Finally starting the 69 GTX

[bgmiller]

Finally starting to work on the GTX I traded my 66 Chevelle 300 for. At the moment just removing the interior and a few other interesting items to see what lies in store for me. So the SRT8 seats are out so is the laminate flooring. Back seat was held in with wood screws through back into the sheet metal and on top on 2x4s screwed into the floor. Found expanding foam under the back window looks like the package tray (think that’s what it is called) is pretty rusted. Trying to do this all myself so guess I will get to learn welding and body work. This will be a slow process.

 

[Hilljack68]

I'm with you - this is my Winter to learn welding too. Always wanted to learn, but it was never a priority. With my current build, I have done (or am planning to do) more than I did on the last one... rebuild the rear end, put the headliner in, body work, etc. Have fun with the GTX.

Oh, are you planning on putting the original style seats back in?

 

[bgmiller]

I'm with you - this is my Winter to learn welding too. Always wanted to learn, but it was never a priority. With my current build, I have done (or am planning to do) more than I did on the last one... rebuild the rear end, put the headliner in, body work, etc. Have fun with the GTX.

Oh, are you planning on putting the original style seats back in?

I am, found some front seats already of course those need redone haven’t looked for a back seat yet.

 

[Runcharger]

Deal of the century trading a 66 Chevelle 300 for a 69 GTX! Well done.

 

[ckessel]

Interesting use of available materials.

 

[davek]

Bag and tag EVERYTHING, They butchered my package tray also for speakers. Pics of the outside please.

 

[bgmiller]

Bag and tag EVERYTHING, They butchered my package tray also for speakers. Pics of the outside please.

As requested.

 

[davek]

As requested.

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SWEET GTX

 

[70Hemi-RR]

nice project. I’m just seeing the light at the end of the tunnel on mine after 14 months. By the time you are finished you will be an expert on spot welds.
Good luck, looking forward to following your project.

 

[bgmiller]

Got the console and carpet out. Console is in pretty rough shape lots of crack and pieces broken might try some plastic weld and see if it can be saved. Lots of dynamat, going to try the dry ice method of removing it. Seeing rust in spots through the dynamat in the “new” floor pans the PO had put in. Already mentally preparing to add that to the cost list.

 

[Hilljack68]

I'm wondering what evil lurks beneath the faux Dynamat. Yikes!

 

[1969VAGTX]

Looks like you have some good in that GTX to work with, even if the floor and interior are a mess. If your frame rails are otherwise solid, I would say you have a very good start for your project.

 

[bgmiller]

Dry ice worked pretty good at making it easier to remove the sound deadening. Still thinking I will replace the floor pan and at least one rear foot well. Finished getting the adhesive and foam off with a wire wheel. Got the youngest home for college so had him climb under the car and take some pics of the frame rails think there is one the will need patched or replaced.

 

[nitro_rat]

Wow, nice looking car. I love the green. Great job on the trade, too bad about the seats. I have a rule now, I don't buy anything that doesn't have the proper seats in it anymore! Not only does it thin the herd of potential project cars, it cuts down on the number of road trips to pay some guy $1,000 for a seat frame that needs to be recovered anyway...

I just had to do the quest for my '68 Coronet R/T last year (the car that made up my mind to make the no seat/no buy rule). $1,000 for a nice pair of buckets in Washington state, and I think the car had a back seat frame in it. The year prior I had to find seats for another '68 Coronet, I think it was $800 for a bench seat that needs recovered, and another $800 for a set of back seat frames that need recovered. Somewhere in there someone threw in a '68 Satellite 4-door bench seat that's my "shop couch" now. So $2,600 in seats that all need to be recovered and probably 3,500 miles of driving to get them all home...