69 Camaro -- visiting the rust doctor
 

I knew the quarter panels were not in great condition, but did not realize how bad they were. The car is at LaBrecque Autocraft now getting the quarter panels and floor panels replaced and then the car will be repainted.

The old panels were made up of 3 or 4 pieces and the bottom was held to the wheel wells with seam sealer.

old panels:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...-59-42_649.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...-59-52_109.jpg

the patient:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...-00-25_578.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...9-59-25_23.jpg

Ahyup, I'll be doing pretty much the same thing to mine next winter if all goes as planned. Fun isn't it?
Should be awesome when it's done.

HA! Not that much fun! Seems like 40 years worth of hacks. I should have checked it much closer when I bought it but it is getting straightened out a little at a time.

Do you have any larger pics of yours posted?

I do have a few but it's not much to look at right now. Been sitting the past couple seasons.

The day we moved it to our new house a couple months ago:
http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/u...8/c7ddd86b.jpg

And another sitting in the old driveway
http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/u...68/chicken.jpg

Very cool. When you start the body work, hopefully you can take a lot of pictures!

I just noticed you are in Athol. I almost had a job at Starrett about 10 years ago. It seemed like a good company, but very old with a building made around the time of the Civil War. It kind of looks like Starrett buildings in the background of your pic.

Good eye, they don't "kind of look like" starrets buildings, they are ;).
Actually the ones in that background are LP Athol Corp now. Starret is a little more to the left ;)

And I'm planning on starting to re do the chassis in the next week or two. New floors/frame/running gear this year, make the body nice next year. I'll start a build thread as soon as I start tearing into it.

Well at least you will know it was done right this time. One of the reasons I bought my 67 was because of the new sheet metal.

oh yeah that is to be expected!!!!
when i did mine it was a total panel replacement.

any updates David????

Mike Labrecque has the sheet metal - quarters, floor panels, and panel above the trunk are on order. Hopefully it will start going back together soon. I picked up a brake kit to replace the cobbled together one.

http://www.bowtiemuscleparts.com/product/BMPFDC-001

http://www.bowtiemuscleparts.com/fil...oaded/J52a.JPG

He will probably be putting that in next.

Damn Man!!! brake setup looks SICK!!!!! Take some pics of the car in stages man!!!! i wanna see the work!

same setup i got almost
hehe at least you know how the brake lines go in now lol.

HA! The brake lines look OK so no changes there. I was thinking of putting the brake parts in myself later, but with my luck I would put a big scratch in the paint while putting them in.

For paint, I am going with Lemans Blue Metallic with the white Yenko stripes put back on . The original color was Olympic Gold, but I am not a big fan of that color.

The paint color should end up looking like this:
http://www.camaro327.com/68/lemansblue.jpg

thats a sharp looking color. i like it

thats a nice color
and isnt that pub in Granby?

Thanks guys!

Dawg, I don't know where the pub is. I found the pic through Google.

That's a great color choice, can't wait to see it.

Thanks! Hopefully it is ready by springtime.

Thanks Pizza! I took some more pics today.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...1/000_0110.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...1/000_0111.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...1/000_0112.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...1/000_0113.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...1/000_0114.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...1/000_0115.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...1/000_0116.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...1/000_0117.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...1/000_0118.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...1/000_0119.jpg

Good luck! nice work bringing her back from the dead. Hopefully I can get around to fixing my rot on the 78 some day.

hmm springtime might be pushin it David lol.
with all the work the car needs im thinking early summer.
But itll be out and about before ya know it!

Thanks! I saw some pics of your second gen on another thread. Looks very nice and it will be a beautiful car.

Yep. I think you are right. I didn't realize the extent of the problems and it is not a simple repaint project.

Another problem is I am getting stir crazy and have been daydreaming about buying another first gen. I have even started buying parts off fleabay to build another 69 L72 427 but don't even have a car for the engine to go into.

thats a nice color, good luck with the build.

calm down david lol
get this one finished first lol.
btw did ya ever get the hood aligned properly on your other camaro????

Isn't that generally the same thing?

Thanks frankzlt1! Hopefully things start to go better....


Roger that Dawg....work on what I got, and get it finished first!!! The garage is too damn cold to work on the 68 hood right now though. Plus it's not easy being obsessive compulsive with neurotic tendencies. I went to Litchfield to get a casting #3931065 water pump today. A guy on camaros.net had a few for sale.

let me know what your looking for I got a few reliable people around with parts.
looking at the pics again and i hope the body shop will repaint all the interior panels aswell?
some look shot.

Both rear wheel wells, one rocker panel, and the floor pans will get replaced. The rest is in perfect condition. :rolleyes:

How's the car coming along.

Terrible! When he took the rear glass out, he found a lot of rot. Then he found the same thing in the front. He is going to be taking the roof out too.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ro/roof-69.jpg

gees by the time your done youll have new car from the factory. a lot of work but it will be a really nice car when its done.

yeah all common rot areas on the first gen camaro

well atleast you know that everything will be fixed and fixed right

That's nothing. Wait until I start tearing into my car. It needs pretty much everything lol.
Chassis/underside structure this year, outer sheetmetal hopefully next year :)

Nobody has a more rotten car than my 78Z. Sorry guys 1UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I did, but I scrapped it lol.

Did you see the pics of the white 91 I had?
And my 68 needs a LOT. By the time I'm done the only original sheetmetal will be the dash board ;)

my dash is rotten out lmao

I found a 1969 song that explains exactly how I feel about my 1969 car so I started working on a video for it…

WOW well done video.
But after ita all done youll be a happy camper!!!!

Yup, I feel your pain. If all goes well that'll be me in the next year or two...

Looks like it's coming along nicely though.

wow nice vid, that car will be awesome when its done.