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'67 Barracuda FB Final group of pics 2-14-10 #532294
11/21/09 01:37 AM
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After a couple years of "I'm going to paint it some day", I finally decided now is the time. Car in question...my daughter's '67 Barracuda. Rick (71autoxr) and I decided there's no better time than now to knock this thing out, so for the last couple of weekends we've started. First order of business was fixing the nose clip. Besides the grille holes being jacked up, the rest of the nose is perfect. We cut out the bad holes and welded in patches. Cleaned them up and shaped them to look "factory". We've yet to drill the holes, but so far, so good.















Next order of business is the roof. A previous owner had hacked in a sun roof and then another owner after him decided to take it out and hack in a patch. We spent a couple of hours tonight digging through about 1/2" of filler to find the welds so we can fill them right. The previous filler job was over some surface rust and it had begun to crack and peel. Our solution is to dig it all out and shoot it with epoxy primer to seal it, then fill over the top of that....and not with a 1/2" thick layer! Slowly but surely...hope to have color on it before the new year.







Re: It Hath Begun...56k WARNING! 800x600 pics [Re: Hotwheelsjr] #532295
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looks good. what are ya gonna paint it.??

should this be in the projects section

Re: It Hath Begun...56k WARNING! 800x600 pics [Re: 68KillerBee] #532296
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looks good. what are ya gonna paint it.??

should this be in the projects section




It is now...

It's going to be a gunmetal-like silver with black accents. By accents I mean the "PLYMOUTH" across the nose will be black, the fender emblems will be black, the grilles will be black/chrome (instead of argent), and I might put black side stripes on it. I also have the "E-body" hood in my sig that we're going to refinish in the process. The scoop inserts will be black. It should be pretty sweet when finished.




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that roof patch had my jaw literally drop.

cool project.

Re: It Hath Begun...56k WARNING! 800x600 pics [Re: nutso suave] #532298
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Looks Good
Next time remove the battery before welding ....


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WOW a Hemi Cuda Looks good, my first racer was a 67. And Mike, does your better half know you took part of the dinning set out as a ladder

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Re: It Hath Begun...56k WARNING! 800x600 pics [Re: Hotwheelsjr] #532300
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You are making some nice progress. Is your daughter think since you are working on her car now? Is she excited?

Joe



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Re: It Hath Begun...56k WARNING! 800x600 pics [Re: A70Runner] #532301
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Looks Good
Next time remove the battery before welding ....




LOL...yeah, we realized that after we had started. About 5 mins after this pic was taken we disconnected it.

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WOW a Hemi Cuda Looks good, my first racer was a 67. And Mike, does your better half know you took part of the dinning set out as a ladder




Yeah, "Fun With Sharpies". BTW...not my dining set...that's Rick's. I have the white set.

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Is your daughter think since you are working on her car now? Is she excited?




Yeah, she knows...we're not pulling a "Over Hauling" on her. She's pretty excited to know she's not going to have to drive around in a primered piece of crap any more...now it will be a painted piece of crap. Deep down she loves the attention she gets in it even now.

Re: It Hath Begun...56k WARNING! 800x600 pics [Re: nutso suave] #532302
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that roof patch had my jaw literally drop.

cool project.




In the late 70's I worked at an auto glass shop.. We used to just die when people would bring in there "pop top" sunroofs that were leaking.. Cut a hole in your roof expect the worse.. Another local glass shop was cutting out the tops of NEW trans ams and others installing t-tops... Still remember walking into that shop and an installer ( if you want to call him that) had his skill saw cutting off the roof of a brand new ( dealer still owned it) Trans am... Scary..

Re: It Hath Begun...56k WARNING! 800x600 pics [Re: minivan] #532303
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Today's progress. Finished stripping the roof and epoxy primered it to seal it. We'll do the body work on top of the epoxy primer.






Then we had a little hillbilly fun...





I think I'm going to tell my daughter we're just going to clear coat it like this.

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Color we've decided on -- Pewter Silver Metallic


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Since the roof is already hacked up...why not go all the way and make it into a convertable?

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Color we've decided on -- Pewter Silver Metallic





I like the color scheme....kinda like my 300 with AA1 silver and Black accent stripes (currently AWOL).

Git 'r done!

Re: It Hath Begun...56k WARNING! 800x600 pics [Re: OzHemi] #532307
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Since the roof is already hacked up...why not go all the way and make it into a convertable?




Funny thing is, I have a spare roof I bought off Jim (65belvjim) a while ago...it's sitting in the back yard. I just don't want to mess with it right now...we just want to get some driver quality paint on it for now.

BTW...I do know someone making a convertible out of a 4-door Dart.

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Maybe some T-tops then ?

Surely you could find a mid 70's Camaro or Firebird in the junkyards willing to donate it's roof to you.



(BTW...Silver should look awesome! )

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A little more progress last night. Rick banged out a few dents in the PS fender and we stripped and primered the nose and fender.








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When the heck did Stone Cold Steve Austin start restoring cars! ..It's looking good!


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Looking good! Are you going to shoot the engine bay silver as well? Silver looks great on those cars.


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Looking good! Are you going to shoot the engine bay silver as well? Silver looks great on those cars.






Yes, the bay will get silver as will the trunk and door jams, eventually. Initially we are just shooting the exterior and jams. The engine bay will be done when I transplant a V8 into it.

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Today's progress...the pass side is in primer/surfacer. Had to re-blast the roof welds and shoot them in epoxy again, too.











YEEEEEHAWWWWWW!!!!!!








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