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**Classic Heartbeat** · 11-15-2003, 09:41 PM

Well we have made more progress on our project. We installed our air dash, repaired more of the rear quarter, and shaved the seam where the roof meets the side of the body. Check it out... and let me know what you think. We are trying to make this project informative also.
http://www.classicheartbeat.com/67_panel_project.htm

WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com

dinnut · 11-15-2003, 09:46 PM

how custom you gonna go on thsi panel? are we talkign show truck (i mean show PANEL)? that would be sweet and just about the only custom panel i have seen. and ive only seen 2-3

**Classic Heartbeat** · 11-15-2003, 10:02 PM

As the project progresses it is becoming more and more custom. I realy like the way lotik has the forward tilting cowl hood on his truck, so we are going to do the same thing to ours. (Thanks for posting that lotik) I also will be shaving the gas filler and either opting for the behind the taillight filler, or going with a gas door. It will be lowered 4 1/2 inches in the front and 6 or 7 in the rear. Some day we hope to bag the truck, however that will have to wait. Also considering a TPI for the BB396, but that is on the back burner also. I allso have been racking my brains out as to what I want to do with the barn doors if anything... Considering a full lift gate like on the newer vans. I was considering some sort of hidden hinge, but I don't think that will work on these barn doors. Just kind of winging it...LOL I also hope to show it sometime, but it will have to be in some sort of working class show. That is because it will have my logo on the side.

WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com

**Classic Heartbeat** · 11-15-2003, 10:03 PM

I just love this look!!

crazy4chevs · 11-15-2003, 11:28 PM

Wes, check out the back doors on this. rear hatch and the bottom halves of the barn doors. This is an awsome look.
A lot of work but judging by your progress you could handle it.

crazy4chevs · 11-15-2003, 11:39 PM

Wes, check out the back doors on this. rear hatch and the bottom halves of the barn doors. This is an awsome look.
A lot of work but judging by your progress you could handle it.

Hotrodhenryj · 11-15-2003, 11:48 PM

How many pages are there, got to 12 and the link was broken. Looks nice so far, want to see the rest.

**Classic Heartbeat** · 11-16-2003, 01:17 AM

crazy4chevs, That does look awsome. Do you have the full size picture of that? Hotrodhenryj, 12 is all there is right now. I hopefully will have more after the weakend is through though. Thanks guys for your compliments. All comments are welcome also. I am trying to get something in there for everybody to learn from. I am of coarse speaking for the novices.. (Like me)lol WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com

dinnut · 11-16-2003, 02:09 AM

you should go for one giant door that hinges and goes vertical up a couple inches then goes horizontally. you know what i mean?

MrShelley · 11-16-2003, 02:32 AM

Looks like lots of work is going into that project!

I say go wild and shorten the back end of the truck about 18 inches for more of a Blazer/Tahoe/Yukon look.

gonebad2 · 11-16-2003, 02:52 AM

Looks awesome WES. I would really like to do a panel someday,but I don't have the space right now. Please keep the updates coming.

dinnut · 11-16-2003, 04:03 AM

you seen this one?

tommie · 11-16-2003, 11:28 AM

looks good WES.

how long has this progress been going on?

i need to learn how to weld

tommie

**Classic Heartbeat** · 11-16-2003, 11:43 AM

MrShelley, I won't be shortening it. One of the reasons that I bought it was because it is what it is. I have always loved panels, even since high school. The panel has lots of space to put my logo on also. If you look at the picture on my home page and also in my avitar, you see a Blazer that I have made look like a short panel. dinnut, I do know what you mean about opening like a newer lift gate, and I thought long and hard about that one, but have all but eliminated that possibility. The weight of the doors and the amount of reinforcing that I think that will needed will het in the way of the rear air that I want to install. (I think) It just hit me on the way back from dinner last night that I will stay with the barn doors, only I will try to use the jeep hinges that NSANE68!!! is using on his suiside doors so that they are hidden when the doors are shut. The only thing that I realy don't like about the origanal set up is those ugly hinges that stick out so far in the back. I think that if I am able to shave those and maybe the door handle (mabe not?) it will have the look that I like. There is one other customization that I do like also and that is also one that i think that NSANE68!!!did, and that is using the SS out of the Nisson tailgates welded in place of the fender emblems. I think that those with a little pearl sprayed over them would look exelent, and would go along with all the subtle modifications that i have been doing. Keep the comments coming I appriciate them, and I will keep the updates coming also. WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com

