Project 'Too Much': 1969 P1800S - soon to be P1800 GT

[daemon2]

The rendering arrived, thanks to Shawn@Mascoll Designs!
I have taken some cues from the 2009 Voxx rendering, its a shame no one has built that car.

I wanted more width and I think it came together very well.

[Iamtheonlyreal1]

I am building that car (Project Changling)... LOL I have done about everything, and am hitting about 90 percent of the Vox Rendition. My glass company has started on the full glass treatment, including the full greenhouse roof/back glass and quarter glasses, and that should put the rendtions reality over the top..

Your rendition is very very cool, and you definitely got the correct stance. But you are going to find the front end is off a bit.. I ran into alot of issue with the front nose of this car, and the Vox Rendition.. There are so many compound curves that have to be dealt with, and in the drawing it is much easier than in reality, because the compound curves are not easy to translate in the drawing..

One question, do you plan on buiding up the trunk to surface? In the rendition, it is more squared off, and doest match up with the actual compound curve of the factory body. It looks as though you built up the trunk panel, to take away from the height of the fins?

[daemon2]

definately a lot of compound curves on this car, you're right. The deck lid may come up, I will see how things look back there after I fit the wheels in.
Thanks for the comments.

[daemon2]

One of my most frustrating weekends with the car since I got the thing. Finished some work on the rear crossmember but found more rust inside the rear rocker that I have to deal with now.
I suppose the good news is it will all be solid after I replace everything....

[daemon2]

I was letting the rust get to me then I found this:



It looks like this one failed in the same places that I am fixing rust issues now on mine.

This weekend I hope to finish the front clip and possibly gets the front brakes and suspension put on before fitting it to the car.

I will have to re-enforce my sills and have a few ideas on how to approach this, more pics to come in a few days hopefully.

This is a P1800e, looks kinda cool:

[daemon2]

I made some progress on the front clip the past two weekends. I have about 20 hours into this part of the car now, still need to complete suspension mounts and complete the attachment points.

Nice big 6 pots up front.

The rack just fits, I may have to alter the mounts a bit to make sure the dust covers don't wear against the frame and there's enough clearance for the engine.

I was disappointed that the rack didn't come with the bushings for installation...


And an overall look, the rear crossmember is underway as well - you can see it just behind the front clip here:


Anyone know where I can get the C4 upper bolt spacers?

[daemon2]

A few small updates, I will work on getting some photo's a little further away from the car soon to give an overall look at how its coming along.

The brakes are all lockwired, it seems a shame to hide details like this:




The frame welds are looking pretty good, again don't really want to cover these up after appreciating the effort that went into it




I was not looking forward to opening up the panels, after the frustration of seeing all the patch work under bondo I wasn't sure what I would find here. It turned out really well though, not the disaster I was expecting at all.


I am finishing up the frame and moving into the rear body work now, I did a quick outline of the rear fender flares and will start work on a template so I can get both sides the same. The rear wheel is still sitting below ride height in this image, I didn't want to remove too much metal before deciding how to handle the new arches.
The wheel looks funny sticking out here now but once the green tape and tire totes are removed it won't appear to stick out so much.
Comments appreciated!