The wedding Bee

[jamie]

So I posted this awhile back on the A12 playground but thought I would share it here also.We picked up this car to use as a parts car for the 1969 coronet convertible I did a few years ago.
It sat for some time before I thought it was time to do a father/son car.

The car was very rough but not as bad as the convertible so i thought it would be a good candidate.

 

[jamie]

Pics of the teardown

 

[jamie]

He took the car home,pulled it all apart and bagged and tagged everything

 

[PP1RT]

Looks good to me!

 

[Bill Monk]

I've seen a lot worse. Looks like a good project

 

[hanks73340]

Great to see another father/son project.

 

[69sunfireGTX]

It's in about the same shape as my GTX when i started. Nothing a few hundred (or more) hours of work won't cure. Piece of cake!

 

[super-bee_ski]

Wow
Looks good!

 

[jamie]

LOL ok I agree it's really not bad but you guys all have those optimistic "B BODY" glasses on!

 

[jamie]

So I take it back to my shop and begin the teardown.

 

[jamie]

After taking about a hundred measurements(I have another solid clean 1969 to go by and take measurements)I stripped it,then sandblasted it to see what I had to work with.

 

[jamie]

I set up jigs,which you can't always see in pics, according to the other 69 measurements.because the back of the car was so rusty,it didn't make a lot of sense to jig it up if it had sagged here and there from the rust...and it had.

 

[jamie]

I cut out the outer wheelhouses and repaired the inners.

 

[Lazerwolf]

Progressing great. Keep up pictures.

 

[jamie]

I mocked everything up several times for measuring and fitting the new outer wheelhouses.I then used SPI epoxy primer in and on the frame rails and other covered areas and installed the trunk pan

 

[jamie]

It went outside again to blast the outer wheelhouses and trunk pan

 

[jamie]

Then I mocked up the Dutchman,quarters,doors,trunk and tail panel

 

[jamie]

I had a good set of original inner doors so I reskinned them with AMD skins

 

[jamie]

I then fixed the floor pans with an original floor I got from a 70 4 door coronet

 

[jamie]

Once everything was welded back up it went on the rotisserie so I could add torque boxes and frame connectors