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Donny's 1969 GTX

Well, currently, I am in NH, getting nothing done but some R&R. When I get back, I have some old nearly worn out Media I have to use up; the GTX is the perfect candidate for my worn out blasting media, plus I have to clear it out and use some new expensive Acylic stuff for a new client I have who refinishes old metal furniture and he wants the rust on it for that authentic look, so gotta blast the old media out of the hopper, manually unloading it is messy, I lose much of it. I will be doing the GTX in Jan when I get back, and will have loads of pictures, you all have seen the before pics, now, the after will be coming.
 
Donny you really give us something to shoot for. Seeing what you do and how you do it is really teaching me a lot.
 
Donny said:
Well, currently, I am in NH, getting nothing done but some R&R. When I get back, I have some old nearly worn out Media I have to use up; the GTX is the perfect candidate for my worn out blasting media, plus I have to clear it out and use some new expensive Acylic stuff for a new client I have who refinishes old metal furniture and he wants the rust on it for that authentic look, so gotta blast the old media out of the hopper, manually unloading it is messy, I lose much of it. I will be doing the GTX in Jan when I get back, and will have loads of pictures, you all have seen the before pics, now, the after will be coming.
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Hi Donny , I hope you enjoy your time off, How long does Media usually last ? I can wait to see the after pictures of the GTX, ...I hope to get started back on my Hemi Vert. in January as well, .....are you going with Diamond Plate floors in the GTX ? ....just messing with ya ! :rolling: Take care and Merry Christmas,..Billy
 
Yes, Merry Christmas to you to! I get about 8-12 cycles out of it before it looses its edge per se. haha on the Diamond plate! No more building tanks!!!!
 
Ok, I'm back at it! I will be Media Blasting the GTX this weekend, along with some areas to touch up on my Satellite, along with a paying customer on his MGB, and some other small parts of other paying customers, so, I have a FULL plate all day Sat and Sunday! I'm going to have to hire someone to help me sweep up!
 
This is the former rear frame rails from Paintshop101.com recent car called DarkRunner. Here they are, all cleaned up, and in some self etching primer. This assy is going into my GTX. I painted them tonight, decided to move the GTX forward a few inches!

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The itch bit me again tonight. I had a bit more of the rocker panel to rebuild, did so with 300 rocker panel from a 1970 model car that has much sheet metal that I'm using! I don't think the inner rocker panels are manufactured...yet, so, I was fabricating them up.

What's next:

-Media Blast the car
-Prime in self-etching primer
-Install new rear inner fenders
-Install new footwell floor pans (where the frame rails tie into)
-Measure, re-measure, and again re-measure the dimensions for how the frame rails are supposed to hang in relation to other points on the car
-Hang the frame rails and tack weld them to the pan, the trunk pans and inner rear fenders
-Re-measure it all, take a day off, and come back and re-measure again to ensure I have it hung correctly
-weld it all up

When I get the above done, it's assembly time! Floors, qtrs, doors aligned/hung, basically start to have this car look like a car again!

But, I have a LONG way to go before I can think about engine's or new HEMI, or a 440...got another inch in tonight! :)
 
Oh yeah, no mentions of what's in the pics besides the frame? Ok, no problemo! On the rotisserie is a 67 MGB, up high in the air is my Satellite, and the hood is a 69 RR hood from Texas Acres that is basically junk, too rusty to do anything with. I started to media blast it, but at 18 psi I was turning it into Swiss cheese! I may take the intake area out, and graft them to a very good and clean 68 Satellite hood and make a custom job out of both hoods...something different, not sure yet...
 
Today, after searching to find the name/email/tel number to a guy locally that is/was selling a 68 GTX Drivers door, he calls me! YES!!! I went right over, with 50 bucks, and scored me a complete B5 color door with glass and guts, with mirror and remote control apparatus, but, with about 2 inches of mud inside. No holes from rust, in fact it's a pretty solid door, and I need this door as the stock one was too far gone in rust heaven. I tried to fix it with donor 300 door pieces, but, it came out looking like doo-doo, so off to the scrap pile that door went! I kept the 69 top inner structure with the correct 69 unlock knob in the right place; which I will weld in after I get it all cleaned up and stripped. The 2 reflective stripes are really trick looking! I think I'll wash the door and polish it for picture sake and post it here tomorrow evening! Then, inevitably, I will make it bare naked, prepping it for some nice Q5 color, with white inside trim color, can't wait!

Thanks for the encouragement folks!

Oh yeah, tomorrow, I will be Media Blasting a 63 Nova with doors and deck lid, and maybe the few remaining areas of my Satellite I'll get to! But, with paying customers I can't do my stuff until theirs is done!
 
I know, it was a steal for sure! The color is really dandy! I am sure it's B5 blue, man, it's pretty, especially up close, the pictures don't do it justice!
 
Very true about the locks! I didn't thing of that! I asked the guy where the rest of the car is, he said he sold it years ago for parts/scrap, he said they used to buy and sell the B Body's all the time, as there was so many of them around then.
 
Not this door, but, the door I got from Texas Acres with the front clip, I media blasted it, it's super solid, NO rust, today, I put it in some good self etching primer while it hung from my home-made paint rack, pics tomorrow! This is as far and all I've done on the GTX since returning from NH at X-mas time!
 
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