**Classic Heartbeat** · 11-16-2003, 11:45 AM

Tommy, I bought this Panel almost 2 years ago. I have been working on it a little at a time since. The last 3 or four months more intencively though. I would like to have it done this spring, but we will see. WES

dinnut · 11-16-2003, 04:50 PM

heres one more of a tilt hood

what about this for the doors. weld the 2 together and have it fly open from the side. and make it so it can be opened from either side. you could use the air from ur air suspension in a form of a strut or something to slide along the bottom and push the door out

dinnut · 11-16-2003, 04:53 PM

barn doors on an old school panel

zyggy72 · 11-17-2003, 12:45 PM

WES, Could I get some detail pics of the tilt hood, the hinges, and the mounting of it all? Also, where could I get one? Who sells them?
I've been wanting to do a tilt hood and swing away front fenders on my truck but really haven't been able to find anything.
Thanks

**Classic Heartbeat** · 11-17-2003, 01:10 PM

I do not have any pictures of that set up yet. I will once I do the modification. For now the only information that I have on it, is the information that lotik has provided. The hinges are out of a 90's model Buick LeSabre. I will be winging it through the process and once I am finnished, then I will post in our website the process we went through. I will be able to provide detailed pictures then. WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com

lewi · 11-17-2003, 04:10 PM

Wes , i am one of those novices and appreciate the info that you are putting out to learn from. Fortunatly my brother is a great fabricator when i need help also.

crazy4chevs · 11-17-2003, 08:32 PM

WES, I sent you the larger pics. Did you get them?

**Classic Heartbeat** · 11-17-2003, 08:59 PM

Yes I did. Thank you verry much. Those are extreemly helpfull. WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com

Moloko · 11-17-2003, 09:40 PM

It said on your site you need a tie rod. My friend is parting out a truck, email me if you need it. Kman1@ptd.net

11-15-2003, 09:41 PM	#1
Classic Heartbeat Project Junkie! Fishing Poor!! Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Olympia,Wa. 98512 Posts: 10,768	Made more progress on our Panel Project.. Well we have made more progress on our project. We installed our air dash, repaired more of the rear quarter, and shaved the seam where the roof meets the side of the body. Check it out... and let me know what you think. We are trying to make this project informative also. http://www.classicheartbeat.com/67_panel_project.htm WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com __________________ On-line catolog Classic Heartbeat Pickup Parts WEHEPP@comcast.net Call us Toll Free (888) 338-2502 Like Us on Facebook No appointment necessary. 72 BB Chevy Custom Deluxe / Custom Camper 67 I-6 (Soon to be 5.7 LS1) Panel 68 BB Chevy Short Bed 72 6.0 LQ9 Short Bed Chevy 4X4 Olympia's fastest growing truck parts supplier. Olympia's home for Wayward Chevys

11-15-2003, 09:46 PM	#2
dinnut Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: missouri city, tx Posts: 4,486	how custom you gonna go on thsi panel? are we talkign show truck (i mean show PANEL)? that would be sweet and just about the only custom panel i have seen. and ive only seen 2-3 __________________ 70 longbed 496/th400/Ford 9"

