TheyCallMePancho
03-10-2018, 08:45 AM
Hi Everyone,
So I've been lurking around for about a year now, checking out everyones cool projects, so i figured its time to introduce myself and my car and show. I have a 1970 Camaro RS/SS, 350/350 combo, 12 bolt with 3.08 gears, nothing crazy. The LT1 is out of a 92 Camaro i believe, swapped to a carb'd set up. Has the center bolt vortech heads but havent done much digging into the engine. Pretty sure its a 4bolt main.
I purchased it a little over a year ago from the 2nd owner, really nice guy had a bunch of history to go along with the car on the car, a partial build sheet protect-o-plate things like that. Now the car itself in pretty good shape, the body is pretty straight but it had some major rust issues underneath the front windshield and in the trunk floor so i decided to take it in to get it all fixed and get a full respray because the paint was not in too rough of shape but i figured get it resprayed and do some little things here and there and make it a nice weekend driver. so i thought...
So i live in Southern California, LA to be exact. I find this bodyshop on the westside, has really good reviews, he works on classics so showed me around his shop gave me his pitch he even was working on a 71 Camaro so i figured well this guy knows what he's doing and it seemed pretty good. Ill get it painted and well now this is where hell starts...
The car has been in paint jail for about a year until i recently pulled it from his shop. It was constant BS, always giving me the okie doke, i tried staying patient as i already had money poured into the body and i might as well stick it out. The first body man to work on my car was terrible, i mean body lines gaps all crooked things that were really just unacceptable. The car would sit for a month at a time and not get any work done on it. Finally they hire a really good body man, and he gets me right, he fixes all the rust, the trunk, body lines and gaps get sorted out. This guy is good, really old school, him and i shoot the **** and he always gave it to me straight. At this point its pretty close to paint, and the bodyshop for the life of them cannot match the color to what it was, they sprayed the jams the wrong color, and what they did spray wasnt properly sanded. i was able to pull gunk off the paint and find the old paint still under it. I finally take a really good look at the car, man my interior is just beat the hell up, it looks like it was uncovered and it just sat around letting the elements beat the hell out of it. now i mean it wasn't perfect but it was in really good shape for a 48 year old car. New kick panels i had installed like 2 months before it went into the shop, broken, new speakers crushed, my radio some how disappeared. This was pretty much going down the route of a full blown lawsuit.
In the end, i pulled the car about a month ago. The bodyshop didn't get a dime from me, which is why they didn't get sued. I got some free body work, i got my car back, although its in pieces, its better than having to get a lawyer, pay them, waste more time and perhaps have the car get even more beat up.
So this is where i stand. I figured now that the body work is done i have some extra money to play with. IT WAS originally going to just be a weekend driver that was going to get some TLC but now that im in this situation well, i might just wrap it after i put it back together. Make it a driver and not a garage queen, something i wont be scared to get scratched up and can have some real fun in. I mean if anyone has a bodyshop they can reccomend in LA or so cal or can point me in the direction of someone who is reputable i may consider painting it back to the gold!
Anyways this is what im thinking of going with to start off:
-Swap the cowl for the original flat hood
-Ridetech coil-over 4 link cradle solution
-TKO500 or T56 swap depending on rear gears i end up going with
-Keep the LT1 for now, runs good might as well run it for now. Would love to do a LS swap but i dont think im ready to go in for a full swap just yet. I was even considering keeping the 350 and maybe adding a procharger to it. boost it for some fun.
Car at the shop
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/E3Mx6DW-1.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/r1PTO4A-1.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/GBOWJMu-1.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/lTo5BJ9-1.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/cFVk3qj-1.jpg
Their idea of proper prep prior to painting over the old color
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/9seNebe-1.jpg
Shes finally coming home
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/xv7HJCV-1.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/8jS4Qj8-1.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/KYcUpLt-1.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/gRLHbFc-1.jpg
Tucked Away
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/aWsvRuI-1.jpg
Interior
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/Fp2Psrk-1.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/v8lbTb4-1.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/SKpt2J5-1.jpg
So I've been lurking around for about a year now, checking out everyones cool projects, so i figured its time to introduce myself and my car and show. I have a 1970 Camaro RS/SS, 350/350 combo, 12 bolt with 3.08 gears, nothing crazy. The LT1 is out of a 92 Camaro i believe, swapped to a carb'd set up. Has the center bolt vortech heads but havent done much digging into the engine. Pretty sure its a 4bolt main.
