'Streamline' 1968 camaro project

[Motown 454]

That looks great! I had the bottom of my car painted, now I wish I had waited and done more before firewall and bottom paint. They did a nice job on it.

[slimjim]

That looks great! I had the bottom of my car painted, now I wis I had waited and done more before firewall and bottom paint. They did a nice job on it.

I'm hoping to have it in epoxy primer next month, that should be the majority of the fabrication done...for now.
I will bring it home and assemble all parts, build and install the motor and in that time I will decide if/ what I'll do to the the rear end. Exhaust cut-outs, fuel filler removed maybe, custom rear spoiler?...
I'm just close to a point now where I either stop metal fabrication and happily finish it, and can start enjoying the car, or continue throwing money at personal touches and spend another year off the road.. There has to be a stopping point, I just don't know where it is. So I will bring it home, spend my money on the 'needs', while thinking whether further 'wants' are necessary.
A huge factor is I am so happy with the work that the shop does now, that I continuously want them to keep going. but the wallet (and the Mrs) disagree.

[camaros down under]

Do you see many aussie cars in Americaland?
Customs will be scratching their heads as they're used to sending muscle to Australia.
I agree with the stopping point. Get it 'finished' and enjoy it. Then later work out if you want little mods here and there

[minendrews68]

Hey James,
This car is going to be beautiful, Great work! I have a question though, (well actually a lot of questions) but I won't bother you with all of them. Does the late model dash actually fit into the early Camaro, width wise? Meaning, the padded part of the dash does/doesn't have to be altered? Does it fit between the posts? I know there's a lot of work goes on in the fab part of this. Really cool how this is going to end up.
Thanks,
Carl

[slimjim]

Do you see many aussie cars in Americaland?
Customs will be scratching their heads as they're used to sending muscle to Australia.
I agree with the stopping point. Get it 'finished' and enjoy it. Then later work out if you want little mods here and there

No none at all, However there is a guy here in NC who converts pontiac G8's into utes haha

Hey James,
This car is going to be beautiful, Great work! I have a question though, (well actually a lot of questions) but I won't bother you with all of them. Does the late model dash actually fit into the early Camaro, width wise? Meaning, the padded part of the dash does/doesn't have to be altered? Does it fit between the posts? I know there's a lot of work goes on in the fab part of this. Really cool how this is going to end up.
Thanks,
Carl

Fire away, I'm always more than happy to help.
Width wise, the dash fits surprisingly well, the pictures below will show it.
But it is much, much deeper and needs to be trimmed back a lot! It's all in place now and looks quite at home, I'm really liking it. The dash actually isn't padded anywhere, it's just plastic and can be cut easily, but it fits in-between the posts no problem at all.
we'll need to make some custom side panels to close it out and figure a way to tie it into the A-pillars, and then make custom door cards to bring it all together but that is future james's problem, for now I just want to wrap-up the fabrication, which is very close, I sat inside the car today so we could figure the best way to mount the seats, and custom seat brackets will be made as low as possible, also some further reinforcing of the floor now that it has been modified to allow for the wider seats.
Then it'll all be removed in a couple weeks and we'll sand it back to bare metal before having the interior sand blasted a little and put it all back in epoxy.