11-15-2003, 10:02 PM	#3
Classic Heartbeat Project Junkie! Fishing Poor!! Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Olympia,Wa. 98512 Posts: 10,768	As the project progresses it is becoming more and more custom. I realy like the way lotik has the forward tilting cowl hood on his truck, so we are going to do the same thing to ours. (Thanks for posting that lotik) I also will be shaving the gas filler and either opting for the behind the taillight filler, or going with a gas door. It will be lowered 4 1/2 inches in the front and 6 or 7 in the rear. Some day we hope to bag the truck, however that will have to wait. Also considering a TPI for the BB396, but that is on the back burner also. I allso have been racking my brains out as to what I want to do with the barn doors if anything... Considering a full lift gate like on the newer vans. I was considering some sort of hidden hinge, but I don't think that will work on these barn doors. Just kind of winging it...LOL I also hope to show it sometime, but it will have to be in some sort of working class show. That is because it will have my logo on the side. WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com __________________ On-line catolog Classic Heartbeat Pickup Parts WEHEPP@comcast.net Call us Toll Free (888) 338-2502 Like Us on Facebook No appointment necessary. 72 BB Chevy Custom Deluxe / Custom Camper 67 I-6 (Soon to be 5.7 LS1) Panel 68 BB Chevy Short Bed 72 6.0 LQ9 Short Bed Chevy 4X4 Olympia's fastest growing truck parts supplier. Olympia's home for Wayward Chevys

11-15-2003, 10:03 PM	#4
Classic Heartbeat Project Junkie! Fishing Poor!! Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Olympia,Wa. 98512 Posts: 10,768	I just love this look!! __________________ On-line catolog Classic Heartbeat Pickup Parts WEHEPP@comcast.net Call us Toll Free (888) 338-2502 Like Us on Facebook No appointment necessary. 72 BB Chevy Custom Deluxe / Custom Camper 67 I-6 (Soon to be 5.7 LS1) Panel 68 BB Chevy Short Bed 72 6.0 LQ9 Short Bed Chevy 4X4 Olympia's fastest growing truck parts supplier. Olympia's home for Wayward Chevys

11-15-2003, 11:28 PM	#5
crazy4chevs Registered User Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Des Moines WA. (Kent, area) Posts: 668	Wes, check out the back doors on this. rear hatch and the bottom halves of the barn doors. This is an awsome look. A lot of work but judging by your progress you could handle it. __________________ 70 chev c10 swb fleet 72 grill, sb 400, 2/4 drop. 68 chev c10 swb fleet Early classic 4/6 drop with 4wheel disc brakes 9"rear 67-8 buckets tilt and A/C Classic GM Truck Club of Washington .

11-15-2003, 11:39 PM	#6
crazy4chevs Registered User Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Des Moines WA. (Kent, area) Posts: 668	Wes, check out the back doors on this. rear hatch and the bottom halves of the barn doors. This is an awsome look. A lot of work but judging by your progress you could handle it. Attached Images __________________ 70 chev c10 swb fleet 72 grill, sb 400, 2/4 drop. 68 chev c10 swb fleet Early classic 4/6 drop with 4wheel disc brakes 9"rear 67-8 buckets tilt and A/C Classic GM Truck Club of Washington . Last edited by crazy4chevs; 11-15-2003 at 11:44 PM.

11-15-2003, 11:48 PM	#7
Hotrodhenryj Truck Farmer Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Lake Havasu City, Arizona Posts: 1,192	How many pages are there, got to 12 and the link was broken. Looks nice so far, want to see the rest. __________________ Arizona rust free sheetmetal

11-16-2003, 01:17 AM	#8
Classic Heartbeat Project Junkie! Fishing Poor!! Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Olympia,Wa. 98512 Posts: 10,768	crazy4chevs, That does look awsome. Do you have the full size picture of that? Hotrodhenryj, 12 is all there is right now. I hopefully will have more after the weakend is through though. Thanks guys for your compliments. All comments are welcome also. I am trying to get something in there for everybody to learn from. I am of coarse speaking for the novices.. (Like me)lol WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com __________________ On-line catolog Classic Heartbeat Pickup Parts WEHEPP@comcast.net Call us Toll Free (888) 338-2502 Like Us on Facebook No appointment necessary. 72 BB Chevy Custom Deluxe / Custom Camper 67 I-6 (Soon to be 5.7 LS1) Panel 68 BB Chevy Short Bed 72 6.0 LQ9 Short Bed Chevy 4X4 Olympia's fastest growing truck parts supplier. Olympia's home for Wayward Chevys

