Brendon's '67 Firebird thread

[Ron in SoCal]

Sick Bro. Quarter stretch in your driveway..

[Tuske427]

Originally Posted by Ron in SoCal

Sick Bro. Quarter stretch in your driveway..

thanks!

[geberhard]

Brendon awesome work! really dig how it is coming along! I was debating on a 69 rear pannel for the 68, seemed like it could work to help a bit with the width, but after seeing yours I am more inspired!

Killer work, keep it coming!

Gui

[Tuske427]

Originally Posted by geberhard

Brendon awesome work! really dig how it is coming along! I was debating on a 69 rear pannel for the 68, seemed like it could work to help a bit with the width, but after seeing yours I am more inspired!

Killer work, keep it coming!

Gui

Thanks! Yeah, I prefer the earlier taillights over the '69 style. Another option is to get a second tail panel, and splice them together to make it wider. That was my alt plan to make the tail panel wider. The opportunity there is this allows you to move the taillights further apart...

[Chicken Louie]

Awsome Fab Work

I like how your quarters turned out

[Tuske427]

Originally Posted by Chicken Louie

Awsome Fab Work

I like how your quarters turned out

Thank you! I just hope I make the other side match now....

[John510]

Wow. I really need to learn how to weld. The stretched quarters are cool

[Tuske427]

Thanks! I never even welded before having this car. There's a lot I need to learn, too. The paragraph below speaks of one such example I should know already...

This weekend I was able to start on the outer half of the inner wheel housing. Again, not able to leave it alone I had to go and modify it for more room. I trimmed it all nice to fit inside flush to the quarter panel only to weld it in and then see it shrink away. Now I have a nice gap (albeit fairly consistent) so I'll need to fill this in. Hopefully I'll get that taken care of next weekend as well as the trunk extension for the driver side.

I also got the Kore 3 hubs- they look so sweet!

[waynieZ]

Nice job, keep at it it looks good.

[Tuske427]

Thanks, Wayne!

This week I got a little work done and was able to finish up the driver quarter. I added the quarter extension in, added material to the inner bumper structure, and trimmed and added the trunk floor extension.

I used '69 trunk floor extensions thinking they would have more material to work with. I flattened the curved area to maximize material and trimmed it to fit.

On the underside of the wheel well I ended up making a few trim pieces to fill in the gap. this gave me more area to attach to the quarter to. I also added a second wall to the inside of the fender edge for more strength (which I trimmed the recessed step away- I'll be doing this to the remaining ones also)

There is quite a gap on the inside where tail pipes once went. I won't be running my exhaust past the axle so I'm thinking of closing this area off.