1967 Corvette at Roadster Shop
 

With all the latest RS updates it only makes sense to start a new thread on this '67 which arrived a few months ago and has seen some pretty major reconstruction. It can sometimes be easy to forget just how much work can go into a fiberglass car to either modify or bring it back to life with correct gaps, bodylines etc. (You can't hammer and dolly a fiberglass fender or run pieces through a shrinker/stretcher!)

Plans for the car are a fairly mild, factory appearing exterior, enlarged rally style rims and traditional color palette. It will be receiving a FAST TRACK C2 Corvette IRS Chassis, and plans for an LS7 drivetrain.

The car as arrived:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8323/8...fd898f12_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8466/8...322c4bfe_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8231/8...a8ed374f_b.jpg

Teardown:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8217/8...23ef82a3_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8075/8...1f56d36e_b.jpg

Chassis construction:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8237/8...171fc728_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8472/8...ebff988e_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8468/8...f4a4808d_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8368/8...3749fdcb_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8080/8...fa605eb6_b.jpg

The chassis is now one of our production FAST TRACK chassis, details of which you can check out here! : http://www.roadstershop.com/products...rvette-chassis

Gorgeous as always!

A few color options and an idea of how the wheels will look:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8085/8...403aef36_b.jpg

With the chassis done, work commences on the body. Peeling back the outer layers, reveals quite a bit of prior body damage, cracks, cavities etc.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8211/8...f86ec96a_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8223/8...5a383f16_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8053/8...82dd5a79_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8370/8...d4671be7_b.jpg

Fab on the rearward floor and trans tunnel. (NB: we dont normally do the mini-trucker grinder treatment on our sheetmetal: in this case, it's to give the sheetmetal 'tooth' and help the bonding of the new glass!)

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8329/8...af4f9a73_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8373/8...5a9100b1_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8055/8...7b504757_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8235/8...02eb677e_b.jpg

No chopper guns here!

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8195/8...08dc20fa_b.jpg

Underside and rearward floor:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8085/8...86da41b3_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8071/8...73958fa9_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8325/8...e65ea1a4_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8378/8...40d23895_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8508/8...2d974847_b.jpg

Smoothing the firewall and removing factory apertures.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8076/8...c24d0980_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8046/8...b927e4ee_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8087/8...1d22ab06_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8351/8...7f881927_b.jpg

Nice build, I like that yellow color in the drawings.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8043/8...c2ae88af_b.jpg

Old glass front and the new replacement behind:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8505/8...1ddfa243_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8095/8...e3bfa3ae_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8355/8...f6827cb6_b.jpg

Quarter panel repair. (The full gallery on our site shows more of the many repairs were needed to the body - http://www.roadstershop.com/current-.../1966-corvette)

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8186/8...39414063_b.jpg

And beginning to resemble a Corvette once more:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8183/8...cc7e7040_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8516/8...68e85f51_b.jpg

anything and everything your guys touch turns into gold!

Just another Amazing Build.:thumbsup: The fiberglass floor work is really cool.

:hail: :hail: :hail: :hail: :hail: :hail:
:bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow:

Wow that floor looks sooooo factory!

Red is always a great Corvette color....



http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...tte/file-3.jpg



But then again -- my first one was Silver....


http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...vette/file.jpg



But then again -- an Ermine white coupe looks clean....
Steve Frisbee painted this in lacquer in a two car garage 30 years ago... It still only has 34K original miles



http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...tte/file-2.jpg



But I've had Blue that I liked too....



http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...tte/file-7.jpg



The only yellow on a Corvette has to be factory Sunfire Yellow... black stinger...