11-16-2003, 02:09 AM	#9
dinnut Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: missouri city, tx Posts: 4,486	you should go for one giant door that hinges and goes vertical up a couple inches then goes horizontally. you know what i mean? __________________ 70 longbed 496/th400/Ford 9"

11-16-2003, 02:32 AM	#10
MrShelley Too Many Clubs Club Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Kilgore, Texas Posts: 443	Looks like lots of work is going into that project! I say go wild and shorten the back end of the truck about 18 inches for more of a Blazer/Tahoe/Yukon look.

11-16-2003, 02:52 AM	#11
gonebad2 Merciless Butcher Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: CC Nevada Posts: 1,447	Looks awesome WES. I would really like to do a panel someday,but I don't have the space right now. Please keep the updates coming. __________________ Your Bought And Sold....I Got Your Soul!

11-16-2003, 04:03 AM	#12
dinnut Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: missouri city, tx Posts: 4,486	you seen this one? Attached Images __________________ 70 longbed 496/th400/Ford 9"

11-16-2003, 11:28 AM	#13
tommie 97' Tahoe 2dr/2wd Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Huffman,TX Posts: 1,168	looks good WES. how long has this progress been going on? i need to learn how to weld tommie

11-16-2003, 11:43 AM	#14
Classic Heartbeat Project Junkie! Fishing Poor!! Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Olympia,Wa. 98512 Posts: 10,768	MrShelley, I won't be shortening it. One of the reasons that I bought it was because it is what it is. I have always loved panels, even since high school. The panel has lots of space to put my logo on also. If you look at the picture on my home page and also in my avitar, you see a Blazer that I have made look like a short panel. dinnut, I do know what you mean about opening like a newer lift gate, and I thought long and hard about that one, but have all but eliminated that possibility. The weight of the doors and the amount of reinforcing that I think that will needed will het in the way of the rear air that I want to install. (I think) It just hit me on the way back from dinner last night that I will stay with the barn doors, only I will try to use the jeep hinges that NSANE68!!! is using on his suiside doors so that they are hidden when the doors are shut. The only thing that I realy don't like about the origanal set up is those ugly hinges that stick out so far in the back. I think that if I am able to shave those and maybe the door handle (mabe not?) it will have the look that I like. There is one other customization that I do like also and that is also one that i think that NSANE68!!!did, and that is using the SS out of the Nisson tailgates welded in place of the fender emblems. I think that those with a little pearl sprayed over them would look exelent, and would go along with all the subtle modifications that i have been doing. Keep the comments coming I appriciate them, and I will keep the updates coming also. WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com __________________ On-line catolog Classic Heartbeat Pickup Parts WEHEPP@comcast.net Call us Toll Free (888) 338-2502 Like Us on Facebook No appointment necessary. 72 BB Chevy Custom Deluxe / Custom Camper 67 I-6 (Soon to be 5.7 LS1) Panel 68 BB Chevy Short Bed 72 6.0 LQ9 Short Bed Chevy 4X4 Olympia's fastest growing truck parts supplier. Olympia's home for Wayward Chevys

11-16-2003, 11:45 AM	#15
Classic Heartbeat Project Junkie! Fishing Poor!! Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Olympia,Wa. 98512 Posts: 10,768	Tommy, I bought this Panel almost 2 years ago. I have been working on it a little at a time since. The last 3 or four months more intencively though. I would like to have it done this spring, but we will see. WES __________________ On-line catolog Classic Heartbeat Pickup Parts WEHEPP@comcast.net Call us Toll Free (888) 338-2502 Like Us on Facebook No appointment necessary. 72 BB Chevy Custom Deluxe / Custom Camper 67 I-6 (Soon to be 5.7 LS1) Panel 68 BB Chevy Short Bed 72 6.0 LQ9 Short Bed Chevy 4X4 Olympia's fastest growing truck parts supplier. Olympia's home for Wayward Chevys



