'69 Firebird - Project Reconciliation

[Blue Bayou]

It's been a long time since I've updated this thread so I thought I'd put out an update.

After several months of little to no progress on the car I went and picked the car up from the shop it was at to finish it myself. Once we got it back to my friends shop we discovered that the repairs that I was told had new sheet metal welded in was just bondo'd over and had rust bubbling under the paint, major runs in the paint, DA marks visible in the paint, visible dents in multiple places on the car and the list just went on and on.



We decided to take the car back to bare sheet metal to know exactly what we were working with and to straighten the body and crisp the lines. Here are some pics of what we found...