Mr. Brownstone - 69 PT Camaro

[Richio1]

Went by yesterday and they were just getting ready to pull it all apart after the final test fit. They had to do some massaging of the bumper/grille surround. As seen in one of the pics above the bumper cracked in the center while being moved around so they had to reinforce and refinish.

They started dis assembly yesterday and will be final priming the surround as it heads to the booth. We are closer than we have ever been so pretty excited to see color on her soon.

Sorry for the crappy cell phone pics. The surround fits awesome, cant even tell it is hand made. Props to Chris & Juan for spending so much time on the fit and finish.



FWIW, the headlight doors are just sitting in there not bolted in so in the picture they sagging a little.



Hard to tell but in person it is obvious. Chris spend a ton of time on the rockers cleaning them up.

[snappytravis]

Originally Posted by Rick D

Looking good Jeff, but lookimg at the pictures I see you are missing the trunk gutters on both side for the qtrs?? It's what holds the weather striping in place?? Unless you guys came up with a different way to hold them in place, you will want those on before you paint as the are body color.

Guess they can use panel bond to install them now

[Rick D]

Looks great Jeff your getting closer!!

Originally Posted by snappytravis

Guess they can use panel bond to install them now

Travis, yes they can panel bond them on but two issues with that, first the channels are painted body color and second panel bond is designed for shear strength, the issue that I world have using it in this application is opening and closing the trunk all the time. It might not fail or it might. Don't get me wrong panel bond it very strong but does have its limitation.

[coolwelder62]

Can't wait to see it Painted.

[Richio1]

Originally Posted by Rick D

Looks great Jeff your getting closer!!



Travis, yes they can panel bond them on but two issues with that, first the channels are painted body color and second panel bond is designed for shear strength, the issue that I world have using it in this application is opening and closing the trunk all the time. It might not fail or it might. Don't get me wrong panel bond it very strong but does have its limitation.

Yup they decided to weld them in instead of using the panel bond. Took a little longer but a better result.

Hoping for some color this week.

[Richio1]

Well no color this week. Went up to the shop today hoping they would painting. Unfortunately they weren't but at least they had 4 guys from the body shop doing the final prep work, so that was a good thing.

Hopefully next week....

The waiting is killing me but would rather have it done right the first time then have to redo it.

[Richio1]

It's been a long road but this week we hit a huge milestone... Chris got her shot.... Yeee haaa

[Matt@BOS]

Nice! Gotta love paint booth pictures. Way to go Jeff!

Matt

[Richio1]

Thanks Matt. Can't wait to see it out in the sun.

Next week.

[Rick D]

WOW awesome Jeff!!!