'69 Firebird Convertible Project.

[Code Red]

real nice Josh

yeah at some point I think the GTO needs to be taken all the way down since I know it has some questionable areas

[Josue]

Might be able to help ya out, if I'm still around! (FAA thingy...)

[Josue]

More small updates...

Spent about 6 hours this past saturday straightening the decklid out. Bondo wasn't drying too well, then it'd rock up out of nowhere, so it was a pain to sand. I usually like to start sanding when it's just getting tacky...it helps get the shape without busting your ass. I see these things on craigslist for cheap all day, and we probably could've found one in better shape, so I didn't have to mud it end to end, but after paying $50 to have it blasted, then spraying it with DP90, we already had some good money into it, so I just fixed it...



Respirator kids....this is dangerous stuff!



Fin...(for now lol)



Primed it tonight...



Did the glove box door too...

[Josue]

Here's a picture walk through of the rest of the car, and the problem area's I have to deal with...

Outer side cowl assemblies-

They're not too too bad, but there are some rust holes, and previous shady repairs, and mom wants this car done right, no matter what the cost, so I'm gonna put these in...




Center cowl repair-

The kid welded a new dash piece on the top there, and he cut the cowl area for whatever reason. New one is over $300, so I'm just gonna weld this back up...



Lower door post repair panel-

Self explanitory. lol Luckily they make a patch panel for this area, so that should make it easy...



New complete floor assembly-

More shady work from the previous owner, the floorpan he welded in is horrible. Check out this pic of the driver side toe board....WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU WELD A NEW PANEL ON TOP OF ROTTED, CONTAMINATED METAL?!?!?!?!?!?!?



Under the rear seat doesn't look much better...



Passanger side, under the seat...pretty nasty.



Rear floorboard...



Front floorboard/toe board...again, questionable repair area.



Pricing these pieces out individually, it'll only be $15 more to do a complete floorpan assembly, plus less work, so we're going that route.

Complete wheelhouse panels-

Driver side...suprise suprise, hack job welding it in...



The inner is rusted too...



Passanger side...





Complete wheelhouse assemblies are cheap, so I'll put it in with one shot.

[Josue]

Trunk floor kit-

Aaaaaaand, once again, WTF was this kid thinking? Why, when you can CLEARLY see that the whole trunk pan is rusted, would you patch some pieces in!?




So, we're gonna do a whole kit, new floor, extensions, kick down looking pieces behind the quarter, and braces underneath. He managed to splice one of those in thinking that was the way to go...



Extensions...




New complete quarter panels-

We have new skins for it, but getting complete quarters will be a better, easier repair, so we're going that route. It will take care of the rust around this area...



And also these previous repairs in the door jamb area...




All in all, the bill from Classic Industries is around $2,000 for all these parts. My dad's trying to sell one of his antique pool tables (1912!), and once he does, we should have the money to keep rolling on this. Hopefully I can get some stuff done before long, it's already cold as hell around here!

In the mean time, I'm just gonna mud up the fenders and doors. I wanted to fit these to the car 1st, but I don't want to waste time while I'm waiting for them to come up with the money for these parts, so I'll just tweak them later if need be....