Hi folks,
In at the shop we have a 1968 Camaro! Initial plans were to just align the body panels and paint. But after further investigations we found the car was a lot of body fill over rust and rough repairs. Very far from final paint to make this a proper restoration. Time to make this one right!
Came to us in primer
Panel alignment was very off from the last "body shop"
Well this escalated quickly!
This car was born with a vinyl roof and sometime ago it was removed and some ruct repair was done,
Roof skin rotted,
So we started with removing the trunk filler piece,
Roof skin removed,
More nastyness,
So then it decided to put it up on the frame table,
Here it was noticed how bad the right rear corner was bent up so we did a pull down to straighten it up. You can see we went past center knowing it would spring back up.
This is the right rear support behind the wheel tub, notice the bend lol,
Left side was good,
So after the frame was sorted we installed the new floor pan,
And we installed a minitub kit from Detroit Steel,
so now to finish the skins and start the bodywork!
cheers
68 Camaro mucho project!
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Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement.
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Ouch!
I had one similar to that. A '65 Buick Special Convertible: Once you removed the roof skin, did you have to repair any structure? 1968 Coronet R/T
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Nasty! Yes we had to weld in a few patches to the inner structure and get new drip rails. cheers Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement.
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I have a '68 Camaro coming for complete restoration soon. Fortunately it is a California car and has been fairly well taken care of (from what I am being told).
Non-matching numbers car that the woman wants slightly customized. 1968 Coronet R/T
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Nice, always strive to get the southern cars lol! cheers Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement.
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It still always amazes me that level of work can be done. Very impressive!
I love reading through your posts. Do you have an estimate of how many man-hours is in that car so far? Sent by the random thoughts from the voices in my head...
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The Fun part! AND the most important part of a Great Paint job. I like to tell people that want to get into this stuff If you don't like Sanding by HAND this hobby is not for you! Dennis B.
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