Definitely referring to restomods. Maybe I just feel like I have seen more or the black ones have stuck in my head longer. I certainly haven't kept count. Like I said, blacks a great color. I'm just kind of bored with seeing it :lol:

I replaced the luggage stop ends, which someone had cut up for some reason, and installed the luggage stop. Now the rear is set up correctly and is stable. I used the extra 1966 Convertible frame I have as a fixture. The next step will be to replace the rocker channel.

Step 1 was to drill out the spot welds on the old end pieces.
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New pieces compared to the old. I really dont understand why someone cut the end pieces up, but i assume it was to remove the center luggage stop. They must have overlooked the 4 rivets.

http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps0ca0dcb9.jpg

New metal!!! I decided to plug weld the luggage stop in place to make it stronger instead of using rivets.

http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/a...psc09f49df.jpg

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I like the added strength. :thumbsup:

nice work on the birdcage. Keep the pics coming.

I installed the new rocker channel and repaired the pillar.

http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/a...psd0143cb7.jpg

Here you can see where someone attempted to repair the old rocker channel by splicing in a decent rear section from another car.

http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps6243b45e.jpg

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The hinge pillars are not reproduced. Fortunately, I put an ad out for a pillar and found one that would work. The one I found was rotten at the top, but solid at the bottom. Mine is solid at the top and rotten at the bottom, so I removed the metal I needed from the other pillar and spliced it into the one original to the car. After much thought, I decided it would be best to overlap the metal for strength.

My welds are not the prettiest, but it will look nice once they are smoothed out.

http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps0856a0b5.jpg

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Always fun to see a Corvette Forum guy over here. I imagine your project will be better received here. Looking good!

At least you like to follow the build on the Corvette forum! This build shouldn't bother any purists since it was so far gone. I doubt most people would have bothered to fix it. I can assure you that if I had known its true condition I would not have purchased it!!! I've never built a restomod out of a numbers matching car, so technically none of my builds should have offended anyone. Should being the key word.

I know that I am enjoying this thread. Thanks for sharing all the details and great pictures as you progress. It really is coming along great! I look forward to each post.

I've decided that the car shall be named Maybelline. I just discovered that when someone replaced the passenger side hinge pillar in the past that they decided to hack through the windshield frame in two places and then weld in the donor pillar plus a portion of it's windshield frame instead of drilling out the spot welds and replacing it in the correct manner. They then covered up the poor repair with body filler. Maybe it's Maybelline???
So, with that said, let me introduce you to MayBelline!

Well, it looks like I am going to need another $1100.00 worth of metal before the cage is finished. Im going to repeat what I said in the last post... Whoever replaced the original passenger hinge pillar did not drill out the spot welds and graft in the metal correctly. Instead, they cut the windshield frame in two places, as seen below in the pictures, and then welded in the donor section with a portion of it's windshield frame. The passenger pillar is leaned in 3 degrees and the windshield frame is crooked. I put the windshield from the split window in place to check the alignment and once in place, it confirmed that things were out of whack. It is so tight at the bottom the glass and rubber barely squeezed into place.

http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps4915434d.jpg

Outside of windshield frame where it was cut then very poorly welded back together.

http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps9c17613f.jpg

Interior portion of windshield frame. This was all covered up by filler.

http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps7279719b.jpg

Here is where the second cut was made.

http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps3a4fd1b1.jpg