1970 GTO the next project

[Dave Rifkin]

I love how nice and crisp you go the lines of the car; excellent work.

[Crush]

Curious as to how many hours it took to get it that straight?

[jasonL78]

Thank you for all the comments. It's really a labor of love. For me the more I do it the easier it seems. Each fender has about 8 hours of rework. The fender edge along the door needed to be reformed. I drilled out all the spot welds releaf cut the edges and pulled it out to match the door radious. Clamp and reweld. The front lip that comes to the nose was welded wrong to high and to wide. I had to drill the spot welds out and pull the fender down and in then reweld. You would think for a 400 dollar repop fender you wouldn't have to rework it but you do. I use a ruler straight edge on end to make sure all the panels line up. Lots of blocking but the end result speaks for itself.

[Mr70]

Yes it does.

[jasonL78]

First round of blocking the car completed. Now the tedious task of masking everything off. This is the second coat of high build.

[jasonL78]

May have a color picked out for the GTO Heaven Blue

[KingKoser06]

Hey Jason, I am really loving this build. How much outsourcing do you do with your projects? Do you have another shop do your paint work?

Alex

[jasonL78]

Nope all done by me except the rebuilding of the motor and transmission. I leave that up to the machine shop and engine builder. I'm a one man show!

[NorCam]

Originally Posted by jasonL78

May have a color picked out for the GTO Heaven Blue

Looking good Jason. Nice work as always.

[Bernhard]

Top shelf build very nice work!!

I can never understand how any shop can start a build with out making sure the frame and body shell are not straight before any metal replacement starts.

Thanks for posting