NEW ARRIVAL-69 NOVA L-78 4 speed with 7,000 miles

[Pantera]

I would say paint it black. These are black up to the door seals and then Olympic Gold on the rest of the inside of the door frame. It is black between the seal and the window glass. No gold shows near the window its self. Hope this is clear enough to understand.

It is too dark to get a good pic today but if you really need some pic's, then e-mail me and I will take some for you tomorrow.

[bkhpah]

I would love to see some pic's of the black out on the door frame...BKH

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Pantera, nice find - good car. I wouldn't be too concerned about 'survivor' status, do a full frame off, and drive it like you stole it

[Schonyenko2]

After looking at your pictures, I tend to agree with Marlin on doing the frame off. You get into the, what do you change, and what do you try to save dilema.
The hole in the outer lobe of the firewall could be alot of things. It could have been a rust spot that they cut out to keep from spreading. They may have cut it out to get air in there for drying purposes, or they may have dropped something down the cowl, and just decided to hack it open to retrieve what they dropped. Some folks do crazy stuff. You might want to put on qtrs rather than scab on patches as I would think the outer wheelhouse may be rusted also. If you have rust under the tail light panel, you may need to replace that tail pan too. Overall she looks pretty nice. Those front frame mt bushings show me they were'nt kidding about the 7k miles. Schonye

[Pantera]

All you would have to do is open or close one of the doors and you would be a beleiver about the mileage. The bushings are a big giveaway as was the nylon detent on the drivers door lower hinge. Still looks new.

The hole is in front of the air vent inside the car so they would not have droped anything in there with out being able to take it out easyly.

They would have had to do it with the fender off too. ???

The wheel openings are just rusted off and the wheel house is still in good shape. They may have cut them to run bigger tires on the back and then didn't treat them to stop it from rusting.

I want to try to keep it as original as I can so I will try to find a donor car for the parts that I need. I will use a heavy rust preventer afterwards. The back could be fixed but I may go ahead and change the tail panel to make it stop the rust in that area.

This is next winters project, after I get the Motion vettes back on the road. So I have all summer to locate parts for it.