jeff06600

De-laminated one of the doors that was seperating.





Cleaned up the firewall











Replacing windshield upper frame














Replaced the bottom of the battery box.





Battery box.








Bonding the door skin.





Bonding the headlight header





Late night welding

LS4 PILOT

Wow....amazing amount of work and effort . You do first class work.

I like the way your keeping the stock appearance . I think GM did a good job with looks to begin with.

Your going to have an awesome car when your done .

BTW....I bought my car in 91 ....yup no internet and all that .....but I was smart enough to raid the GM parts houses for every part I could get my hands on that my car needed or was worn....I knew one day all the decent parts would dry up or go sky high.

Interesting PO of my car had installed a 3:70 gear in my car. I also choose to return the gear to its original 3:36 AX configuration. The 3:36 is much more livable with the 454. , seemed most of these BB cars got M21 .

jeff06600

Picking the body up from getting primed and sealed tomorrow. Sealer has a little orange tint in it to give the paint a deeper base.

jeff06600

Got it home. Prepping to get it back on the chassis. Not sure I thought I would ever get there.

F22

Quite a journey, you've been through and the '74 looks looks great! Not sure if the thread title 'refresh' is what you' re doing now, I'd say 'restoration' applies now.

LS4 PILOT

Jeff, man you are a machine , and awesome skills . Going to be magnificent corvette

Did your car have AC ?

jeff06600

@LS4 PILOT It didn't have AC. Power Steering and Power brakes were all it had from the factory. Everything else is manual.

jeff06600

Feels like a major milestone. About a week away from two years since I pulled the body off the chassis. I wasn't sure I'd ever get it back on. Still a lot to do but it seems like serious

progress.

doorgunner

It's come a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn ng way!

The ups and downs are only in previous photos!

It's back on wheels again!

Keep up the good work........................

LS4 PILOT

Keep Going , should be down hill from here

doorgunner

I just saw this pic in RVZIO's thread----you were encouraging him to continue with his restoration.







It inspired me (I've been "shut down" for a couple months)





Give us a little update.

jeff06600

I've been chipping away at odds and ends while I wait on the motor. Hoping to have the motor back in a week or two so I can get it moving under it's own power and over to paint.

Working on door hinges later. I'll take some pictures.

jeff06600

Slow going. I was trying to get the motor back in the car before moving it to new digs. Still waiting on the engine and couldn't wait any more. Moved the car after gutting and refinishing the garage and building a shed for the garage contents so the car could have the space.




Leaving the old garage behind.





New garage is a little tighter.





Small step: finished a hinge.

LS4 PILOT

Know about tiny garage s ..my car lives in one too....not much room to work . But tiny garage is better than none . Corvette s so need inside homes.

Hope the motor shows up soon.

jeff06600

Bolted down the body and hung the passenger door to begin shimming the body.

SB64

Hi Jeff, after you showing me you post and working on the windshield I went ahead and completed mine. Thanks for inspiring me to continue my work and be up for any other challenges. Thanks man!!
Roger

jeff06600

I get my motor back on Thursday. Peaked at 469.3 on the engine dyno.

LS4 PILOT

Motor looks good Jeff.

What cubic inches did you wind up with?

jeff06600

@LS4 Pilot I stayed with the original motor and crank. It was bored but I don't know how much until I pick it up.

jeff06600

I have the motor home and pulled the body to finish the chassis off with the motor and other easier to install without the body parts.