Looking good.

 

Im going down to the shop tonight to start working on the roll pan. Ill hopefully have pictures up tonight of the progress

 

dude, that black car is sick

 

So we got down to the shop tonight and got it all welded up. Its gonna look sick!

He started with welding the reinforcement (1/4" square tubing) and then pieced the panels on.

Hopefully tomorrow we will be able to finish the rear end with the fiberglass filler and making it all smooth. Im really excited to see how it all is gonna look and this is one huge step for this car.

I also realized I'll have to move the exhaust back about 2-3 inches to make it flush, but thats ok with me.

Major props to my friend Brian. He is really impressing me with all of this.

 

Here's the pics:

 

 

The guy behind it all

 

Looks like it starting to come together. Please tell me your going to be painting the inside of all that so it doesn't rot out from under you in a few years

 

looking good ... I've always been a fan of that black car ... but if you ever get rear ended, then you're done for it.

 

yeah we will be. we are able to spray it from inside the car. But thanks anyways. I know i wouldn't have thought of that but thankfully the guy who is doing it all knows what he's doing

 

yeah i thought about that already and if i ever did get hit hard enough, even with the bumper it would still be an issue. But I'll be switching to full coverage on my insurance after i get it painted

 

can we say pinto action :P Looks sharp!

 

That dent came out hella good! The rear should look sweet once its done, cant wait to see the final product.

 

Cool, yea I figured if your roomate is that good at this stuff he would be making sure to coat everything really well. I've done so much rust repair and restoration on these cars over the last 7 years I'm always on the lookout for possibly rust haha

 

yeah....but at least it looks cooler?:P These cars are death traps anyways so might as well go down in flames?

 

So we went down to the shop again tonight and worked on the roll pan. We also started working on filling in the side markers, antenna, and weld up the emblem holes. Its starting to look good and tomorrow we are going to work on it more.

Here's the pictures of today's work.

 

and some more!





and here's what its gonna look like!

 

hey tal where did u get that pic of that car its hott u got any more u the back of ur car looks real good nice job for real

 

Im not sure. I found it a few years ago and saved it and now i am finally able to get it done. Im heading down to the shop soon so i'll have more pictures by tonight

 

Nice thread I am going to be doing this to the SBC FB so it came at the perfect time, keep up with the great pics.....Thanks

 

very nice work.

 

So all the major metal work is done....I think... All the patch panels and emblem holes are filled. I started looking at the front end and starting wondering what I could do with that. We might fab up a front air dam/spoiler....we'll see...

So here's the pictures of today and what it should look like soon!

 

It's looking really good so far. The only problem I see with the roll pan is with the flat panels all welded in, it makes it look too flat instead of curving with the rear. Everything looks pretty good though and looks like top notch work

 

make me want to make a roll pan, only problem is im missing a peice of the lower part about a foot long XD. when i took the bumper strips off the sides, it bent the crap out my doors, did you have that problem?

 

So we started the fiberglass. The rear has its rough shape and body filler will take care of the rest. Its really starting to look good. Just a few more weeks of bodywork and we'll be ready for paint