to drive, lol.) Although when you start getting rust holes peeking through the patina, it's probably time to do something...

Jody, did Jim burn all the original lead out of the roof/quarter seam, or did he just leave it and skim over it? How's the condition of the filler piece between the back window and trunk and the back glass channel? That's always a problem area on these cars because it's recessed and never drains without help. I've seen guys braze in drain tubes at the bottom corners of the back window channel (similar to a sunroof) and then run drain hoses down and out the trunk floor... works well. Although if the car isn't sitting outside in the rain leaving the glass channel constantly full of water it's not a huge problem, just use a blower to get the water out when you wash it or when it does get wet.

I do not know if Jim removed the lead. The car lived it's entire life in Sacramento, so it has virtually no rust. One small area just behind the rear wheelwell, that's it as far as I know.

Getting it roughed in. May not look like it but Jim has made a lot of progress, had some big dents to deal with.

I like the smooth transition from the quarter to the upper trunk panel. I hope to do the same.
Years ago, I saw a Chevelle that they smoother the front fender to the headlight cover.


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