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It’s been round after round of “surprises”. Many previous fiberglass repairs that needed to be redone, wrong cam installed into “rebuilt” engine, FI unit toast (beautifully rebuilt/restored by Ken Hanson), wrong color paint by previous shop, painted without “fitting” doors or headlight buckets, fender lips cracked and unfinished, stress cracks in hood, dented headlight bezels, body lines like ocean waves,etc., etc.,(so total repairs/shape/block/repaint).
A few photos:
I was going to say all the hard stuff are done, until you piped up with having frame, body and paint issues...
Looks like a very cool find, though, especially if all the parts are there. What do you have to redo?
Doug
I was going to say all the hard stuff are done, until you piped up with having frame, body and paint issues...
Looks like a very cool find, though, especially if all the parts are there. What do you have to redo?
Doug
inatial cut and buff on some of the suspect paint areas shows promise; couple of “lifting” areas on the doors may be spotted in?
hood, exhaust panel, headlight buckets and bezels need paint; matching will be the tricky part.
Previous body repairs appear ok on top, need finishing underneath.
will not know fit of doors, hood, bumpers, etc. until frame repaired and body reinstalled.
frame has had rust repairs at both rear frame rails/end caps(decent)
car had been hit hard on right rear, “repaired”(poorly), planning on replacing both kick ups and some of the brackets and cage nut locations that were “jacked” with by previous repair attempt.
if, if, all above goes well, then gauges restored, new wiring harnesses, new rubber, rebuild headlight assemblies(might go Detroit Speed), break in newly rebuilt engine, go through FI unit(might send to Jerry Bramlett), assemble everything.
I have a friend with a set of original fiberglass headlight buckets that he took out of his split window that he is building a resto mod. Around ser#9000. They changed around serial number 17 or 18,000 still fiberglass but a different design from what he has. I see yours are the metal replacements.
Last edited by 65 Pro Vette; 02-07-2019 at 12:28 PM.
01-30-2019, 07:01 PM
‘63 SWC “basket case”
