Yeah, it's cool. I have so many people involved in this project from about 6 different states. I would say about half of them I found from Instagram. That's why I try to give a shout out to everyone involved. Maybe other people working on a project might want to contact them. Keep the small businesses in business!

Still plugging away on the body work. I've already talked about and posted pictures of the hundreds of hours we have getting all the gaps perfect on this car. We also have many many hours in getting the "seams" perfect on the car.

Here is the "seam" where the tail panel meets the quarter panel.

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"Seam" where the rear window filler panel meets the quarter panel

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"Seam" where the quarter panel meets the rocker panel.

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"Seam" where the front fender meets the lower fender extension.

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"Seam" where the header panel meets the front fender.

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"Seam" where the fender meets the lower fender extension.

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"Seam' where the lower spoiler meets the lower valance.

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Going to be super tight!

Might as well body work the inside of the trunk while we're at it. No enclosure or fancy covered panels. Roll bar will be painted satin black while the rest of te trunk will be spatter painted like original.

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Looking amazing!

Collecting the last of the remaining parts. New glass all the way around, Rick's Vaporworx tank with ZL-1 pump, American Autowire, United Pacific LED tail lights and Michelin PS4's. 325 rears and 305 fronts.

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Just starting to work on the original stainless window trim. It is going to take quite some time to get every piece to fit like this one. Once it is perfect I will send it off to get fully polished.

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Looking good!!! Keep up the amazing work!

Man I love this thread.

Car looks amazing.


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this car deserves better than white paint :sieg:

First I want to say that I am honored to receive only your second post in more than a year. I have gone back and forth on the color several times. I just keep falling back to white with a black hockey stripe. My first color was Laguna Blue. Here is a front view rendering Ben from Street Rod Designs did for me a while back.

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I vote BLUE!! :excited::excited:

I may have to reconsider.

I'm offended ... lol

It's all about what YOU want/like. White is a great option.

It'd be hard to say this doesn't look great.



https://stielowengineering.com/

Got my Holley Pro Dash bezel from TJ at Atomic Machine. This will be powder coated gloss black to match the gloss black A/C bezels and the gloss black dash plaque on the passenger side.

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GP Manufacturing also finished the cerakote on the steering wheel. I'll send this off next week for the leather wrap.

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That's too pretty to powder coat. You should anodize it!

That was the first thing I thought when I looked at it. I have no other parts in the interior that are anodized. I only have two colors of black on the interior which are satin and gloss. I thougt it might not look right if this was the only thing anodized.

Here is the completed steering wheel back from GP Manufacturing. I am looking for a good place to send this to get a leather wrap if anyone knows of one.

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Don't know where you're located, but send it to Lopez Custom's in California. That's where I sent mine. They are A-1. His son is Gabe's Custom's as well. Basically the same business so to speak. They did the interior on the 69 Camaro named Grimm 7.0. They also did the interior of the 55 Chevy named Brute Force too. Just naming a few of the top builds they've done to let you know the level of work they do.

https://lopezperformance.com

Thanks for the tip. I just sent them a message through instagram.

I remember your steering wheel from your build thread. They did a really nice job.

Yeah, I'm satisfied with it. They actually do all of the wraps for Jonathan at Sparc who made my steering wheel and some of your billet parts.

Top of the hood is now flawless with the Gray Area Steel hood louvers. Bottom is in epoxy primer and ready for body work.

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This thread just keeps getting better and better.

Not sure what I love more the steering wheel or the dash bezel.


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Steering wheel is back after leather wrap. The first people I contacted never got back to me so I found someone in Arizona. Instagram is steering wheel art and the only thing he does is cover steering wheels.

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I would bolt the hood to the car and block it. It will change as soon as you have hinge pressure on it.

I like the hood adjusters on the truck. Slick idea but how do you plan for rain runoff? Do you plan on a drain tube? If you would off left a lip or seal it off flush. What’s your plan?

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Jimbo

We had the hood on and latched in place with the hood bumpers set when we did the mud work around the edges. Took it off to work the center and underside. We will bolt it back in place to lay down the polyester primer, guide coat and final blocking. I have done a few builds over the years, nothing to this level. It still blows my mind how many times this car has been assembled, dis-assembled and re-assembled.

It is hard to tell in the pics, but the area around the hood bumpers is slightly raised to form a small crown. The body filler defined the crown a little bit more. We ran a small stream of water down the channel on each side of the trunk and the water never did climb the crown, it just went right around.

Since the rear bumper will be painted body color, we spent an entire day body working it and getting it fitted for the final time.

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just wait till its painted, and then start scratching your head wondering why it won't go back together just as perfectly as you took it apart to paint.

When I originally fit the front bumper, it was in bare metal along with the fenders and header panel and everything fit perfect except the grille. I had never done this before so I figured I would trim and sand the grille where needed to make it fit. Then when my body guy came back, he did not want to modify the grille at all because it would weaken it around the edges because the grille is stepped in the back. So we spent countless hours metal working the fenders to make the grille fit perfect. Which it does.

Now came time to fit the front bumper and obviously it did not fit as perfect as it once did. We spent 6 1/2 more hours on the front bumper and only got the drivers side done. It was basically on-off-cut-weld-grind and repeat. We took the grille on and off again 6 times and had the bumper on and off a total of 12 times. I'm sure we will be doing the same for the passenger side.

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Looks great :thumbsup:

Thanks! I'm diggin' Plan Bee.

Got the passenger side of the bumper all dialed in with the grille and fender. Gaps on each side are perfect matches and the "V" in the bumper sits perfect with "V" in the grille, header panel and lower valance. Did notice that the passenger side "fang" is off by about an 1/8th of an inch. Probably won't be noticeable to anyone, but I know it's off so it will be cut off and moved to the center by 1/8th. Should have about 50 hours into the grille, bumper, fender fitment. Well worth the effort though.

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Well that was a little more work than I thought, but the "fangs" are perfect. We used masking tape to make a template of the drivers side"fang" and then reversed it for the pattern of the passenger side "fang". Although the majority of work was done to the passenger side, we ended up working both of them to get them the same. We are really close, probably another 10-15 hours of final prep work before my guy lays down the polyester.

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Can't wait to see her in primer :gitrdun:

I’m with you Mike.