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Fesler Built LS-9 1969 Camaro Black Knight Project Underway

Hey Guys,

As many of you know I bought this car as a perfect white 1969 Camaro and had lots of issues, well we finally got them all worked out (what a pain in the A%$) We have had it in our shop for about 6 months as most of you know we got the car in tore it down and started to do all the work to it. Well we had some huge title issues so the car had to sit for well over 3 months. So we had to double time this build to get it to SEMA this year.

Enough of that, let’s move on to the cool parts and the not so cool parts and this is something you all need to really watch for when buying cars from the website. If you buy a car with tons of pictures and a good word behind it you still need to be very careful and make sure you are getting what you paid for.

Some might say we got this car at a great deal but once we got into it and realized we had to completely tear it down things weren’t so great. See for yourself as we transform this from a white terd to a Black Knight

Here is what we are going for and we are building a matching 2010 to go with this car.
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/j...DARKKNIGHT.jpg

Here is what we started with

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Glad you finally got it worked out. Looking forward to see whay you do with it.

Good to see it worked out for you. That rendering looks sweet!

anywhere but Arizona that is rust free :D

Thank you for sharing the detailed constuction pics

Man Chris you got alot of free rusty parts :_paranoid :cheers:

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Originally Posted by DOOM (Post 242720)

Man Chris you got alot of free rusty parts :_paranoid :cheers:

Thats the problem with buying a car from the internet, you never know what you are going to get until you start tearing it down. This car has or had rust all over it so we had to keep going and going on something that we were told was perfect. SURE ADDS ALOT OF MONEY TO A PROJECT.

Kinda like taking a foxy lady home from a bar and once home you find out she has a bigger shlong than you!!

Never know what's under a dress or paint!!

I would figure with all your experience you would have looked at the car first. By no means am I defending the car.

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Originally Posted by Stuart Adams (Post 242736)

thats the problem with buying a car sight unseen. We were told from very good sources here that this car is perfect and the guy selling it told it like it was. Maybe he did not know of some of the stuff here but he knew it was not rust free. We got about 10 min to look at it before we bought it and found a few small problems but once you dig in its a complete new game. People are very good at hiding things. We had a guy bondo and body work a underside floor board right over rust so it looked perfect. Not much you can do till you tear it apart. that’s just the way it goes.

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Originally Posted by fesler (Post 242598)

As many of you know I bought the listed as perfect white 1969 Camaro from this site and had lots of issues,

You did not buy that car from this site. You bought it from a private party in a private sale.

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Originally Posted by XcYZ (Post 242740)

You did not buy that car from this site. You bought it from a private party in a private sale.

Scott, it was bought from the for sale section here is all I meant, I think everyone knows that I did not buy it from you or Lateral-G.

You worded it as if you purchased it from me. I wanted it abundantly clear that this transaction was no different than if the car was listed on Ebay, CL, the newspaper, or any other classifieds that can be found anywhere.

I don't want you trying to demean this community based on a private sale.

[QUOTE=Stuart Adams;242736]Kinda like taking a foxy lady home from a bar and once home you find out she has a bigger shlong than you!!/QUOTE]

To Funny! You would be like WTF... :wow:

That would surely scare you for life.

Chris at what point do you call it and start replacing panels:question: Man those channels where the molding tabs sit don't look to good :_paranoid And the roof looks like a disaster....

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Originally Posted by DOOM (Post 242746)

Chris at what point do you call it and start replacing panels:question: Man those channels where the molding tabs sit don't look to good :_paranoid And the roof looks like a disaster....

roof coming next loading now and as you know that is a hard call to make because just when you think ok I have it all worked out you find more and it cost you twice as much to fix as it would have to replace. That as you know is the key to a quick and good build.

There was so much rust in the roof it was just easier to cut it off and start over with a new skin from Goodmark.

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whoever had the bright idea to put a top on these where water can sit and cause rust should have been taken out back and well you can figure it out if you have ever fixed one of these because of the top.