69 Custom Camaro
 

My name is Tig and live in St. Petersburg, Florida.

I found my project car in the back of a body shop that was redoing my '83 CJ7 Laredo. It had been sitting there for a couple of years under dust. I moved it across the street to another body shop, GM Muscle. There..the project began. It was already stripped to bare metal...chemically, but we went ahead and had it media blasted. There was a good amount of rust..but luckily the rust was in all the RIGHT places. Since then we have replaced all...i repeat ALL the sheetmetal...minus the roof and firewall. We went with the new one piece floor, full quarters, fenders, complete doors, tailpan, trunkpan, trunk lid and hood. We POR15 the inside of the floors..and the bottom of the inside of the doors...and Rhino lined the complete bottom of the car. Atm they are working on the gaps. Next it will go to paint. We are painting her Mitsubishi Sunset Pearl...with a white pearl bumble bee stripe.

I have a 425hp 350 sitting, waiting to go in, with an additional 100 shot NOS system. I also went with a TH700r4. The camaro had a 12 bolt posi rearend with 411 gears...so we are going to keep that. I am still deciding on whether or not to put the factory seats back in. I have the original seats...and they are in almost excellent condition. But, GM Muscle has a set of 4th gen seats and console, we may end up going with.

We are going to use the Guldstrand mod for the front suspension, till i can afford something better. I purchased the taillights, side markers and indicator lights from Marquez Design..and i purchased the 6speed windshield wiper motor from DSE..and i cant wait to see them on my beast. As soon as i figure out how to post pictures...i'll post them

Tig69SS

Very cool!

Another Florida Lat-G guy!

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Sounds like a cool project!

Send those pics over to me, and I'll get them posted sometime today.

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Welcome, get us some pics!! :D


Kurt





www.autokraft.org

Welcome from over the bridge (Bradenton, FL). Cant wait to see some build pics.

Here are the pics that Tig sent. Can't wait to see more when it's further along.

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I wanted to explain the pictures a little bit. First off.. these pictures are during the first phase...the structural part. I have more recent pictures...just dont have access to the camera yet.

The first picture is how i found the car..under all the dust.

The second picture shows the skins that were originally on the car. They were put on pretty well...i just decided i wanted full quarters on the car..didnt want someone to lean against the quarter panel ...and crack the filler on the skins welds.

The third picture shows the car with the floors cut out.

And the forth picture shows the quarters cut out ...and the wheel wells being welded in.

I'll send more pictures when i get them back.

Welcome to the forum Tig.

Welcome! That's a project! :thumbsup:

Got your hands full, enjoy, and welcome aboard....