Royal Purple / V8TV Royal Sport 69 Camaro Project Update

[V8TV]

We had the Royal Sport '69 Camaro stripped by Imperial Blasting Technologies... Wally's crew did a fantastic job. We were worried that nothing would come back, as the car's pretty rusty on the bottom. Luckily, our fears were unfounded and we got a whole car back! The media blast job came out really nice, but it revealed some new secrets and made the obvious even more obvious. It's pretty amazing what kind of "innovations" people come up with when they're hacking a body together with pop rivets and body filler! We do have some substantial panel replacement to do, and we're going to cover it all on our show between now and SEMA.

- Kevin Oeste, spending some long nights in the shop!

[XcYZ]

Pop rivets, nice.

[907rs]

I was just wondering about this car the other day. Good to see some progress, Kevin. I need to ditch the cable and get the dish!

[V8TV]

Everyone loves pop rivets.... (especially Momma Rivets!)

[zbugger]

That wheel tub looks like a bad kindergarten paper mache project. I look forward to seeing updates again as I don't have the ability to watch the show. I would if I could though. I'm addicted to all things automotive....... It's sad, really.

[V8TV]

The first shot is the car on the Autotwirler immediately post media blasting at Imperial Blasting. They did a fantastic job stripping the car, but the remains weren’t too nice.

The following details show the patched-in floor, the inner rear driver structure we have to reconstruct, and the state of the cowl and front of the rocker panels.

After seeing this, we decided to blow the car apart and make it right…

[Sales@Dutchboys]

Like the Autotwirler ..Were looking at picking one up at Columbus...

-Paul

[lil427z]

the old girl is rough. keep up the cood work.
rick k

[V8TV]

To reconstruct the Camaro’s tub, we had to determine what (if any) of the original structure we were going to reuse. This came down to a couple brackets, inner structures, and the windshield frame. We shot the whole mess in PPG DP-90 Epoxy primer to keep it from rusting…which seems kind of ironic now that I think about it… and then we systematically drilled out every spot weld in the back half of the car to disassemble the tub.

These shots show the passenger quarter panel removed, and then the front half of the car on stands. We have to replace the dash, inner and outer cowl, and side cowl panels, but we’re going to keep the original structure together seeing that it’s already the correct dimensions. Then we’re going to replace each panel individually, creating a new front body section. Then, we’re going to transfer that to the new body structure…