I am officially inspired. Going to work on the Corvette!

We have had a VERY rainy Spring/Summer so far and I finally got the car outside 2 days ago, to get epoxy sealer/primer on the raw dash/instrument panel. Had a few peeks of sun thru the clouds and it was windier than I would have liked, but ya gotta get stuff done when ya can....
Now to get all the seams sealed up.


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Looking great. How did you weld the dash panel at the base of the windshield - were those plug welds or spot welds?

Most of it I did with the spot welder, you can see the dimples. The left wiper transmission mount prevented me from getting beyond it and there are about 8 plug welds on that side and I think 3-4 on the far right as well.

I see I dropped the ball on this last June. I did get the front area seam sealed and in an initial coat of color. Then this got forgotten about and neglected during the busy summer until last week. Winter is coming and we're back in the rainy season, so dug out the wheel well moldings and drilled the mounting holes for them. These are the GM authorized moldings and are well worth the cost over the generic ones. The left quarter skin is an AMD fit to most of the original outer house and the right is an NOS full quarter fit to the original outer house. The moldings fit VERY well, with only minor tweaking. These are a softer, more pliable material than the cheap ones and lent themselves to the little shaping they needed easily. I'll be purchasing a set of these for the '70 Chevelle in the near future. Probably be years before I use them, but I'll hedge my bet that cost will have increased by then...:cool2:
Realized I needed to locate and drill the holes for the rs panel in the new quarter too. It was nerve racking to drill the first few holes in NOS metal, but it went really well.

Looking good Mitch! Will we be working on it at Karl's on the 16th?

I'm bringing the doors and fenders down for that. The right door needs a whisper more filler on the center style line that runs the length of the door. There is a slight low area that creates the illusion of it not being straight. That door was a total shock after being chemically cleaned and EDP dipped. It had a huge dent right on that crease that NO real attempt was made to correct, just slather filler over the entire door to blend...:mad2: That a was an unpleasant 5 hour drive home from Milwaukee and I was so disgusted, I wanted to just chuck the whole car outside and forget it. Karl talked me down a little and I started working the dent out and actually got it about 90%. No pic of that, as I was still on strike from taking pics of it...:laugh:

The fenders are NOS and have been out of boxes for many years. I want to do a light block sand to find dents that we can tap out pdr style to make better and use less filler for a skim coat.

Love the progress Mitch. Looking forward to seeing y’all at MCACN.

Any updates Mitch?

I disassembled the steering column and glass media blasted it all for paint. I'll be taking those pieces and the left door to my body work/painter's place on Friday morning to get the bare parts in primer/sealer. He wants to put the right door, that we did block sand more last month, in high build primer and block again and it should be ready for paint.

We sanded 1 of the NOS fenders at the club meet and it had a few very small dents that I and a pdr guy in the club worked out, but the consensus is, the original edp is not compatible with today's paints and it needs to be removed completely. The fenders will be going to be stripped and dipped in January.