Brian's 69 Camaro

[minendrews68]

Dang Son! why don't you just build it from scratch?..... Just kidding, you seem to be doing a great job. Lot's of work being done here.

[Blown73]

Looks great Brian! Good progress! A project like this is all about baby steps!

keep it up!
-jeff

[bcampbell2858]

Thanks guys!

Overall it has been a pretty fun project so far. Spot weld drilling is tedious but its coming along smoothly. I'm excited to start putting things back together!

-Brian

[cbpldc]

Super impressive! Keep up the good work!

[bcampbell2858]

Update...

Haven't worked on the car since the fall. Wanted to get going on it again since weather has been nice! Removed firewall and have most of driver side inner rocker off except a few strips of metal. Next step will be removing the inner rocker panel brackets that surround the (heater duct hole?). New inner rockers have these pieces already attached. Once that is done...have a little bit of metal repair on inside of driver rocker. After that, I'll be looking to have the car sandblasted and start reassembly.

Pictures:











-Brian

[rohrt]

Holy *****

Nice work on the cart. I admire your determination too. Looks like your building a car around the VIN plate

Just wondering about cost of a new shell verses what you will pay in sheet metal?

[bcampbell2858]

Thanks! I think I recall a new shell being around 15k or so. Think I'll come in at less than half that with new sheet metal....doing the work myself. Don't have that type of cash saved up. Plus, I like the idea of bringing the car back to life...piece by piece! Looking forward to sandblasting and reassembly

-Brian

[bcampbell2858]

update:

Finished removing rest of inner rocker brackets. Next up is grinding down welds, doing a few small patches in outer rockers...then sandblast the car.









-Brian