1967 Corvette at Roadster Shop

[RS-Chris]

With all the latest RS updates it only makes sense to start a new thread on this '67 which arrived a few months ago and has seen some pretty major reconstruction. It can sometimes be easy to forget just how much work can go into a fiberglass car to either modify or bring it back to life with correct gaps, bodylines etc. (You can't hammer and dolly a fiberglass fender or run pieces through a shrinker/stretcher!)

Plans for the car are a fairly mild, factory appearing exterior, enlarged rally style rims and traditional color palette. It will be receiving a FAST TRACK C2 Corvette IRS Chassis, and plans for an LS7 drivetrain.

The car as arrived:







Teardown:





Chassis construction:











The chassis is now one of our production FAST TRACK chassis, details of which you can check out here! : http://www.roadstershop.com/products...rvette-chassis

[WSSix]

Gorgeous as always!

[RS-Chris]

A few color options and an idea of how the wheels will look:



With the chassis done, work commences on the body. Peeling back the outer layers, reveals quite a bit of prior body damage, cracks, cavities etc.









Fab on the rearward floor and trans tunnel. (NB: we dont normally do the mini-trucker grinder treatment on our sheetmetal: in this case, it's to give the sheetmetal 'tooth' and help the bonding of the new glass!)









No chopper guns here!

[RS-Chris]

Underside and rearward floor:











Smoothing the firewall and removing factory apertures.

[strtcar]

Nice build, I like that yellow color in the drawings.

[RS-Chris]

Old glass front and the new replacement behind:







Quarter panel repair. (The full gallery on our site shows more of the many repairs were needed to the body - http://www.roadstershop.com/current-.../1966-corvette)



And beginning to resemble a Corvette once more:

[KPC67]

anything and everything your guys touch turns into gold!

[coolwelder62]

Just another Amazing Build. The fiberglass floor work is really cool.