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11-16-2003, 04:50 PM	#16
dinnut Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: missouri city, tx Posts: 4,486	heres one more of a tilt hood what about this for the doors. weld the 2 together and have it fly open from the side. and make it so it can be opened from either side. you could use the air from ur air suspension in a form of a strut or something to slide along the bottom and push the door out __________________ 70 longbed 496/th400/Ford 9"

11-16-2003, 04:53 PM	#17
dinnut Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: missouri city, tx Posts: 4,486	barn doors on an old school panel Attached Images __________________ 70 longbed 496/th400/Ford 9"

11-17-2003, 12:45 PM	#18
zyggy72 Can't kick the addiction! Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Riverton, CT 06065 Posts: 402	WES, Could I get some detail pics of the tilt hood, the hinges, and the mounting of it all? Also, where could I get one? Who sells them? I've been wanting to do a tilt hood and swing away front fenders on my truck but really haven't been able to find anything. Thanks

11-17-2003, 01:10 PM	#19
Classic Heartbeat Project Junkie! Fishing Poor!! Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Olympia,Wa. 98512 Posts: 10,768	I do not have any pictures of that set up yet. I will once I do the modification. For now the only information that I have on it, is the information that lotik has provided. The hinges are out of a 90's model Buick LeSabre. I will be winging it through the process and once I am finnished, then I will post in our website the process we went through. I will be able to provide detailed pictures then. WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com __________________ On-line catolog Classic Heartbeat Pickup Parts WEHEPP@comcast.net Call us Toll Free (888) 338-2502 Like Us on Facebook No appointment necessary. 72 BB Chevy Custom Deluxe / Custom Camper 67 I-6 (Soon to be 5.7 LS1) Panel 68 BB Chevy Short Bed 72 6.0 LQ9 Short Bed Chevy 4X4 Olympia's fastest growing truck parts supplier. Olympia's home for Wayward Chevys

11-17-2003, 04:10 PM	#20
lewi Registered User Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Redding California Posts: 223	Wes , i am one of those novices and appreciate the info that you are putting out to learn from. Fortunatly my brother is a great fabricator when i need help also. __________________ 1971 Chevy Cheyenne 383/350 LWB 2wd Built to use, and look good.

11-17-2003, 08:32 PM	#21
crazy4chevs Registered User Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Des Moines WA. (Kent, area) Posts: 668	pics WES, I sent you the larger pics. Did you get them? __________________ 70 chev c10 swb fleet 72 grill, sb 400, 2/4 drop. 68 chev c10 swb fleet Early classic 4/6 drop with 4wheel disc brakes 9"rear 67-8 buckets tilt and A/C Classic GM Truck Club of Washington .

11-17-2003, 08:59 PM	#22
Classic Heartbeat Project Junkie! Fishing Poor!! Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Olympia,Wa. 98512 Posts: 10,768	Yes I did. Thank you verry much. Those are extreemly helpfull. WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com __________________ On-line catolog Classic Heartbeat Pickup Parts WEHEPP@comcast.net Call us Toll Free (888) 338-2502 Like Us on Facebook No appointment necessary. 72 BB Chevy Custom Deluxe / Custom Camper 67 I-6 (Soon to be 5.7 LS1) Panel 68 BB Chevy Short Bed 72 6.0 LQ9 Short Bed Chevy 4X4 Olympia's fastest growing truck parts supplier. Olympia's home for Wayward Chevys

11-17-2003, 09:40 PM	#23
Moloko Hoarding Rusty Objects Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Slatington, PA Posts: 267	It said on your site you need a tie rod. My friend is parting out a truck, email me if you need it. Kman1@ptd.net __________________ 1985 Chevrolet K20 Silverado 1994 GMC Yukon Follow me on Youtube! - http://www.youtube.com/user/FuelInjectionSucks

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