Coming along! Going to be a nice old ride to scoot around in! Enjoying seeing your progress!
If you have rust pits you want to fill in the fenders or single wall steel you can get to both sides of you can scuff the underside and remove rust and scale apply duct tape to the top/outside of the metal like the top of the fender.
Then apply bondo from the underside or JB weld or whatever you like.
After a day has passed remove the tape from the top/outside of the fender and you will have that rust pit filled in and nice and flush with the fender.
Apply touch up paint if you like.
Paint the underside (bondo) with black paint. Hidden fix.
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Then apply bondo from the underside or JB weld or whatever you like.
After a day has passed remove the tape from the top/outside of the fender and you will have that rust pit filled in and nice and flush with the fender.
Apply touch up paint if you like.
Paint the underside (bondo) with black paint. Hidden fix.
You are welcome
Sounds like the fix. I was planning something similar but like your description. The passenger side fender is ok but the drivers side has some very small places where the rust has made its way through.If you have rust pits you want to fill in the fenders or single wall steel you can get to both sides of you can scuff the underside and remove rust and scale apply duct tape to the top/outside of the metal like the top of the fender.
Then apply bondo from the underside or JB weld or whatever you like.
After a day has passed remove the tape from the top/outside of the fender and you will have that rust pit filled in and nice and flush with the fender.
Apply touch up paint if you like.
Paint the underside (bondo) with black paint. Hidden fix.
You are welcome
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There’s one more very small rust through ahead of the driver side rear wheel. Unfortunately I won’t be able to access the back side of that one too easily.If you have rust pits you want to fill in the fenders or single wall steel you can get to both sides of you can scuff the underside and remove rust and scale apply duct tape to the top/outside of the metal like the top of the fender.
Then apply bondo from the underside or JB weld or whatever you like.
After a day has passed remove the tape from the top/outside of the fender and you will have that rust pit filled in and nice and flush with the fender.
Apply touch up paint if you like.
Paint the underside (bondo) with black paint. Hidden fix.
You are welcome
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More progress today. We’re trying to save the original paint on the car even if it’s not perfect. At some point the deck lid was replaced with one from another car and the respray wasn’t a pro job. The paint was really thin and most of it had given way to surface rust. Also at the tail end of the driver’s side the paint is rubbed away, possibly from a car cover while it was parked under the lean-to for all those years. Anyway, this stuff doesn’t bother us and we figure it’s just part of the story of the car.
So today it received a wipe on clear coat using the Poppy’s Patina product. This will lock in the nearly 70 year old paint so we won’t need to worry about it.
On the power train front, my nephew (dlbleak’s son) got a great line on a ‘69 327 along with a TH350. A person would have to be crazy to walk away from the price the seller had on this combo. It was previously in a Gen 1 Camaro but came out for an LS swap.
Edit: Added a comparison photo of just a few weeks ago when the car was buried in dirt.
So today it received a wipe on clear coat using the Poppy’s Patina product. This will lock in the nearly 70 year old paint so we won’t need to worry about it.
On the power train front, my nephew (dlbleak’s son) got a great line on a ‘69 327 along with a TH350. A person would have to be crazy to walk away from the price the seller had on this combo. It was previously in a Gen 1 Camaro but came out for an LS swap.
Edit: Added a comparison photo of just a few weeks ago when the car was buried in dirt.
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What a nice ride you will have! Something to keep in the family for many generations to come hopefully!
Looks like the head on the driver side has the markings of an 882 head.
Which was ran from 1971-1976 on 350-400" engines and have 76cc chambers but I have measured them and found some were larger.
Not much compression from a 327" if that is a 327" and flat top piston engine.
You can take a straw or zip tie and insert it into the spark plug hole and turn the engine by hand and find the point where the piston bottoms out.
Straw no longer goes down. make a mark on the straw and one on the head or valve cover next to the straw mark.
Then turn the engine and the straw will come up with the piston.
When it is at it tallest height make a mark on the straw next to the mark on the head.
Measure the distance between the 2 marks on the straw.
3.48" or so will be a 350" stroke which is the same as a 305 chevy.
3.25" is the 327" stroke.
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Looks awesome Steve! Let me know when you’re ready to set that motor
Looks great! You are doing a fine job of rescuing that Chevy. Look forward to hearing when it is back on the road.
Nice old double pump Holley Carb.
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