New project coming along

[Bill Rose]

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Beautiful job! I still want your floor though! Wanna swap? Body for subframe. I'd do the body work and you can do my frame????? Umm half a frame anyway. LOL Bring on the body!

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Any time Jed. I can have the body there in 2&1/2 hrs, I'll bring your 1/2 of a frame home and have it back to you in a couple weeks. As long as you have the ElCamino is painted by then.

Steve, ya just have to go out there every night and get something done, no matter how much you wanna play on the computer. . I was outside in my driveway on New Years eve, spray painting new u joints under the flood lights when it was 25 degrees outside. The neighbors thought it was a little strange when they came home, but their used to this kind of thing.

[Postsedan]

Looking Great Bill....I saw your El Camino quarter panel from Greg Cullum at Jim Hanke`s house...it`s a very nice piece. Keep the pictures coming.

Dan.

[Nova Jed]

As long as it's stripped! LOL It took me seven weeks 5hrs a night and 32hr weekends to do my buddy's 71! I wish I had the before pics of that beast.

[The Dude]

awesome work.

[mockingbird812]

Bill,

Terrific and inspirational work! G70s are pretty rare on a '69 aren't they? Thanks for keeping us posted.

[92646]

I just found this post by Bill. It warms my heart seeing this car come together after all these years. This car is real and it will be perfect when Bill is done with it. I saw this car 25-30 years ago about 400 miles away from where I live now. The kid at the time had just bought the car from the second owner a few days before he ran out of gas in front of my house. I was the person that pointed out all the special things about the car including the big Holley carb. I told him to be prepared to put allot of gas in the car because of the L-78 motor.
Mark Sheppard

[Bill Rose]

Thanks for sharing that story Mark. We tend to forget these cars are 40 years old and have some history behind them. Who would have thought, 30 years ago, that someone running out of gas in front of your house, would be discussed on this internet thing in 2008

Couple progress pictures. Been taking parts out of storage containers, and blasting, repainting, rebuilding, etc. Some parts needed rebuilding like the steering column, brake/clutch pedals, etc. The seats have simply been sat in way too much. I striped them down and replaced all the springs. They will be recovered sometime before they're needed. I starting to run out of parts to redo. I guess thats a god thing, but it also means I can't put the body work off much longer. I have a quarter panel coming. ( thanks Greg Cullum/Jim Hanke) Still looking for a good right side door/or skin (HINT).

Anyway, just thought I'd post these pics before the chassis and all the finished parts are put into a car bag (thanks Albert for the extra car bag) and stored till the body is finished and can be reunited with the chassis.

[Nova Jed]

WOW! Look at all those parts. I'm doing the reversal of you Bill. I almost have all of the bodywork done on my Nova shell and it's time to start working on the small stuff. Maybe a week or two? So what did you do to that driveshaft?