1970 Chevelle SS restoration

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Afte that, I was more careful to preserve the original black and strips to see what was under the filler. Some of the dents were rather deep. The one with the straight edge is on the left side of the center ridge and stretched. That will need a stud gun to pull up. I chipped the filler out of the dent on the nose and dang, that is deep. I worked on it for an hour and reduced the amount of filler it will need to level off, but it's rather crude right now.

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So, after lunch, I got started on what I thought I was going to do with the morning. After I got the hood off and loaded in the pickup, I started draining the coolant and putzing with removing the left fender to sell. I work rather slow, but methodical and after 4 hours, I had the front clip on the floor. I removed the spark plugs and will get a can of fogging oil and spray the cylinders down good for storage this time. The engine runs quite well and I'm glad it didn't seize up sitting for over 20 years. It has been run at times during that period, and I'm sure that helped keep it loose.
I was looking closer at what I had to get yet for parts and discovered someone had cut the rear wheel openings down to nearly nothing to clear tires. There is still black marks in places where they hit. Curious if they just had L60's/N50's for the street, or if this car really did race at one time. Now I'm really curious as to the gear ratio. I never did take on a street to see, as the front brakes either didn't do anything to slow it down or when they did apply, they never released..LOL.
DANG, the wheel house pics are vertical in my file... I can't do anything to get them upright on here... sorry

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What is your vision for this one Mitch?

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Just a nice driver, Tim. Not certain on color and probably have plenty of time to decide. Original was white with black top and interior. I don't plan to put a vinyl top on and the interior won't be black. Those are the only "for sure" changes.
The engine in the '66 was supposed to go in this car, as it is a CRT code for '70 LS5 with manual trans from the '70 I owned from '73-'79. I have a 427 block, crank and heads to build for the '66, but don't see that happening for a long time now, if ever anymore.