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No more chassis rust so the complete car got a complete coat of epoxy primer. Next everything got a coat of rustolium and then a few layers of Raptor trunk bedliner. Let's see rust make its way back this time lol.

This is the point I was sick of finding more and more rust and just started fixing the car without stopping to takes pics along the way. I replaced the shock towers, inner fender panels, battery apron and molded each piece including the shock towers into one. In this pic I found a relief in...

Many, many, MANY hours later I wire wheeled the ENTIRE car down to bare metal. It became kinda therapeutic at times. I had my headphones on and just sat there. If I were to do it again this would have been the only thing I would have done differentialy. I would have sent the car out to be...

Wanted to mold the tail light extensions and felt the 3 bolts would allow to much body flex and crack. I made a bracket that the inner side of the extension would rest on. Later I put a metal filler on the bracket and secured the extensions with the original bolts. Here is the bracket.

Original hood unusable so I got a used hood from craigslist. Was a mach 1 hood with no shaker cut out and the holes where the wiring went through for the turn signals. Got a shaker hood template and cut the hole out, welded the other holes up.

Both floor pans nearly cut out and the drivers floor getting welded back in. Finishing off removing the passenger floor. Floor and torque box in. Waiting for the toe boards to arrive. Both torque boxes and toe boards in. Floors nearly done. All done.

Put it on the lift and found the damage done from the water sitting under the carpet all those years. Here is some of the damage. Passenger side floor Drivers side wasn't as bad but here is where I marked out the new floor pans to cut out.

I posted the story behind my car in the new members intro but I will put it here again in case everyone didn't see it. My father and I bought a 69 fastback 10 years ago and started working on it together. Never worked on cars before so this was the car I learned on. 2 years into the rebuild...

I don't want to hijack mikes thread but I will make a progress thread showing all the work I had to do.

Very productive weekend I see. Take pics of EVERYTHING! You will kick yourself if you don't trust me.

Beautiful ride! The sheetmetal work is the hardest, once you finish that the car flies back together. If you need any help or info ask me.

They look great! I went with a 6k kit for mine too. If they don't even out on brightness after a week you will have to start swapping parts from one side to tge other. Start with the bulbs and if the problem goes to the other side tell hidguy you need a replacement bulb.

Welcome to NYM!

Lol first time I heard Albany being considered as part NYC. I hear you on the kids though. If you do get the chance to go to any shows let me know I will see if I can make it. Thanks! Good to be part of such a good group of people.

We definitely need to get some more classics here. Awesome name btw lol. I am going to Goshen the 19th it's in Orange County. To us long islanders that's considered upstate haha. You going to make that show?

Thank you everyone for all your compliments! The next show I am taking it to is the one in Goshen on May 19th. I am also going to Carisle so I will try to connect up with the people from here that are going.

Thanks!

Good memory lol! I am lucky if I remember my name half the time. I helped him finish his car a few years ago. His is a lot more original than mine.

Yup! That's funny, how do you know him?

530. i am getting ready to head out there in a few mins