69 FASTBACK (project 57)

[aussiebj]

I took advantage of the nice day and pushed the car outside for some pics..hopefully it will be off to the body shop in three weeks...here ya go...

[65 347]

looks good, can't wait to see this finished

[aussiebj]

1-24-10....well the car is finally all together...worked on the inner structure under the rear seat..shaved the door handle on the pass side...finished up the trunk sheet metal and sat the tank in there.....removed the rear to finish welding it up and make some gussets for it as well..now for underneath clean up ,seam seal and get it ready for the Lizard skin undercoating...here are som pics....
under seat in work

and welded up

Fuel Tank in

Rear end gussets

[aussiebj]

some more pics
Pass Inner fender in

Pass door shaved

[aussiebj]

Here are some pics just to show that u dont need high tech tools to build a car this is what i use

Cardboard flat sheet metal and Hand tools



My high tech bender

[aussiebj]

2-17-10 updates ...the car has been completely taken back apart to finish all the welding..as well as paint for all the indivdual components..the underside is almost ready for the Lizard skin coating..
Here is the underside before paint

Rear end painted and assembled.

[aussiebj]

I also worked on installing the radiator..i bought the biggest radiator i could get

made fill in pieces to clean up the eng bay

had to go down into the frame and box it up.

[70rs]

That is a HUGE radiator!

The project is moving along nice.

[waynieZ]

Nice progress. The rear end looks great,and that radiator should keep it cool.

[aussiebj]

2-22-10 finished up majority of the interior metal work then seam sealed it and installed Fat Mat sound deadner....working on finishing up all the under carrige metal work getting ready for the Lizard skin coating..this beast will be quite inside..also started the mock up of the side exhaust..check out the pics..
Fat Matt installed

New style side exhaust..