70 Camaro - Boise, Idaho

[CJD Automotive]

Great work and looks fantastic. Thanks for sharing the progress.

[syborg tt]

Originally Posted by Goosesdad

A bit more progress on the mock up of the molds. Placement of the side AC vents proved a little challenging. With the door bars and the lowered seats, really needed to keep a space for your feet to move through without having to pull your knees all the way up to your chin! Snaked the ducts between the roll bar and the A-pillar. So, had to keep them up a little higher than planned but as Curtis says (well, really all of us)...form meets function. Had my poor friends climb in and out of this thing about 50 times so I could watch and learn.

This car just keeps getting better and better and better.

[Mad_Monte_Carlo]

Very nice work, I'm looking forward to seeing it completed. What kind of foam are you using to make your molds?

[Woodsie]

I don’t know how I managed to miss this thread until now. Just read it every bit of it. Like a great book that you can’t make yourself put down. Absolutely incredible work. I can’t wait to see more.

**I just realized that was my first post. Wow, been lurking around for a while.

[Goosesdad]

Originally Posted by Mad_Monte_Carlo

Very nice work, I'm looking forward to seeing it completed. What kind of foam are you using to make your molds?

Just spray insulation foam. Sorry for the late response!

[IMPALAMAN1]

after it is done where are you going to run it in ID? or traveling with it.

[MODO Innovations]

Patiently waiting for more update pictures.

[214Chevy]

Originally Posted by MODO Innovations

Patiently waiting for more update pictures.

....yeah me too!!

[Goosesdad]

Originally Posted by IMPALAMAN1

after it is done where are you going to run it in ID? or traveling with it.

Definitely travelling, no real track options here just yet. Portland and Salt Lake are close enough but certainly hit others/Optima.

[Goosesdad]

Originally Posted by 214Chevy

....yeah me too!!

Originally Posted by MODO Innovations

Patiently waiting for more update pictures.

Hi Guys - thanks for the interest!!
Long story, but in short, my wife has always wanted an pre-40's truck and a friend was selling this 39' Ford, so we bought it and I started down doing it in parallel with the Camaro. That, of course, wasn't a recipe for success and given that the original plan was to leave the body on the '39 completely alone, I planned on a 4-5 month project if I fully concentrated on it. So , put the Camaro in the garage and focused fully on the truck. Of course the project morphed, but should be done in the next 2 months. Patina Paint job is 90% done, cab is off to the interior guy this week and 90% of the truck has already been test fit.

Back to the Camaro in November and going to hit it hard.

I have been working with an artist on the artwork for the Camaro Project Name, should have that soon. Otherwise, it's collecting a bit of dust for a couple more months.







Here is the homemade patina paint job we are doing. Cavalry Blue with colored acids for the patina, with matte clear on top. Yep, I know, I've put clear on top of "rust/oxidation" which will clearly fail someday, maybe soon. We knew it would a science project but Lisa really likes the patina look, she just couldn't love the original green. So after a fair bit of metal work (rust repair, we left some of the dents to , we sandblasted the entire truck, masked off some strategic areas, epoxied the areas that would be blue, sprayed the blue, feathered the edges with a DA, used acids for the patina, then cleared it.