This one was picked to the bone and metal work was completed on the body shell. The chassis was finished, but I will be pulling the body back off to inspect everything. Body mount bolts are half missing, etc…so better for me to take a good look at what else is missing. All of the parts came in boxes…at least most of them did. Nothing is bagged or tagged, so I’ll be scavenging for correct fasteners. Todd will love me with this project! Current plan is as the factory built it - Harvest Gold with burnished saddle interior. *subject to change*. Top was sandalwood when new…not sure about that choice yet.
My first GS was a ‘70 455 coupe, Harvest Gold, Burnished Saddle buckets and Gold vinyl top. Harvest Gold is a pretty color done right! Patrick
Good (suprising) decision on the colors IMHO (hopefully won't change). Although the black interior wouldn't have been the worst thing, the Burnished Saddle will look fantastic providing Legendary gets their s*** together. I'm relieved for the owner that you now have this car and the owner may actually get to see his dream fulfilled. Hopefully whatever work that was done while it was in body shop jail is satisfactory.
I have been crawling all over the car today working on front end gaps. The metal work looks really good. I hope to have this in color pretty quickly.
This one sent to us from the UK London England on ship was a junk yard rescue. It was once sitting in a field abandoned. Untold hours of sheet metal work and welding. It was a rot box. And even had a bent frame. Luckily we found NOS convertible 1/4 panels for it. We cut sections out of a number of parts cars because much of the metal needed was not available and not reproduced. Most folks would have rebodied the car. And it would have been a lot easier to do. But it is a numbers matching original Stage 1 Convertible. No one seeing it in the UK where it went back to. Will ever know just how rough and rusty the car was.
Plenty of that. In this case, it’s shop dust. This car has been in body shop jail for a very..very long time. It’s overdue for its completion.
I never understood why people take out every bolt and screw from a car and then throw them in the floorboards in a mound (or in the trunk). Mixing and matching later is a lot of extra work. Ziplock bags and a sharpie are pretty cheap.
Echoing this big time. Late '80's, a customer brought a '67 427/390hp convertible w/AC Corvette and two '56 Corvettes to our shop after purchasing from an owner that had quit in the middle. This is what we got besides bodies & chassis. No internet except for Corvette friends, manuals and books! We spent hours and hours sorting, cataloging, tagging, verifying, etc with lots of help. In the end, the best of '56 parts went to a Bloomington Gold car, the rest went to a beautiful '56 driver. The '67 turned out beautifully too, but not without a lot of work. Curious options, probably pretty rare now that I think of it. Big block convertible with AC and a Powerglide. Hmmmm. Devon
We have liftoff. I cleaned up a small section of the frame…looks really nice. Hopefully a good scrub is all it needs……besides a fuel return line and new clips.
We power washed the chassis the other day…still looks great! Need to add the return line and correct clips. Also we are missing calipers, some bolts, hoses, and drums. I think some of those things are in the pile somewhere, though. Time to organize.
The chassis is ready to go back under the body, except for a few trinkets. Body work on everything but the hood is nearly complete. Almost ready to drop back on the chassis. I hosed some black epoxy on the under-bits and innards today in prep for that. I just have to go over the body with 600 and it’s ready. I’ll slap the doors back on and move it to the house garage so I can finish the hood, fenders, and trunk lid.
