1967 ss/rs resto/mod

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I got the fenders back from stripping and dipping just before we went to AZ at the end of January. since then, we, body/paint mentor mostly have block sanded the EDP and found a few area he used some filler on to skim over minor imperfections. They are ready for sealer/primer now, but I realized last week i need to drill 13 HOLES in each for emblems and trim ! Yikes ! NOS fenders and I'm afraid to drill in the wrong location. I made templates of the hole patterns from my old fenders and managed to locate them for the V8 flag and 350 emblems, but I am paralyzed to drill the SS emblems at the front. Need help with that. The 3 holes for the rs trim will wait until I can find them and then 2 more for the rocker spear.

Anyway, I helped build the booth in the pics with my mentor. He bought a "prep station" air filtering machine with a small curtain around it, but we expanded it a "bit" to hold much more.

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I used the template to locate the holes on the right fender and it took some hand filing with a round jewelers file to get them straight and level, but they look good.
The string on it is on the body line, but there is no reference as to how far up from that the SS emblems go. References in the AIM are for plains that I have no idea how to locate on the fender.

[1967Z28]

Mitch, I think the measurements are in the assembly manual. The pattern for the holes looks like this.

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Originally Posted by 1967Z28

Mitch, I think the measurements are in the assembly manual. The pattern for the holes looks like this.

Thanks, Jon, yes they are, but not where to put them from top or bottom, at least that I have figured out. I have my old fenders to copy the hole pattern, just need to know where to put them.

[Lynn]

Would like to see a thread on the booth construction.
Looks pretty cool.

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Originally Posted by Lynn

Would like to see a thread on the booth construction.
Looks pretty cool.

I have very few pics of the construction. Karl has a bunch and I'll see if he can email some to me to post. It's 12X20 and since it is free standing, he went a little crazy with the siding. It's all 2X4 framing and we put 1/2" plywood on the inside and he had almost enough 3/4" sheets left from the construction of the building the booth is inside and used that on the exterior to prevent it from collapsing either way. Pretty certain he could run into it with a truck and all it would do is slide on the floor...

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Finally, some visible progress besides drilling holes. The NOS fenders have been blocked with 220 and are now in first 2 coats of sealer/primer. I brought the left door home and put it on the car, as it had a high area just below the style line. There had been a deep crease there that I metal worked out most of the way, but it had too much filler yet and needed to be on the car to be sanded down to match the quarter. Got that done too.
The "prep" booth worked really well. We were supposed to turn the air flow off while spraying but had it on during cleaning and tacking the parts and forgot to turn it off. It doesn't expel the filtered air out of the booth, it blows it out the top of the machine and creates a current that sends it back to the floor and back thru the filters again. Fortunately, I had the room clean enough that it didn't pick up any sizable dirt and drop it on the parts, that we saw. "Feeling" with our hands before block sanding may prove there is some, but it has to be very small.
Overall, happy to be moving forward again.

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Fenders and extensions were blocked with 220 and then 320. Doors were guide coated and blocked again. Header and lower valance had some "imperfections" filled and then blocked out to 320. Then it all was put into final "primer/surfacer" according to the bodyman. At this point, it all comes home and the car needs to have the running gear installed so the panels can be fitted on the wheels. I guess this means we are starting to get ready for color.

Working on the hood(s) and the deck lid. The original hood has sand blast warping and I now have 2 replacement hoods that were supposed to be "good" but after stripping and edp dipping are as rough, if not worse than the original. We are evaluating our next move on those.
Deck lid was a mess, as was every other panel on the car, so not a surprise, but disgusting and a lot of filler, sanding work to make it presentable.

[Lynn]

Looking good. I like when you hit a milestone. Makes you feel like you are actually getting something done.

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Bodyman said "it's time to get the body off the roto and assemble this for panel fit. So yesterday, I "discovered" the front subframe assembly under a lot of plastic I had thrown on to protect it from sanding dust and paint overspray. It still had a lot from before it got covered and I spent a couple hours doing an initial cleanup. I then cleared everything out from around, under and in the body to access it with the fork lift.

This morning, I lifted the body off, broke down the roto and hauled it to the back storage building. After I set the body on the floor, I realized it was perfect to get back to work on the roof, which needs more work and was NOT fun to work on after I put the body on the roto. More on that to come.
I rolled the rear axle outside on a pair of wheel dollies and scraped, wire brushed, soaked with de-greaser and then got my pressure washer running after sitting for 10 years...with OLD gas in the tank...yeah, stupid move, took a couple hours and a butane torch, but it does run again.