1971 Firebird build thread

[67goatman455]

blast first, then buy yourself a small blaster for any cavities or touch ups down the road. You have no idea how much bondo could be lurking, i had way more on my car than i ever thought. just look at my build thread.

[ccm399]

Agreed on the bondo hiding... Thanks Scott.

I might have to see about making a table and mounting her to it then proceed cutting her up. In looking at pics on this site and others I have no idea how I would attach the car to the table though. The rockers are needing replaced and the whole floor is getting removed as it the tail panel. That doesn't leave much to attach to a table.

I think I will be able to sneak out there tomorrow for some time and continue the process. I'll figure something out.

More soon.

Chris

[ccm399]

Well we all knew this was coming...







I see that Goodmark offers this panel so that's good. The door jams on the other hand... not so much (so far in my searching).

Chris

[ccm399]

So a was able to work on the car for a couple hours on Saturday. I cut out the panel with the trunk hinges on it (shown in the previous pics). On the plus side the rot pretty much stopped with the top panel the inner panel is OK!

I also made some spacers to start to figure out the flush mounting of the rear glass. Looks like about 1/2 - 5/8" should do the trick. I may go ahead and make a new outer panel from scratch as I think I am going to re-work the hinge area and filler panel areas anyway.

I will try to get some pics tonight.

Chris

[ccm399]

Ok so bigger delay on the pics than I thought... Been working on a porting side job so not a lot of time to post pics.

Small amount of progress though.





The reviews on the HF spot weld cutter are right. This little tool works great!

[ccm399]

Starting to get an idea on the flush mounting of the glass. Looks like 9/16 or 5/8" should do the trick (preliminary work so far).

[streetbird]

new sheet metal soon?