Drip rail shaving on a first gen? - Lateral-g Forums

67rstbkt · #1 01-19-2008, 02:42 PM

Has anyone here ever shaved off the drip rails on a first gen? I'm doing up a 67 Firebird and allready started cutting off the drip rails. I'm hoping that I'm going about this the right way. Are there any pics out there? Thanks.

monza · #2 01-19-2008, 02:54 PM

Lots of examples around best to do a search, here is a nice one...

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Originally Posted by 96z28ss

If you can't find some "how to do's" or build pics on a search someone will offer some advice I'm sure.

rjsjea · #3 01-19-2008, 03:17 PM

Not a first gen, but did it on my Demon. I cut about 3-4" at a time then welded, grind,weld,grind,cut,weld,grind.............you get the idea, it was time consuming and was the first time doing it.

cetchup · #4 01-19-2008, 03:18 PM

I don't have pics. , but a quik trik I have used for a clean look is simply hammer/dolly the vertical lip over flat towards the roof. Dress smooth
with a body grinder,radius the ends nice,apply epoxy and then create/fill
entire length with a small amount of reinforced polyester filler . Use your finger to make an even radius. Paint it

67rstbkt · #5 01-20-2008, 12:24 PM

Thanks for the tips, that's the general direction I was heading with this. Does anyone else have any in progress pics on a first gen F-body?

**KPC67** · #6 01-20-2008, 09:30 PM

https://lateral-g.net/forums/show...ght=gutterless
Here check this out.
I am in the other boat. I need a set of drip rails, does anyone know if you can buy them?

67rstbkt · #7 01-20-2008, 10:28 PM

Thanks, that's awesome. I think I saw some drip rails on ebay recently, but am unsure. I believe they came up on a search under 1967 Firebird.

**KPC67** · #8 01-20-2008, 11:16 PM

Cool, I found them there on e-bay! Thanks.
Kevin

hifi875 · #9 01-22-2008, 09:13 PM

had mine done 2yrs ago, but not all the way down. there is still a outline of the driprail so that it still looks there but when you look closely it isn't.

redfire69 · #10 01-24-2008, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by 67rstbkt

Thanks, that's awesome. I think I saw some drip rails on ebay recently, but am unsure. I believe they came up on a search under 1967 Firebird.

For anyone else looking, they re-pop these now. Ricks has them for $185 for the pair. They are designed to weld onto the body **under** the roof and quarter panels.

Ron

http://www.rickscamaros.com/product....dept%5Fid=3330