'63 Grand Prix Project

[Mr. White]

Thanks 65GP!

Had a productive weekend, built a rotisserie for the car and got the body mounted to it. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, it was pretty nerve racking getting the car trued up and balanced, but its done now and will make my life that much easier finishing out the bottom of the car. Here are some pics of the build. Sorry for the out of focus pics, my dad isn't the best at working a camera phone.

[Mr. White]

Looks like its been a while since the last update. Once I had the car on the rotisserie and got a good look of the entire body, I felt the car had a little more rust in the quarters and wheel houses than I was comfortable with. So I made the decision to replace the quarters, cut out all the rust and paint the car.

I stared with replacing the drivers quarter panel.



After I cut the quarter off this is what is found beneath.





Made a new panel and replaced the lower section of the inner structure and cover with some epoxy.







Got the quarter panel cut down and fit to the car.





Once the quarter was fitted, I decided to go a head and blot up a wheel just to make sure everything had plenty of clearance before I weld up the panel. Before I could do that, I had to change the bolt pattern of the rear axle to 5 x 4.750 since billet specialties could not make the wheels I wanted in a 5 x 5 pattern. In order to do that, I pickup a nice jig to make life easier.







After the bolt pattern was drilled, I had to ream the holes out just a little to install the new ARP studs.









Pressed the studs in and Finally bolted up a wheel.




and laid out.







Got the passenger side prepped like the drivers and and ready to fit the quarter and drill the axle.