66 El Camino - Project CaMEANo

[gearheads78]

that is so badass.

co-signed I could not have expressed it any better

[Motown 454]

The dash looks great in there. You did a nice job on it.

[Mr. Anderson]

Thanks guys!! :D

[scemeca]

You make me want to build a 66 beautiful work i look forward to watching you finish your build!

[Mr. Anderson]

Knocked out the driver's B-pillar today.

Before...


During....


After!

[chunger]

Looking good! I'm guessing they don't make patch panels for those areas, you just fab them up yourself? If so, nicely done!

[Mr. Anderson]

Thanks! If they make them I haven't seen them. I just made these pieces from scratch.

[liquidh8]

Awesome work and awesome progress, almost makes me want to put my wagon and monte on hold to tear into my 65 elky, lol.

[Mr. Anderson]

Door jamb is done, time to knock out the other side....hopefully get some of the interior in there this week. Still have to paint around the rear window though.

There was a piece of drip rail I had to cut off so I could fix the rust behind it. I had it laying around forever waiting to be welded back on but when I needed it, it was no where to be found. So I had to fabricate a couple inches of the drip rail on the back end. Pain in the butt, but kinda fun figuring it out.




Oh, and I finally got the clutch stuff wrapped up.

[Mr. Anderson]

Passenger side done.

[Yelcamino]

Nice work!

[Mr. Anderson]

Getting closer. Rear end pinion angle adjusted properly, shocks installed. Got some more sound deadener laid down. Finished patching a few holes in the panel between the interior and bed. Finished the brakes up (hadn't assembled the driver's side). Got the e-brake cables run and finished the fab needed to connect them to the Camaro handle. I wanted to keep the cables short and the routing simple, so I ran them straight over the driveshaft tunnel, through the rear panel and through the floorboards. This also kept them fairly hidden from under the car and out of the way of any exhaust routing. I made a sheetmetal cover for the cables to keep them free of any obstructions, which will be upholstered.

Cables not shown here.




Will probably make brakes lines next. Haven't decided if I'm going to use an el camino gas tank still, or try and fit a chevelle tank and hide the filler behind the rear plate. I have both tanks so it's just a matter of test fitting. Gotta come up with a little cash to pick up the rest of the interior pieces...headliner, door panels, sill plates, etc. Starting to get excited again!

[Mr. Anderson]

Brakes are working! This is the second car I've ended up making all my lines from scratch...at least this time I had the help of a hydraulic flaring tool making it much easier. But I still had leak issues. I think I've found something that I hate more than wiring!



But no more leaks, it's all good now!

I also sold a few remaining hot rod parts from my stash, so all my interior goodies are on the way.

I guess it's been a while since I've ordered anything from OPGI, and I know I've moved a time or two since I have. I usually buy my restoration parts from Year One, but they didn't quite have everything on my list. So I got online and ordered from OPGI to get all of it from one place. I hate their website, it's hard to find specific parts by doing a search, but since I had a catalog in front of me with part numbers it was ok.

After I placed the order, got a confirmation e-mail, etc., they sent me another e-mail. They said since this was my "first" order, they could only ship to the credit (debit, technically) card billing address. I live in a townhome community and sure and hell don't want a bunch of boxes showing up on my door step to disappear, so I was having them shipped to me at work. I called them and asked why, they said "that's just our policy." Alternatively I could mail a check or money order and they would ship it wherever I wanted. I had no intention of waiting an extra week or more for my parts to ship, so I canceled the whole thing and reordered most of my stuff from Year One.

I have bought parts from probably a hundred different companies over the years, all of which I had shipped to my work address. I work at a retail and mail order street rod parts business where we bill credit cards and ship orders all day long. Never have I heard of such and asinine shipping policy as OPGI's.

End rant!

[brrymnvette]

Brakes are working! This is the second car I've ended up making all my lines from scratch...at least this time I had the help of a hydraulic flaring tool making it much easier. But I still had leak issues. I think I've found something that I hate more than wiring!

But no more leaks, it's all good now!

I also sold a few remaining hot rod parts from my stash, so all my interior goodies are on the way.

I guess it's been a while since I've ordered anything from OPGI, and I know I've moved a time or two since I have. I usually buy my restoration parts from Year One, but they didn't quite have everything on my list. So I got online and ordered from OPGI to get all of it from one place. I hate their website, it's hard to find specific parts by doing a search, but since I had a catalog in front of me with part numbers it was ok.

After I placed the order, got a confirmation e-mail, etc., they sent me another e-mail. They said since this was my "first" order, they could only ship to the credit (debit, technically) card billing address. I live in a townhome community and sure and hell don't want a bunch of boxes showing up on my door step to disappear, so I was having them shipped to me at work. I called them and asked why, they said "that's just our policy." Alternatively I could mail a check or money order and they would ship it wherever I wanted. I had no intention of waiting an extra week or more for my parts to ship, so I canceled the whole thing and reordered most of my stuff from Year One.

I have bought parts from probably a hundred different companies over the years, all of which I had shipped to my work address. I work at a retail and mail order street rod parts business where we bill credit cards and ship orders all day long. Never have I heard of such and asinine shipping policy as OPGI's.

End rant!

It's actually a good thing that they do that. I wish more company's would. It helps prevent stolen credit card use.

[Mr. Anderson]

I can see that point. While card security is always a risk, this doesn't seem to be a very feasible way to counteract it. They have mailed me catalogs to that address, sent postcards, etc. And we're not talking about a major thousand+ dollar order either. I dunno....maybe I'm looking at it wrong, but it's more of an inconvenience than anything else to me...there would be more of a chance of the parts being stolen from my porch than my card being compromised.

What is to stop someone from doing it down the line? I order today, have it shipped to my house, everything is fine. Then a couple weeks, months, or years later someone steals the information, has parts shipped somewhere else, but they allow it because I have ordered from them once before. I feel that if this is their concern, then they should ship to the billing address only period. I wouldn't like that either, but it would make a bit more sense.

[Mr. Anderson]

Onward ho...some pictures of said progress. This is actually the second bracket I made for the prop. valve, the first was a bit to thin and flimsy. I originally had sandblasted it for a nice uniform finish...but couldn't help myself, and turned it. I blame my dad for this. It's a good thing!




Then I spied the top cover for the steering box and couldn't resist.


The cables all assembled...


And my upholstered cover, aka vinyl glued to sheet metal.


Picked up this rear view mirror super cheap. Turned out to be the exact same one as in my daily driver. I love the modern look and feel of it, but didn't want to glue it to the windshield..


So I got started making a mount for it. More coming soon...

[Motown 454]

Nice progress since the last time I got to check in. It looks great! Your doing a nice job,I like the E brake cable cover.

[Mr. Anderson]

Thanks Wayne!

Done with the mirror bracket/mount.





Before the last round of sanding.


After the final round. I was planning on painting it black, but got it smooth enough that I think I'll just leave it bare aluminum. The mirror block will glue to this, then the mirror will clip on to that.

[sr73bu]

Nice update! cars looking great....

BTW, that steering box cover/ prop valve bracket...cherry.


-Sean

[Motown 454]

That's a good idea for the mirror.