'67 Chevy II Project

[wiedemab]

I've said that this will be a race capable street street car --or the other way around...not sure.

The plan is pretty standard.

DSE Catalog for Chevy II
LS powertrain TBD
T56 Magnum and other drivetrain goodies from Bowler
C6Z06 brakes to start with
Pretty stripped down minimal interior
Full Cage
Blah, blah, blah

I bought the car for really cheap, knowing fully that it was a beat up, rusty old drag car from the midwest and would need just about every panel...but it was cheap and I like to do fab work, so here we go.

Here is what I started with.

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Here it is when I brought it home and started to tear into it --- it was even more rusty than I thought.........are they ever less rusty?





Let the tear down begin

[wiedemab]

Forklift is a must have for working by yourself!!



Skip over a bunch of pictures of me simply documenting how rusty it is and here it is on the nice frame table that Billy from B&B Classics hooked me up with.

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Here are few of the bracing I started with on the body. Not the prettiest tubing, but I had it laying around.

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Rear framerail locators (these will be needed later) and help support the body.



Supporting it as the rockers so that I can start removing the floors.

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Floors after I got to them with the plasma cutter.




Fitting up some 2X5" 1/8" wall tubing that will be tied into the inner rockers (new inner and outer rockers). This is an idea that I blatantly stole from DSE. They did this on Cheryl Herrick's car.

[tommycomfort]

Can't believe that I haven't been subscribed to this from the start! Am now!

[wiedemab]

Tom - now that I know you're watching...I'll get back to work on it!!

I have a few more update pics to get posted - I'll try to do so this week. Nothing major, but little bits of progress.

I also bought a big pile of 4130. I may try to build some components of the cage prior to putting sheet metal back on to allow for easier access for welding.

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Got the tubs all final welded and then put them in SPI epoxy. I taped off the areas that will be welded and used weld-thru (I missed a few though and had to grind the primer back off later before welding the quarters on!





Measured the off the centerline and used my laser to locate from. Kind of neat when it all lined up with a factory hole in the firewall! The laser works really well because is projects a line all the way to the back.

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Again - using the laser to locate brackets. Some of the stuff that you may noticed needs to be final welded in the pics is because I'm going to wait and final weld it when it's upside down on the rotisserie (call me lazy!)



A lot of times, I'm working by myself and I also don't have the factory front leaf spring perches to locate the front link bracket from, I decided to fixture them up at the correct width and weld them to a piece of tubing (easier for me to hold in place. I also used the frame spec dimensions to measure from the rear spring shackle location to where the front mount should be. Just for good measure, Dad and I checked dimension on his stock '67. (yeah, that has been handy from time to time)



Once everything was tacked into place, I wanted to bolt the rear housing in to satisfy my worries that everything was located properly. It was almost dead square and if I remember correctly within a 1/4 side to side (minor panhard adjustment) with the links set right out of the box. I was happy enough with that and proceeded to weld everything in solid. I moved around a lot and kept checking measurements to make sure nothing moved.