1969 drop top bird resto

[icenfire]

Started my project today.
Had planned on driver door skin, both quarters, both rockers, and rear front fender.
Found out after tearing it apart it needs new trunk pan and the full quarters not the short skins so already $750 over budget and it is the first day.
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DAY 1

 

[wingcarenvy]

383 4 speed car. Pretty cool!!

 

[moparstuart]

awesome car !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Pistol Pete]

$750 over budget and it is the first day.






Hahahaha......soon you'll look back on this as one of the cheaper days.

Good luck and keep us posted. Oh, and one word of advice - take many, many pictures.

 

[wingcarenvy]

$750 over budget and it is the first day.






Hahahaha......soon you'll look back on this as one of the cheaper days.

Good luck and keep us posted. Oh, and one word of advice - take many, many pictures.

5 window didn't you post your garage build over on the garage journal? Your user name looks familiar.

 

[Propwash]

Hahahaha......soon you'll look back on this as one of the cheaper days.

LOL.........No doubt! Sounds like a good day.

 

[hunt2elk]

$750 over budget and it is the first day.






Hahahaha......soon you'll look back on this as one of the cheaper days.

Good luck and keep us posted. Oh, and one word of advice - take many, many pictures.

Aint that the truth.

Also put every small part and piece that you remove into some small zip lock bags and use a sharpie to help you remember exactly where they go. I will also write if there was any missing or broke fasteners. Logging what color the misc. bolts and nuts should be painted could be helpful to. It's amazing how much a guy forgets in a year or 2.

 

[Donny]

budget? And you have not even got it apart and off to the media blaster yet, which needs to be your first order of business!

 

[Jasoncoronet]

Wow 750.00 you did a good job. It will get much worse than that, just kidding. Dont get discouraged its all worth it in the end.

 

[icenfire]

Putting them in bags already,

Thanks

And no blaster this go around, just making it into a runner, show resto will be in 5 years or so, I want to DRIVE it some.!!!!!

 

[hunt2elk]

I agree with Donny. Get that sucker media blasted since it is already torn apart. You will probably find some more bad spots. Fix everything now and be done. Just my opinion, but I can't stand doing things twice.

 

[roadrunnerman]

Understand on wanting it on the street as you as you can. Since your not going to media,maybe as you can clean everything you can use self-etching or epoxy primer everything so in 5 years when you do decide to go show car resto it won't be as bad then.

 

[icenfire]

epoxy on the floor and going to spray the inside of the fenders and quarters with one step

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Plus I dont have the money for a complete resto, $10,000 is my budget, a complete would cost $25,000 plus
I have to do the top, and the interior in that same budget.
Thanks

 

[Pistol Pete]

5 window didn't you post your garage build over on the garage journal? Your user name looks familiar.

Yep, that'd be me. I use the same username everywhere just to make it easier for my detractors.

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Putting them in bags already,

Thanks

And no blaster this go around, just making it into a runner, show resto will be in 5 years or so, I want to DRIVE it some.!!!!!

And along the lines of the baggies.....come up with a good system for organizing them. The first car I did this way, I just put the bags in several boxes. This took a lot of digging to find that particular bag with the fasteners I needed.

I now take pictures of the fasteners before dis-assembly and bag them. Print the pictures out and write on the photocopies a reference number that corresponds to a location in a drawer cabinet that I store them in. Think of it like a big tackle box. This keeps them quite organized and quickly retrievable.

 

[Ron 73]

Started my project today.
Had planned on driver door skin, both quarters, both rockers, and rear front fender.
Found out after tearing it apart it needs new trunk pan and the full quarters not the short skins so already $750 over budget and it is the first day.


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You'll have a great car once your done with it, hopefully it wont put you further over budget but they usually do. Good luck on it, looks pretty solid in your pictures..

 

[68sportsatelliteragtop]

Where are you getting "full quarters" for your convert? Haven't seen any repops and factory ones will be big bucks if you can find them! Good luck with your project, keep us posted, hopefully we will see some pics of you driving it this season.

 

[Pistol Pete]

Where are you getting "full quarters" for your convert? Haven't seen any repops and factory ones will be big bucks if you can find them! Good luck with your project, keep us posted, hopefully we will see some pics of you driving it this season.

As Ken and I can both tell you, source your parts before you go to wild with the air chisel. Some convertible parts are definitely made of unobtanium.

 

[icenfire]

full quarters from www.classicindustries, they will have to due for now

 

[icenfire]

WEEK 2
Cutting off passenger quarter, quarter off, took off front fender to fix the dent in it and... weld new rear lower fender panel

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Now I found that I need a new trunk pan and after wire brushing floor pan found too many holes around the dimmer swicth so will need a left side front floor pan too. Gonna leave the shift tunnel on and cut around it this time.

 

[icenfire]

Pulling the engine

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Engine out, turquoise is going to be orange!!

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pretty much everything is stripped but the dash board and window above

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Passenger side all done waiting for primer

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Now we start on Drivers side

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Start pulling the engine apart to clean and paint
It was rebuilt a while back and only has 500 miles on it, but sat 6 years, so new gaskets since I have it out anyway