Luzl78 1970 Monte Carlo
 

I have Jeff's Big block Monte Carlo in the shop for a make over. Overall the car is in very good shape but the New Jersey winters did a number on some of the usual spots. The car will get new wheel wells, quarters, rear window filler panel and most likely a roof skin. The car was a vinyl top car and was removed on the last repaint. The way they filled the holes with brazing and then dimpling the fill holes was the way they did it back them. The skin will need a lot of blocking to get it flat again. To save on labor its way easier just to replace the skin. I just received the sheet metal last night this is where the car is as of today.

Cool project! Where in New York are you? If you are replacing the vinyl roof, you might be able to get away without changing the roof skin.
Buddy

70 Monte...
 

And so it begins....:wink:

-wilma

Buddy, I'm just outside of Albany. Either way the roof skin will need to be flat to install the vinyl top. You can't hide these dents. The roof skin is also very thin from years of surface rust. At the end of the day for the time it will take to get all the rust out of the panel and get the roof skin flat I can replace the roof skin and still be ahead of the game labor wise.

Very cool! Love the 70-72 Monte's My dad has an all original Canadian built burnt orange 71

Jason, if I get up that way, I will look you up! Keep us up on your progress.
Buddy

Removed the inner wheel well the other night to find this. I made the repair last night and removed all the old quarter pieces left from cutting it off. I will start mocking the inner outer and quarter tonight.

first round of inner outer mock up went good. I'm going to test fit the quarter tonight.

Wow you don't waste any time.

These Monte quarters fit very good. Overall the first mock up was a success. I need to remove the quarter again to move the outer wheel to close up a gap between the 2. Then I will remove the quarter prep for assembly, weld the wheel wells, prime, and reinstall.

Thanks for sharing. I am enjoying this thread.

Looks great. Great car Jeff.

Best,
Dave

Finished the mock up of the quarter and inners. Removed them and prepped them for final welding. The inner is all welded into place. The outer is all ready to be welded. Then onto the quarter. Just a little time consuming.

Passenger side quarter 95% done.

Nice work Jason! Reminds me of the work done on my 70 Z28 project. Keep up the good work!
Buddy

New package tray and rear filler panel installed. Onto the driver side quarter.

Driver quarter coming along. Just one small repair required on this side. I test fit the quarter and inners. Just a little more tweaking.

Keep up the good work Jason. My 70 Z/28 project is back on the front burner at my friends shop!
Buddy

Cool project, did these cars come 4 speed from the factory?
I was in the top secret building next to the Gm Heritage museum and there was one with a 4 speed on the hoist, no one would talk about the car, lol.

----Yes they did. Can't quite remember the #s but Monte's with 4-speeds are out there. I had a 71 big-block version with 3000 original miles quite a while back. What they never built was a Monte SS 454 with a manual trans. Only a small-block version and the 402 cube version like I had.....Bill S

I’m putting a 6 speed in the one Jason is making pretty.

Did some more work over my holiday break. Driver quarter is finished. New roof skin installed. All the seams filled with Mar Glass just need to finish with a skim coat of filler. As you can see in the one picture the 70-72 chevelle roof skin had to be trimmed to fit the Monte roof line. Wasn't to bad I just took my time trimming.

Jason you are a magician!!!!!!!!!!! excellent work:biggthumpup:

Amazing skills & all done in house.

when someone loves what they do you always see in in the work. Jason is awesome! I'm lucky he's working on my car.

if you guys happen to need a set of original '70 quarter panel extensions i have a set. I can donate them to you guys if need be?

I'm trying to wrap up all the rust repair before disassembly. Just finished up with the driver and passenger side fender patches.

Making some headway to get the car into epoxy. Still a couple of small rust repairs to finish.

A little start to finish. The driver outer cowl was in pretty bad shape. Once I got it off I had the rebuild the inner structure and fix a bad spot just below the lower door hinge. Not sure why but these inner cowl panels have no holes in them to drain. Is this a Monte thing or are Chevelles this way also? I know the Novas have a drain at the bottom but they have a cowl panel. The Monte hood is large and covers the cowl, maybe by design they thought no drain was necessary.

Awesome job :biggthumpup:

Spent the day sanding! Epoxy primer tomorrow.

Wow, great work.

2 coats of epoxy primer and 2 coats of high build primer. Onto the rest of the body panels.

2 coats of epoxy primer and 2 coats of high build primer. Onto the rest of the body panels.

Great work! The owner must be very excited.

i am! Jason is awesome!

what a great job Jason is doing, outstanding work!!!!!!!!!!!!

wow great work! love the 1st gen montys.

Thanks for sharing these.This car will be something to see when finished.

I just have to figure out a color. I’m not gonna paint it original white. I have to find a color that would look good with med blue interior. I like 1963 Pontiac nocturne blue or 66 vette logins blue or 67 vette Elkhart blue or 58 vette silver blue or 2017 corvette sterling blue. Anyone have suggestions?