I purchased it a little over a year ago from the 2nd owner, really nice guy had a bunch of history to go along with the car on the car, a partial build sheet protect-o-plate things like that. Now the car itself in pretty good shape, the body is pretty straight but it had some major rust issues underneath the front windshield and in the trunk floor so i decided to take it in to get it all fixed and get a full respray because the paint was not in too rough of shape but i figured get it resprayed and do some little things here and there and make it a nice weekend driver. so i thought...
So i live in Southern California, LA to be exact. I find this bodyshop on the westside, has really good reviews, he works on classics so showed me around his shop gave me his pitch he even was working on a 71 Camaro so i figured well this guy knows what he's doing and it seemed pretty good. Ill get it painted and well now this is where hell starts...
The car has been in paint jail for about a year until i recently pulled it from his shop. It was constant BS, always giving me the okie doke, i tried staying patient as i already had money poured into the body and i might as well stick it out. The first body man to work on my car was terrible, i mean body lines gaps all crooked things that were really just unacceptable. The car would sit for a month at a time and not get any work done on it. Finally they hire a really good body man, and he gets me right, he fixes all the rust, the trunk, body lines and gaps get sorted out. This guy is good, really old school, him and i shoot the **** and he always gave it to me straight. At this point its pretty close to paint, and the bodyshop for the life of them cannot match the color to what it was, they sprayed the jams the wrong color, and what they did spray wasnt properly sanded. i was able to pull gunk off the paint and find the old paint still under it. I finally take a really good look at the car, man my interior is just beat the hell up, it looks like it was uncovered and it just sat around letting the elements beat the hell out of it. now i mean it wasn't perfect but it was in really good shape for a 48 year old car. New kick panels i had installed like 2 months before it went into the shop, broken, new speakers crushed, my radio some how disappeared. This was pretty much going down the route of a full blown lawsuit.
In the end, i pulled the car about a month ago. The bodyshop didn't get a dime from me, which is why they didn't get sued. I got some free body work, i got my car back, although its in pieces, its better than having to get a lawyer, pay them, waste more time and perhaps have the car get even more beat up.
So this is where i stand. I figured now that the body work is done i have some extra money to play with. IT WAS originally going to just be a weekend driver that was going to get some TLC but now that im in this situation well, i might just wrap it after i put it back together. Make it a driver and not a garage queen, something i wont be scared to get scratched up and can have some real fun in. I mean if anyone has a bodyshop they can reccomend in LA or so cal or can point me in the direction of someone who is reputable i may consider painting it back to the gold!
Anyways this is what im thinking of going with to start off:
-Swap the cowl for the original flat hood
-Ridetech coil-over 4 link cradle solution
-TKO500 or T56 swap depending on rear gears i end up going with
-Keep the LT1 for now, runs good might as well run it for now. Would love to do a LS swap but i dont think im ready to go in for a full swap just yet. I was even considering keeping the 350 and maybe adding a procharger to it. boost it for some fun.
Car at the shop
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/E3Mx6DW-1.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/r1PTO4A-1.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/GBOWJMu-1.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/lTo5BJ9-1.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/cFVk3qj-1.jpg
Their idea of proper prep prior to painting over the old color
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/9seNebe-1.jpg
Shes finally coming home
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/xv7HJCV-1.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/8jS4Qj8-1.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/KYcUpLt-1.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/gRLHbFc-1.jpg
Tucked Away
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/aWsvRuI-1.jpg
Interior
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/Fp2Psrk-1.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/v8lbTb4-1.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2018/03/SKpt2J5-1.jpg