Angry Johnny's 69 Camaro Build

[cjfirstgen]

Looks great John!

[Jimbo1367]

I'm sure I missed it somewhere, but what brand body panels did you use? Car is coming together. Should be killer.

thanks,
Jim

[Rodknock]

Originally Posted by waynieZ

Hi John, I just went through your build and YouTube posts, Nice job! You did a lot of nice work. Subscribed!!

Thanks brother. I'm finally getting motivated

Originally Posted by Goosesdad

Great work, looks fantastic!

Thank you!! I appreciate it!!

Originally Posted by cjfirstgen

Looks great John!

Thanks buddy!!

Originally Posted by Jimbo1367

I'm sure I missed it somewhere, but what brand body panels did you use? Car is coming together. Should be killer.

thanks,
Jim

Thanks Jim. I did end up with an AMD passenger fender, and an OEM used driver fender. I also just bought an AMD 4" cowl hood, so I'll have to see how well it fits!

[Rodknock]

Today, I worked on the passenger side rear quarter. I had a lot of holes to weld shut, from a previous slide hammer experience (likely in the 70's) They actually did a decent job of getting the panel pulled out, so I basically just had to close the holes up. I'm not to handy with the welder on sheet metal, or it's just too hard to get it adjusted correctly (old Millermatic 200)

Had a guy tell me to just replace the whole quarter panel, but I just didn't feel it needed to be done. The fit of aftermarket panels sucks so bad, I just didn't want to deal with the headache, plus it would have been way more work that just closing up a few (50) holes. Only took a couple of hours, instead off weeks, for a quarter replacement. Plus the door gaps are perfect, and it's only original once.







Using a brass rod or copper plate behind the holes, helped immensely with keeping me from blowing the sheet metal away like tissue paper.



In some areas, I couldn't get anything behind the hole and it shows (yes Angry Johnny made his presence known



Finally cover up the mess



Geez, it got dark

[waynieZ]

The car looks great! You do nice work.

[Rodknock]

Originally Posted by waynieZ

The car looks great! You do nice work.

Thank you Wayne!! You'll notice I don't do too many close up pics. If I do, it will show all my mistakes