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 Post subject: Re: 67 Camaro
PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2016 7:11 pm 
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Next I ground the inch thick bondo off & straightened the beat to death tail panel, also fixed the the trunk lock area where some dip $hit ripped the trunk lock out. Truth be told, If I had it to do over again I would just replace the tail panel and saved myself a few hours of spewing obscenities.. :-)


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 Post subject: Re: 67 Camaro
PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2016 7:16 pm 
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Next removed & replaced the rusted dash..

oops I must have deleted the pics with the new dash installed. :(


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 Post subject: Re: 67 Camaro
PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2016 7:23 pm 
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Next laid down some Epoxy primer over any bare metal showing and then followed up with 2 wet coats of 2K..


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 Post subject: Re: 67 Camaro
PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:18 pm 
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Beautiful job MrRat!

Not too many cars can compete with the fine curves a 67!


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 Post subject: Re: 67 Camaro
PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:25 pm 
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bullnerd wrote:
Beautiful job MrRat!

Not too many cars can compete with the fine curves a 67!


Thank you sir. I agree, 67 & 68's are by far my favorite cars...


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 Post subject: Re: 67 Camaro
PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2016 10:41 pm 
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My car is looking great. Nice 4, 5 or 6 speed behind a small block ...


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 Post subject: Re: 67 Camaro
PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2016 11:29 pm 
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go oddy wrote:
My car is looking great. Nice 4, 5 or 6 speed behind a small block ...


Thank you.
That would be fun but I'm likely just going to do the 350/350 combo in this one.


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 Post subject: Re: 67 Camaro
PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2016 4:36 pm 
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Here is a terrible cell phone picture but I shot the floor in Satin Black this morning..


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 Post subject: Re: 67 Camaro
PostPosted: Fri Aug 05, 2016 6:41 pm 
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A little more progress..

Cleaned and painted the rear mono leafs and installed some poly urethane bushings...
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Opened up the grease ball rear end and gave it a once over. Had to drill out a broken bolt on the cover but other than that it all looked good after it was cleaned up. I'll stick a pinion seal in it before I put the car is on the road.
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Back under the car..
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 Post subject: Re: 67 Camaro
PostPosted: Fri Aug 05, 2016 6:51 pm 
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Moved onto the subframe..
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Torn down & blasted..

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The control arms were beat to death so opted to go with Tubular arms, also ditched the manual steering for a 3 turn lock to lock box I had in my hoard.
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ditched the drum brakes and installed a new Disc brake set up from The Right Stuff.

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 Post subject: Re: 67 Camaro
PostPosted: Fri Aug 05, 2016 6:59 pm 
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While I was waiting on suspension parts to show up I tackled the deck lid. It had about 96 holes drilled into it all in the wrong spot to mount the rear spoiler.. :shock:

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I took the deck lid down to the original paint & welded them all up and started from scratch, then shot 2 coats of 2K and a guide coat on it..

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Installed the subframe with some new Poly subframe bushings and got her back on 4 wheels..
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 Post subject: Re: 67 Camaro
PostPosted: Fri Aug 05, 2016 6:59 pm 
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oops double post


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 Post subject: Re: 67 Camaro
PostPosted: Fri Aug 05, 2016 7:14 pm 
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Drooling in mass


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 Post subject: Re: 67 Camaro
PostPosted: Fri Aug 05, 2016 7:47 pm 
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Lookin good!

I used the same box, back then the trick ones came in the late model trans ams.

I'm not a fan of poly though. Used it once on a 78 bronco, never again! Squeaky a$$ shit!

BTW you can drill the front leaf mount holes higher for anti squat! LOL. I remember doing it, don't remember the results.


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 Post subject: Re: 67 Camaro
PostPosted: Fri Aug 05, 2016 8:10 pm 
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Thank you for the kind words guys.

I greased the leif spring bushings pretty good when I was assembling them, so hopefully no squeaks. The front control arms have grease zerks on the bushings so I'm guessing they should be easy to maintain should they start to make noise, but this is the first set I have installed so I cant really say. I personally prefer the look of the factory control arms on these cars but they were just too hammered to use in good conscience.


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 Post subject: Re: 67 Camaro
PostPosted: Fri Aug 05, 2016 10:21 pm 
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looks like a great project, i got a 53 mercury m100 truck, want to do it for me


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 Post subject: Re: 67 Camaro
PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2016 7:12 am 
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Man that's gona be a nice rig when it's done. Great job so far.


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 Post subject: Re: 67 Camaro
PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2016 9:29 am 
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Thank you guys.

Fully,
Sure.. :-) I built a 55 F100 with a 4V 351 Cleveland & C6 about 25 years ago and was building a 56 F100 right before I bought my first Odyssey & sold it. I've always really likes those old trucks, do you have any pictures of yours?


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 Post subject: Re: 67 Camaro
PostPosted: Sun Aug 07, 2016 12:40 am 
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Shes gonna be a beaut! Discs will be nice, My ol 69's drums would stop well but always wanted discs


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 Post subject: Re: 67 Camaro
PostPosted: Sun Aug 07, 2016 12:51 am 
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Thank you sir


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 Post subject: Re: 67 Camaro
PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 9:39 pm 
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A little more progress..

Rebuilt all the hinges & staightened the beat to death Passenger side door..

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I swapped the driver side door for another I had in my hoard. The original was broke down by the lower hinge. It can be repaired but since I already had a better door I just went with it.

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Next I started mocking up the front end to check for fit..

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Everything looks like it fits pretty good so I took both front fenders down to the original paint and fixed any damage including the antenna hole that had been filled with a rag and bondo. :shock: I welded up the RS turn signal holes in the lower valance so I didn't have to buy a non RS valance. The passenger side fender had been replaced somewhere down the line with a fender from an RS so also removed the RS head light bracket and fabbed a bracket to fit the non RS head light housing. The fenders are now ruffed in with all the emblem holes drilled.

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It's a little closer, & I'm hoping I can start shooting the shinny stuff sometime in September. I picked up the Base Coat last week, Marina Blue and Vail White for the D91 Stripe. :-)


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 Post subject: Re: 67 Camaro
PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 10:58 pm 
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Your very talented!

Looks great.


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 Post subject: Re: 67 Camaro
PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 11:18 pm 
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Thank you for the kind words sir


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 Post subject: Re: 67 Camaro
PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 7:03 am 
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Well done Rattus mate!
You been busier than a cucumber in a women's prison! :-)


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 Post subject: Re: 67 Camaro
PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 9:05 am 
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I just threw up in my mouth! :shock:


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