Carpenters Special - 69 bee clone bruiser

[Superfreak]

The Super bee in waiting.

 

[Superfreak]

I am also help a friend restore his 69 Roadrunner 383 4spd post car. He bought the car with the best of intentions but had no tools no shop and absolutely no experience what so ever working on a car. so let the lessons begin. First he had a shop built then he bought a bunch of tools and a rotisserie. He bought the car when the market was high and got taken as I did with my 500 and is in very rough shape buy oh well you know what they say " Life wouldn't be fun with out a challenge ". He did not touch the car for two years because he didn't know where to start and was about to sell the car until I offered to help him as much as I could until it was completed. I just have a couple of phone pics handy at the moment of the car after we put it on the rotisserie.

We now have the car set up in a booth and I have my sand blaster there and I have him media blasting with aluminum oxide which I just happen to get six 55 gal drums of for free and has only been used once to blast new metal. I will keep you guys posted as I get some pics.

 

[Sneke_Eyez]

Wow, thats one hell of a project right there!
Good thing you have bodywork skills!

 

[Superfreak]

A little more tin work.

I had to do these in two pieces, need to trim the bottom yet and rivet them in after I do some more priming in this area.

 

[Superfreak]

A few pics of the cage bars, I did all these joints with a grinder and zip blades. Very time consuming but the joints turned out really nice.

 

[70roadrunner]

Damn buddy thats alot of work you've done there,lookin killer, I wouldn't mind having a pro-street b body, check mine out when you get a chance. Keep up the good work and the pics coming love the way it looks with the new rear tires.Think I can borrow that 493 from you.(lol) just kidding, engine looks real nice keep up the good work

 

[Superfreak]

Thanks for the kind words guys.

 

[Superfreak]

Update pics

I got the floor pans and tunnel made and welded the tunnel and the front pans in but just riveting the main floor pans in and have them seam sealed.

Got the fire wall almost done except for where the steering column comes through and just doing a little filler on the bottom before I spray DP 90.

 

[Superfreak]

Pic updates

I am in the process of taking off the roof skin due to having vinyl roof rot. The structure under neath has some flash rust but is really nice and a lot of areas you can see new metal but hard to see in the pics.

 

[Superfreak]

Update pics

Did a repair on the lower driver side structure behind where the rear leg of the fender is. It was rotted out on the inside so I had to repair inside and outside of the structure.

Made this piece for the outside structure.

 

[detmatt1]

Some nice work you have going there. Are you a carpenter or did I miss something?.

 

[CtownChris]

It's a freaking work or ART!

 

[Superfreak]

Some nice work you have going there. Are you a carpenter or did I miss something?.

Yes I am a journeyman carpenter by trade but started working on cars when I was 16 and my first car was a 71 Triumph TR6 -stripped it down to bare metal did the body work and primer took in for a $350 dollar paint job and redid the complete interior. Back then me and the buds were always working on cars but I haven't done anything since I was 24 until a couple years ago and I can honestly say I really missed the work and if I had kept doing it I probably wouldn't have stayed in construction, which is going on 32 years. I started working on a commercial construction site when I was 15. My other hobby is furniture making and refinishing but since I bought the cars I put all the big wood working tools in one corner of the shop and covered them up. My favorite is making 17 century Queen-Anne style furniture and I also worked for a shipyard company working on 10 - 12 million dollar yachts doing millwork fabrication and installation.

 

[Donny]

6x 55 gallon drums of AO for free? Man, wanna give me one for free?

 

[Revhendo]

That is fricking amazing work. Did you get a car with that VIN tag?
There is a serious amount of craftsmanship and attention to detail that you don't often see.

 

[detmatt1]

Yes I am a journeyman carpenter by trade but started working on cars when I was 16 and my first car was a 71 Triumph TR6 -stripped it down to bare metal did the body work and primer took in for a $350 dollar paint job and redid the complete interior. Back then me and the buds were always working on cars but I haven't done anything since I was 24 until a couple years ago and I can honestly say I really missed the work and if I had kept doing it I probably wouldn't have stayed in construction, which is going on 32 years. I started working on a commercial construction site when I was 15. My other hobby is furniture making and refinishing but since I bought the cars I put all the big wood working tools in one corner of the shop and covered them up. My favorite is making 17 century Queen-Anne style furniture and I also worked for a shipyard company working on 10 - 12 million dollar yachts doing millwork fabrication and installation.

I too am a journeyman carpenter and have been doing construction of one form or another for 22 years or so. I design and build furniture as well as restore, but am into mid century modern stuff. Also built auto show exhibits for 7 years, it's all fun to me, but my wood shop has been shrinking as my auto resto shop grows. You do awesome work, keep it up and check out my resto thread on my `68 Road Runner, the "JUNKYARD DOG" when you get a chance.

 

[daredevil]

Whats left of the original car? the title? lol very nice work. thank you for documenting it. its inspiration to all of us

 

[Superfreak]

Whats left of the original car? the title? lol very nice work. thank you for documenting it. its inspiration to all of us

Not much is left and would have been a lot easier if it was stock. I keep running into the domino affect. Thanks again for the wonderful comments guys and I get my inspiration from all the projects you guys post and the posts I see on other sites, one nice thing about the internet.

 

[Superfreak]

6x 55 gallon drums of AO for free? Man, wanna give me one for free?

I'll trade you for some blasting.

 

[Superfreak]

I too am a journeyman carpenter and have been doing construction of one form or another for 22 years or so. I design and build furniture as well as restore, but am into mid century modern stuff. Also built auto show exhibits for 7 years, it's all fun to me, but my wood shop has been shrinking as my auto resto shop grows. You do awesome work, keep it up and check out my resto thread on my `68 Road Runner, the "JUNKYARD DOG" when you get a chance.

Awesome work you are doing on your car dematt1