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I bought this car out of Florida Auto trader in 2002,had a friend go look at it for me.He gave me the green light so I pulled the trigger and had it shipped up to Wisconsin.
Upon looking the car over it was pretty clean but took me a minute to see something was wrong. In the previous resto someone replaced the quarters with coupe panels.What a mess that turned out to be.
I decided to do a body only resto on it so we could drive it. I found a donor FB and used the quarters from just below the body line up to the lead line. Then I did a Shelby type conversion on it. It turned out nice a won some awards including this one from NAPA.

 

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Here is pic of the car with my daughter a year after the resto.

 

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So fast forward 17 years it's time to do it again and do it justice. Here is a pic after I dug it out of storage.

 

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So I got it in the shop and began teardown.

 

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Then on to the rotisserie.

 

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Then outside for some sandblasting to see what I have.

 

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I braced it up and started replacing the front aprons. The driver front was in good shape luckily so the two VIN numbers remain in tact. The firewall also had tears and extra holes in it so it just got replaced.

 

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Then I moved on to the floors,replacing both sides.I coated the inside of the frame rails with SPI epoxy.

 

[Israel]

Welcome, I’ll be following.

 

[Grabber70Mach]

Looking good, will be following along.

 

[image98]

Nice progress and good looking car.

 

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Then onto the back of the car. The doors were fitted up and the trunk lid and back panel were fit and squared up

 

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Once the tub was back together it went back on the rotisserie for a set of frame ties and finish the pass side torque box.

 

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Then I rolled it outside for another media blast.

 

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Once it was back inside I scrubbed it inside out with a plastic bristle brush,Dawn dish soap and distilled water.
I rinsed with distilled water then loaded up a sprayer with isopropyl alcohol and sprayed it down. I then blew it dry with a Milwaukee electric leaf blower.

 

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I let it dry good and then shot a couple coats of SPI epoxy on the whole thing

 

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Then I seam sealed the underside and shot it with SPI red oxide

 

[Grabber70Mach]

Looks like you've done this a couple of times.

 

[CJM68GT390]

Really nice work! I enjoy following.