You have one more now. That big YouTube money is just around the corner. Lol

Kevin

Have you got your new Vanity Plate ordered yet? MYTAZWEL or MITASWEL

Kevin

This is work that I've wanted to do for well over a decade, and is not really a case of "might as well", "mission creep" or anything like that.

I apologize if I gave that impression, it was not intentional.

I drowned the lip with epoxy from the inside once, but will probably do it one more time and slosh it around a little bit more.

Had some rotten luck with por15 in the past so I'm anti-por, but had amazing results/longevity with epoxy so I'm pro-epoxy.

That's probably too political

I wanted enough safe clearance for a 31" tire but have enough of a restoration mindset
to want a fairly "stock appearing" lip, so I incorporated that change into the quarter replacement.

The first side took about 4x as long to do as the second side. It's true what they say about practice.

By now I'd already cut up several of my new reproduction parts just to make them fit/interface properly with
other parts on the vehicle, so it was no problem to cut them up more for other reasons.

I'm skipping the low down stuff but also Leaded all the seams, have done maybe more than my share of metal finishing and so on.

I let it go too long.

I've left out alot of details that should probably be posted somewhere else, but anyway now the thread is mostly up to date so here is the current situation.

Stripped the trunk floor and wheel houses of the EDP, applied a few coats of epoxy/good for now.
Roof/quarters/dutchman/trunklid epoxy, filled, blocked to 40/80, surfacer and blocked to150/220....ready for 320 overall* next.

*overall because I haven't blocked below the character line at all and don't intend to, until it's up in the air....when it is, then I'll do the whole car below the character line.

Wow Rich, way to keep after it! it's coming around

Though it never had the side trim as long as I've owned it, and I have no intention of ever putting it back on,
the side emblems are mandatory. "You have to have these".

I measured and noted their location before cutting off the quarter panels, after doing some research I found my '69 emblems were in the same location as a '68,
I then found others built at the same plant that were the same/other plants had the emblem in a slightly different location. There doesn't seem to be a ton of interest in this, probably because historically the GTX has always been an underappreciated model, and that's ok. https://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/3052718/1.html

OF all the bodywork i do, blocking primer has to be my favorite activity for sure.... this is what "makes" the job

Keep up the great work

Rich,

It’s coming along nice man! Keep up the great work!

Wes

Coming along great. You have talent for rust repair for sure. That can be very tedious as I've found out. I second the idea of using POR 15 on the inside. We use a hand pump sprayer. Load it up and let drip. Seals everything from the back. Then throw the sprayer in the trash. Also if there is left over POR 15. set plastic wrap on the liquid before reattaching the lid. It'll keep it from hardening in the can.
Doug

Great work. I've always been a fan of this car and the antics.

Just dont make it too nice that you're scared to abuse it!

Thanks all.

Alot of folks hate hand blocking, but I have to admit I am a little like n20mstr.
Knowing how important it is, I want to take my time and really look/feel what is going on....
the repetition and focus needed give it great potential to become a zenlike activity, I've been
a guitarist for 43 years and gravitate towards that kind of stuff.

I usually get some tunes going, to help me down that path. Loud is good.

But for filler work, I like to rough it in with power tools/whatever combination of air file or DA seems to be working,
before going anywhere near it with a hand block.

I haven't even evolved beyond spray-bomb jobs and you're replacing panels, etc.

Before long it will look like this!

And yet I send intake manifolds to you for flow testing, because I can't do that.

I couldn't do any of that either, prior to 2006.

In 2006 some bad things happened to another car, and sent me down the path. I have a good friend to thank for getting me started.

If moparts wasn't quite so painful to load multiple pics and if I had a little more time, I could tell a more complete story and probably bore people to death.

There is a huge quarter panel, green metallic paint, and a C body involved, as well as the help of two moparts
members in 2 different states.

Correction, it was 2005.

My daily was wrecked by a drunk/scary high speed incident, I paid Dwain C. in Wyoming for a quarter panel, a great guy whos username was JackB near Belvedere Il picked up and held it for me strictly out of love of the hobby and wanting to help, drove there and picked it up in my then-GFs/now wife's borrowed minivan, my buddy Todd helped me install it, we did other metal work besides....I painted that giant 23 foot long green car complete...just for the experience and because I liked the car....my second overall paint job......and the die was kinda cast.

That was the point I progressed from pop rivets and bondo with spray bomb primer/lacquer topcoat
to proper welded body repairs/panel replacement and epoxy/urethane/base-clear metallic paint, and nothing but 2k refinish products.
Sure, I made a bunch of mistakes, it is inevitable, but the green car sat outdoors for about 15 of the past 17 years, and most of the paint is still on it....it fared much better than the GTX.

Big green car repair was on the General board back then, but old posts from General have been blown away.

I should be so lucky.

I like how the color is more calm in this picture:

The GTX won't be blue as long as I own it, though. I already have a blue B body, it's waiting to be redone sometime later.