I got it home a couple of years ago and started to work on it, I was building a truck so found out it was very time consuming and expensive to have two full on projects going. I pushed the car aside but just started working on it again as the C10 is finished.
The first thing I did was disassemble the car, I sourced a new frame, I bought it off Ebay and it turns out it was the frame from Rusty Wallaces El Camino that they did for the TV show for West Coast Customs. I shortened it the 3.31" or whatever it was and set the car back on it. It was in this sketchy moment of pulling a rusty body off the frame that I realized I needed to make my life easier so I added a shop upgrade. This made my life so much easier and now I can lift the body off the frame in 5 minutes.
-- Edited by Lt1 Burb on Sunday 15th of April 2018 08:10:25 AM
So now I am here, working on inner and outer wheelhouses, it sucks that they don't repop them because I had to convince a guy in South Carolina to cut a car up and it took me 7 months to get them shipped out West. They weren't perfect but better then what I had and had the crucial rusted out support to the quarter. I welded in the drivers side yesterday, I have approximately 24 hours in it alone. I started on the passenger side yesterday and it is going to be a challenge, the profile does not match at all. If anyone has done it and wants to offer some advice LMK, I am no bodyman.
-- Edited by Lt1 Burb on Sunday 15th of April 2018 08:21:18 AM
so far all my convertible wheel houses have been ok on the tops(the part not the same as a hard top) so we took the tops off the repop hard top ones, put them in place then cut through the old and new together and welded them up
Boy, that 'vert seemed a lot more solid to start with than it actually is ... I commend your work so far!
Also love your truck ... 60 - 66 GMCs/Chevs are my favourites.
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'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
I know, imagine paying 25K for a car and it looks like that underneath, its an easy fix and I need to learn anyways, will need something to do when I retire. My truck was my first attempt at bodywork, this is my second. The truck is pretty rare, first year factory air, V8 auto, PS, PB.
Nice job on all of your efforts and results! And being a 66 convertible owner myself, I find the pics very, very interesting. (As well as very, very scary to think of what mine must look like underneath!)
Thanks for posting, and continued success!