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Good pic Chaz. Shows the contour line down the center. Which is why fabbing from scratch won't fly. And Tony's orig piece can't be used to pull a mold or he will have a solid glass copy of a sea of bondo... Crap. 73-74. Bumper lip wrong and piece in front of headlights too wide for 68-72. Could still do the trick though.
Last edited by derekderek; Apr 10, 2019 at 05:55 AM.
A couple of pieces of information about this thread:
Number of posts in this thread: 4842 (not counting this one)
Number of pages in this thread: 243
Date of first post in this thread: 9/10/2013
Date of last post in this thread: 4/14/2019
Doorgunner, you are rocking it in the best Corvette enthusiast tradition. We are all 100% behind you, and we are so looking forward to many more great posts as this awesome effort continues.
A couple of pieces of information about this thread:
Number of posts in this thread: 4842 (not counting this one)
Number of pages in this thread: 243
Date of first post in this thread: 9/10/2013
Date of last post in this thread: 4/14/2019
Doorgunner, you are rocking it in the best Corvette enthusiast tradition. We are all 100% behind you, and we are so looking forward to many more great posts as this awesome effort continues.
Blast from the past...…...well...at least the POST has matching numbers...….3342/(20)3342...LOL!
(Remember...if the car had been even close to original I never would have made all the fiberglass modifications/doubled the storage area behind the seats/lowered the gas tank/etc.)
Thanks jv04 ! As you can see, I get by with a little ...lotta' help from my Forum Friends !
Last edited by doorgunner; Apr 14, 2019 at 12:48 PM.
After a year of recovering from spine surgery I decide to clean out the Vette shop while the car is at the painter...…………..
Everything on the floor goes outside to be sorted....it will all go into the addition on the rear of the original garage. (Time to cut the excess concrete "slag" off the front edge of the slab)
The Painter wants me to stop by tomorrow. He removed the doors and deck lid to start sanding and filling. I'll take a few pics.
Last edited by doorgunner; Apr 21, 2019 at 12:22 PM.
Make sure he knows not to fill in the groove behind the passenger compartment. And 3/8ths is what I measured in front of the headlights. 73 is about twice that. Happy Easter, Tony and everyone.
Last edited by derekderek; Apr 21, 2019 at 12:56 PM.
Make sure he knows not to fill in the groove behind the passenger compartment. And 3/8ths is what I measured in front of the headlights. 73 is about twice that. Happy Easter, Tony and everyone.
Got it...……!
Originally Posted by OldCarBum
Looking forward to seeing the photos
I'm going to the garage now to install elec. outlets/overhead lighting in the addition.....then I'll go to the Painter and take some pics..
Looks like he didn't fill in the seam around the back deck... the gills in the fenders. You staying with the 73-up style?
I have a pair of repair-gills and the chrome inserts to make 'em pop in the gloss black paint.
I oughta' take a heat gun to the Paint shop and remove the clip since it is "un-bonding itself" at the firewall. Then I can install the gills, repair the. Crack in each fender arch, sand off the 3 layers of previous black paint while the car is being painted from the doors rearward. The hood is already painted.......
Last edited by doorgunner; Apr 22, 2019 at 07:18 PM.
Doorgunner, did you decide to paint the rear part of the car now (instead of waiting to paint it all at once) because of concerns over contamination of the rear end while waiting to finish the front end?
That's a concern of mine, but I don't think with the colours I'm looking at its an option to paint the car at a different time from the front.
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