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Oooops photobucket is down for maintence. I'll load more tonight to show you where I am at with this resurection. Thanks for looking.

More cutting, drilling and welding
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Once I seen how rusted the wheel arch was I cut it out and replaced it with good solid piece's off of a 4 door.
Now all these piece since they are off of a donor quarter,
they all had to be drilled...

More patch work pix's:
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Well this is the passenger side of the car, patch panel heaven.
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Some finish paint work on the fenders and doors to give me hope that this car will look good:
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So I got sick of welding so I did body work on some of the other panels to get into a new groove.
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Random shots:
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After leveling the car and putting my laser level to work...

More random shots of car apart:

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Here's a shot of it with the quarter panel off, along with some trouble spots found behind it.

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Well I ran into some major issues with this convertible and it set the customer into a bit of a loop, so the vehicle got set aside for quite some time.
Now that I am back to work on it this is what...

I like it it's got a nice tough look to it. Great Job!

Thanks Guy's! As for the power plant I have a 68 Buick GS 400 motor sitting here with dreams of sitting between the wheel wells. And maybe top it off with that fuel injection unit set up from T/A...

Well I changed the rim and tire set up and went with a Buick Turbine wheel off of an older Buick Park Avenue. Just took these last weekend and it looks dam good with the fall folliage.
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Nice Work! Looks good.

Excellent and love those rims...they are Boss 308's right? Those are the ones I want for my Wagon.

I was wondering what you were up to...........Good for you, looks good, can't wait to see it all done.

I would get the right reducer for the shop tempature. I always use a medium reducer for everything I do. But I do keep my shop at 70-75 degree's even during the winter months.

Case and point in...

Best advise is follow manufatures instructions on the label when it comes to the poduct, as for the gun in time you will get the hang of it.

Ok she's all painted and look great!

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Your gonna love that Plus gun it's like a water hose. So be careful and pay attention to flash times in between coats. I love my Plus gun and I use it for clear only. I use the old Devilbiss OMX gun...

Wow,........... what is the range in years of the cars? I would love to come to just walk through that field. Love those kind of graveyards. AWESOME!

Looks good!

The ideal of pushing the overspray out the filters isn't good. I would put fans at the front of your booth and put filters at the rear and on the fans, to pull the air across the booth.

Here is a...

looking good

Reminds me of my rookie days. I never had the make shift garage, I did everything right in the open. Water the ground and away I went. Had a few show winners too. So what color will this be going...

Well kind of,.......... I took the original molding and painted it body color, and polished the piece over the front wheel. Here is a picture of what it looked like this morning. I just have to paint...

Yes pre-mask is the way to go. Head to your local vinyl shop or hobby shop and they will set you up if they have the right equipment. Is that camaro got wider qtrs on it?

Looks good Jeff keep the pix's coming.

Turbocobra: all I can say is, that suxs!

Yeah I checked his progress out as well looks good.

I will post more pix's once I get it back in the shop.
I want to put the new windshield in tomorrow and paint the hood and then I will post more pix's.
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I almost put flames on it but changed my mind after looking at my design for an hour. So glad I did delete them.

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Well here is a collage of pix's of my own wagon. If you need anything explained just ask.

In the beginning:

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Oh I really can't do anything other than once the car is done go back in and spray an oily based product up behind the panel via the trunk.

As for my Wagon I will start another thread.

Well since the car is still in limbo none of that work has been done yet. Nothing is welded on yet. I always sandblast and epoxy all rusted areas. I will post pix's of what I do once the customer...

Looks like you got our hands full. And he better have deep pockets to do that beast.

Your Welcome, to be that young and getting deep into a project like that, shows me you love what you do. I believe you can do anything you put your mind too.

Your doing an awesome job, I applaud you. I started my autobody carrer when I was in 10th grade and had one of those siphon blasters. I saved up the money and bought a pressure blaster as time went...

I have to admit if my store screws up they always give me the paint to redo, but it never covers my time. If I know I am running out of paint, I will save what I have left and buy more. The when I...

Nice work Jeff. What's next on your agenda?

Just a good example of how the teacher was there for the money not to teach the right way to do it. Or the kid got lazy. Keep the pix's coming looks real good. Love the engine set up.:oath:

Good choice and post pix's when there done with it I would love to see it. I'm a Buick Riviera Lover from way back. My dad use to own 3 of them at once.

Well the GS project got put on hold since the customer had to buy a bunch of parts. So hopefully it will be back in the shop soon, not this coming week but the week after.

So since there is no...

Nice Job what company's product did you spray? Dupont? PPG? Valspar? Sikkens? Diamont? Shermin Williams?



I was wondering where you were.:oath:

Yeah you can use any automotive paint to paint your engine. I used House of Kolor one time. Never took a pix, but it looked dam good when it returned a few years later.

Same goes for the hood and one of the fenders, strippr and sanding were in order:
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Now after the blasting and the grinding was done I sanded and did some cutting:
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OK a quick little photo update:

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