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Discovery of more damage This is underneath the passenger fender where someone made a piss poor repair bonding the skirt back to the fender. Obviously these are all things that anybody even somewhat experienced with Midyear vettes would know to look for. Passenger side. The amount...

2/22/2015 I bought this car from Bedford, PA(fill in the blank yourself of the seller). I was told the body was all original and not molested, "cherry", but after 5 minutes of inspection I have determined that the front upper surround, left fender, and both rear quarters have been replaced...

10/04/2015 Back from paint and assembly has begun.

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8/31/2015 Started dressing up the engine today with KaTech valve covers and coil relocation kit b

8/04/2015 Progress at the paint and body shop 8/12/2015 Body work is complete and car is in filler primer at Luckys restorations.

6/05/2015 I separated the body from the chassis today. All went pretty well until i realized I had forgotten to unhook the transmission wires. Nothing like reaching under a dangling body to disconnect a few plugs. :willy: I'm still waiting on my Nuair body dolly to arrive. It was supposed...

5/27/2015 5 hours today block sanding and starting to fill and rebuild the lines on the front end. Want to know what fenders looks like after someone dogs them out with a DA sander and a low grit paper? Well, here ya go....just a few low spots to fill! I am by no means an expert at bodywork...

5/04/2015 I feel like I am finally making some progress on stripping the paint. I hope to have it more or less completely stripped by the end of the week. I found that whoever painted it last sprayed a crap ton of filler primer directly onto the bare fiberglass and filler in order to make...

5/01/2015 5/01/15 I went through about fifty 80 grit DA discs this week. Fun! Both quarters are officially off, which took about 4 hours a piece slowly working them with a heat gun. After scraping and sanding the paint off of two cars in the last week and removing the quarter panels and...

4/27/2015 I spent 4 hours today removing the passenger quarter panel. The new quarter panel is 1.5" wider, 2" if i trim the lip.

I also started the process of deleting the antenna hole. When I bought the car I could tell that both fenders had been replaced because the repairs were showing through. Once i sanded the paint off i found out why the repairs were showing. There was nothing in the voids except for filler...

4/25/2015 I started to strip the paint and make the necessary repairs to the body this week. 1st stop was fixing where the louver panel and parking lamp panel were protruding out too far. I found that someone had left a chunk of old bonding strip in-between the other bonding strip and...

I'm transferring this thread from the other forum, so I will post dates in bold to indicate the actual timeline of the build. 4/08/2015 I bought this car last week and I'm going to do a quick rebuild of it...well, as quickly as possible. Most of the work done by roadster shop is good, but...

Shipping report

The builder misunderstood what i said about not painting the engine, so I will need to respray it with the correct orange. I had the heads upgraded to 1.6/2.02 valves and we went with a Howards Cams hydraulic roller camshaft. I also purchased a 64-65 winters intake so I could run a quick fuel...

The oil pan was pretty banged up in the front from someone hammering out a dent. Considering the price of high capacity pans, I decided it best to repair this one by filling the dents. Most fillers probably would not hold up to the fluctuation in temperature an oil pan experiences, so i used 3m...

The cam I picked. I think I already mentioned this previously, but I like Howard's retro-fit hydraulic roller cams because the gear is compatible with the stock cast iron distributor gear. My engine builder says this cam with clear the stock style pistons even with the heads upgraded to larger...

The engine builder had the engine for almost two years, which was ok since we were not in a hurry, but still a little excessive.