Fesler Built 1969 Camaro Black Knight Project Underway

[fesler]

new interior will be going in the next few weeks so we will post a bunch of shots of that for you guys. We are finishing up the full system and its finished. We got over 725HP so far and its fast

[tones2SS]

Originally Posted by fesler

new interior will be going in the next few weeks so we will post a bunch of shots of that for you guys. We are finishing up the full system and its finished. We got over 725HP so far and its fast

Would love to see this car when done Chris. Thanks!

[BillyBobL71]

Chris,

Always a treat to see new pics of your builds. You guys do incredible work. Love the black. Can you elaborate as to exactly what black it is?

Thanks,
Bill

[Revved]

Being in this business for a while you come to learn that when restoring a 40+ year old car like this that everything is a judgement call and that is where the experience of dealing with cars much worse than this comes into play. It's always easy to second guess someone from some pics over the internet but unless you are the guy standing there with the grinder and welder with the job of addressing that panel you aren't the one to be diagnosing what to do. All of the patch work his guys did seems proper for what can be seen in the pics and from watching the metal work that has come out of Fesler over the last few years I'm not one to question why they did or didn't replace a panel.

And don't get caught up in the "I don't want Bondo" on my car fallicy. If you media blasted a 2011 brand new car off from the assembly floor you will find some form of body filler- typcially at panel joints. It is meant to smooth imperfections on metal work, hide welds, and generally make everything look pefect before those coats of primer and paint are laid out. Anything that is not perfectly smoothed before paint will not be perfectly smooth after paint. The reason Bondo has such a bad name is that too many people, either purposly or out of stupidity, have decided to use it as a shaping material and not a finishing material. I belive ICAR teaches that It should be no more than 1/8" maximum thickness.

The car looks great guys- I'll see it here in a few days at SEMA!!

[Richio1]

Chris- what ever happend with this project? Havent seen any updates in a long while. Did it get completed and where can we see more about it?

[mrbigblock]

Great attention to detail as usual.