Well....She's Nekkid!
 

Well, my gold car is now blown apart for paint. Will have it up on the rotisserie within the next week or so. My nephew from Lawn Guyland will be out here for a visit in a week or so.... little does he know that he will be scraping the goo off the belly of this thing to earn his keep before it goes over to the media blaster's. More gory teardown photos at the link below.

Looking good Rob!

That looks great. You have been busy. If you can, take pics of the blasting process. We all love pics here....

Well it is actually for a self serving interest cause I'm going to have to do the same to mine. :D

The body seems to be in pretty good shape. :thumbsup:

I love when someone makes progress on their project (unlike me, lol). :thumbsup:

Looks good Rob !!!!

Lookin good. Are you painting it gold? I like gold. Gold is good.

Looks good! I learned my lesson now about finding a solid body to start a project. What color are you painting it?

Looks good! I'm just barely one step ahead of you!! Just about done sanding the bottom of my car...man the rotisserie sure is paying off this week!!

What color...we want to know!!!!! :yes:

me too... or unlike me too...however you wanna look at it :D

Looks good! I remember that stage.. :yes:

SW

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SW, saw your car at DSE over the weekend. Looks great. Motor made good numbers, should be awesome. :thumbsup:

Steve-o, Man...I...need some time to think about gold. Your car looks absolutely great in it (esp with the black/red graphics...awesome work by the way...wish I still lived on LI so I could come see it. Maybe next time I get back there (Mattituck)).

...but...I guess I'm just not too jazzed about gold. Maybe it's because that's the color it is now (kinda) and I'm looking for a CHANGE to happen...Hmmm...

I know it would be "different", and all that...The color I am most set upon at the moment is one of a group of reddish bronze-like colors by DuPont that really "pops" in the sun...I have changed my mind on color many times so far.... When I shoot the belly of it, I'll finally be committed. :D

I will shoot an old fender with some and clear it first chance I get, and post some photos. Won't be for a while.

Anthony, I really like what you did building that rotisserie. Nice Job. I was going to do the exact same thing, but Michelle ran off and bought me one at the Pleasanton Goodguys show from Autotwirler (the one w/jacks). How could I say no?

SW- Car is looking really great. Keep the photos coming!

Thanks!! Man what a woman...I'd accept it too!!! :thumbsup:

Here's a little inspiration for your nephew while he's knee deep in undercoating! Actually it isn't bad at all, I just heated it up and scraped it right of...then came the time consuming part, but it sounds like your blaster will have all that fun. Next car will be chem. stripped before I do anything, just couldn't swing the $1500 four years ago, oh well at least I know my car VERY well now!! :yes:

Also, here's a color I tried on last weekend, it's the PT Cruiser red, it looks great (very red) in the sun but a little too copper otherwise...so the hunt continues!!

Have fun with it!! :thumbsup:

Hey Anthony I think that is a really nice Red. There is another really neat red that they are using on the current Lincoln Navigator (and maybe some other Ford products as well) which really has a nice color to it and real vibrant highlight in the sun...Bottom of your car looks real good!!!

Thanks, I may have to take a trip and go look at one!!

schweet.....

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...ain't nutin' wrong with gold... (April Gold). WTF- it's different & It goes along with the turbo'd / EFI'd 6. Of course, no more lil 'ol 15x8 TT2's, either.

http://www.pontiacohc6.com/images/fbirdrearqtr

Hey Rob,

My vote would be gold! Next Camaro will definately be the factory Gold for 69.

Ross

Ross, OHC,

....Damn.


Now you've got me thinking about colors again.

THIS WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN...!!!!:D

She been blasted yet? Any pics? :)

Not yet, TN, just got her up on the rotisserie this past weekend and cleaning of the belly will commence this weekend. Hafta get all the major goop off the bottom before it goes to the media blaster's.

A few photos of the car up on the rotisserie. My back is really thankful for this thing. Got about half of the undercoating off today but had to cut the session short to go to a wedding...

Boy, does that bring back memories!

Jody

OOOOOH! That looks good. :yes: Man, I can't wait til I get my rotisserie built. Thanks for the motivation. :thumbsup:

Looks good Rob....I guess I better get back to work you're catching up!!! :thumbsup:

I should have weighed the shell before and after stripping the junk off the bottom....Easily 4-5 pounds of undercoat in each wheelwell. I guess all that goo did it's job over the years, tho.

Allright, time for the mini-tub!!! :yes:

wow..the body looks really clean. I wish I could find one that way. What color is it going to be?

Hi Smack...yes, mother nature is relatively kind to sheetmetal out here...as compared to where I'm originally from (Long Island) with salt on the roads in the winter....The fact that this car had a real healthy serving of factory undercoating probably helped things a bit too.

I ran a separate post on the color selection and I think I have it narrowed down to Bronze color #1 with black stripes:

https://lateral-g.net/forums/showthread.php4?t=1877

Hey Anthony yes the DSE tubs will go in after the car gets back from media blast. I have to decide if I am going to do the new DSE 4-link or not, because if I do that will affect how the upper shock xmember goes. Decisions, Decisions...

A few photos of yesterday's progress, with all the junk off the bottom...

You've done half of the media blasters work already !!!!

His job is gonna last about 20 minutes...:)

Hey Ned too bad you weren't in the neigborhood yesterday, I could have put you to work! :D

Well I guess It's about time for an update...I got the body back from media blast on Saturday and I was relieved to find that things weren’t too bad under all that paint.

The blaster did a great job. (Iron Circle Media Blasting in Tracy, CA)


I would never want to do media blast though, on a disassembled car that didn’t go up on a rotisserie. You would be hard pressed to get all the blast media out of it. Even with inverting the body, it still took me a good hour or so of vacuuming and blowing with compressed air and flipping it over and back, to get all the media out of there. It just kept coming out of every little recess in the body.

Both doors have their share of dings, and there is a dent in the sail panel on the passenger’s side quarter that someone filled with bondo, rather than spend any time at all working w/hammer and dolly, so that won’t be too bad to fix.

I shot it with Variprime etching primer to keep it from rusting before I start the bodywork in earnest.

cars in bare metal always look cool. The body looks pretty clean now.

Nice! It looks like you're well on your way, Rob.

Thanks guys-

Yeah Bill, My wife would agree I'm "well on my way..."

...to the nut house! :D

Well, stop typing and get busy!!!! ;)

Actually I need to make some progress on Penny too.. I am so busy doing car crap for the mag that I don't have time to work on my own crap.. :(


Anyways.. cool teardown pics! what color??

Consider yourself lucky. At least it's not the dog house. ;)

Rob it looks like you got yourself one clean camaro.The last few I have seen bare were much rougher.