63 Biscayne

[renegade6]

I finally finished up the front bumper, much easier and I'm much happier with how it came out compared to the rear one.

Now, the rear...I have the center section complete and I'm happy with it but, not really wild about how the ends are lining up. Part of it is because the center section is so bent therefore; I ordered another one.

Always open to suggestions.

[renegade6]

I've finally had some time to finish tearing it down. Almost complete minus some extra junk in the trunk...

I found the first of what I'm sure is going to be a lot of bondo around the B pillar and I'm open to suggestions on how to fix it.

Because of the cold weather, I can't drop it off at the media blaster yet so, figured I would use the time to start filling in the myriad of holes in the firewall.

[gearheads78]

Going to be a sweet car. I've got a big ol' car I'll be working on soon too.

[renegade6]

I've always had a thing for B body cars. This will make the 4th one I've owned (84 Impala, 95 Impala SS and 94 Caprice).

I've had some time to work on filling holes in the dash, only thing left here is filling in the speaker grill.

[renegade6]

I've done a bit more to it. Filled some more on the dash and pretty much fixed the trunk lock hole. Found a bit more rust along the trunk weatherstrip channel but, nothing that can't be fixed by brazing.

[tubbed69]

thats gonna be one cool ride,great job so far

[renegade6]

Finally got some time off of work to drop it off to get it stripped and pick up my front end pieces that have already been blasted. Not too much rust and only one big dent that I didn't expect. Looks like I need to order some fender bottom patches. Surprisingly, there were some pinholes near the top of the fender (along the inside edge) but, a little brazing and those are taken care of.

[renegade6]

Have had some extended time of work, something that I haven't had in about eight or nine years. I took advantage of it and spent quite a bit of time on the car.

Prior to this, I primered the fenders and did some repairs to them. I was able to get a lot of the dents out without any filler but, not the case for all of them.

Also, was able to get it blasted using the dustless blasting method. Each of the methods have their advantages and except for one area on the trunk lid, ended up with zero warpage however, I did have to deal with a bunch of flash rust. As it sits now, it is just about all epoxy primed using SPI epoxy with a bit of reducer. Intent was just to get something on it to keep it from flash rusting.

I also made a mock up of a 6L90E transmission so, that I have something to go off of when I build my floors and transmission tunnel. I used welding rod and brazed it together to get an outline.

Next order of business is building the floors and making the mini-tubs.

Pictures follow:

[renegade6]

Here are the pictures during and after the blasting.

[WSSix]

I'm sorry I've missed this thread. I love seeing these big cars built up nicely. I really like the direction you're headed with this one. Good luck!