Jason's 68 coronet build

[jason79]

Building the paint booth

 

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Polyester primer

 

[jason79]

blocking, blocking, and more blocking

 

[jason79]

only wet sanding from here on out!

 

[jason79]

getting to the good part now

 

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just when you think you're done
Color sanding and buffing. It's total worth it!

 

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installing the vinyl top

 

[jason79]

working on the headliner this past weekend

 

[silvertonguedevil]

Holy cow!! This is awesome! Are you doing all of the work yourself?

 

[Sixtynine_Bird]

Wah nice work! You're doing great so far! awesome to see another b-body back from the dead!

Stupid question but what is "Blocking" I don't understand the meaning of it (PS: I'm French ^^)

 

[JimKueneman]

This explains it all nicely.

 

[JimKueneman]

Jason, yup your about 6 weeks (my estimate) ahead of me! I need to hurry up! A little competition may help you show your friend and help my wife get her garage parking space back before winter

 

[showard]

Great project! I really like that color. I'm looking forward to following this to the end. Keep up the good work and motivation.

 

[jason79]

Holy cow!! This is awesome! Are you doing all of the work yourself?

I have done everything but the deck lid myself. The original deck lid had typical Midwest rust and was beyond saving. I located a rust free one in Montana years ago. Had it shipped on a greyhound. This rust free deck lid had a couple of fairly good size dents on body lines. Thought it may have been out of my comfort level to repair. I farmed it out to a local restoration guy and he did a greally job with it. Finished on time and took picture to show the repairs. He pulled out all the body lines it was no bondo paving job.

 

[jason79]

I do have some help from a few buddies. We get together on wednesday nights for "church". Or maybe it's to BS and consume adult beverages. Anyways we there are 4 or 5 of us regulars and we take turns going to each other's house or shops to work on projects. Here's one buddy grinding off a tack weld after we pulled a good size dent from the pass fender. We even fashioned a slide hammer from a 1/4" rod with a plate welded to it and a scaffold foot with a roll of tie wire for some extra weight. It worked excellent.

 

[jason79]

After it got to cold in the shop last winter for painting (it is heated but cools off fast when you open the door and turn the exhaust fan on) I turned my focus to the drive train. I have several big blocks that are in need of complete rebuild. Was in the process of calculating the cost when a CL add caught my eye. Pick up a running 440 from a truck. Low miles with the 452 heads redone and a 509 cam. It's a low compression engine but I bought it right with a ton of extras.

 

[jason79]

Some more of the extras.

 

[jason79]

Tore the engine down to short block for inspection and to reseal. Made sure to spec out the cam too. Everything checked out and was nice and clean.