Recent content by Grashopr

Been a while, but we are getting there... almost done with all of the structural stuff.. replaced the frame rails, floor pan, fixed the firewall, wheelhouses, sail panel, rear window opening, trunk opening, and rockers. Got both quarters all the way on, rust-proofed interior of both rockers...

This one is definitely going to be driven. Got 2 more hard tops coming in right behind it.

Got the trunk floor in, outer wheelhouse started to get buttoned up, and found a pair of quarter skins locally (AMD is out til mid-May and no one else has any that I can find), so got it mocked up. Got the inner rear rocker in and started finish work on it. Next is passenger floor, trunk...

Working on getting this out in the next couple days. Steel should be here in the AM for trunk floor, extensions, and the inner rear rocker for drivers side.

Needed to get the car on a rack to align new parts, so built a quick frame rack.. Got the K member out, found out how bad the rust was on the front drivers frame sub... now to jig up the K member and the drivers rocker so we can cut both out and install new steel. Thank goodness for a warm week.

Figured it out.. the shop that had the car before us cut the quarter open but left a scab at the bottom that we didn't realize was there (the lead line was so smooth we didn't notice it was still in it...). The outer rocker panel cups in behind the quarter panel, and we are just seeing the...

I wish AMD would hurry up and stamp some more Quarter Panels and Rockers. Kind of holding us up.

Got the trunk floor out, found out that a mouse or something had been living in the frame pocket (might still be in there dead of a heart attack). Frame rails look like pounded hamburger from the undercoating that's still on them, but we'll take care of that tomorrow. Prepping for the new floor...

Started pulling the trunk pan today. Took tons of measurements then started cutting spot welds. Each weld takes between 45 sec and 3 mins. Some are just harder than others. Tried using multiple types of spot weld cutters, but the solid ones from Snap-On seem to last the longest and are...

Starting with Drivers inner and outer wheel well rust replacement. Wanted to stay away from the roof support reinforcement boxes, mostly because they are solid, and don't have it on a rack yet. So pulled the rusty sections and put in forward and rearward 1/3 on the inner, and almost all of the...

Its not un-restorable, just a lot of work. Just a lot of steel

Inner and outer fender wells showed, pulled the rest of the drivers quarter off, started patching in the rotten areas of the inner and outer fender wells..

Pulled both front floor pans to expose the torque box, dirty but solid.

We are restoring a 69 RR here at the shop, got started a few weeks ago, just been waiting on CI to get us the first sheet metal components, which just showed up. The back story of the car is it has a ton of sentimental value to the owner who had it at another shop who sand blasted it, cut the...