67 Camaro Build

[7dee2]

Trim on, trim off, trim back on you get the idea. Kelly's making the roof skin exactly match, no pressure. Thanks to Perks for snapping some more pics for us (a few from the last post & all of these), and of course as always, the excellent work.

[7dee2]

With the rollbar’s rear down bar being cut and our foot kit being for an A-Body I decided to use all new material to make the down bar and feet. This way we’ll still have the original A-Body kit left over (to sell?). Luckily, a buddy’s scrap pile had some of the material needed (base plate, inner tube). I just had to order in the down bar material as my local suppliers don’t carry this size.

Here’s a pile of new rollbar hardware that was just crazy money from a local supplier, it seemed really quite expensive (and I'm cheap) so I’m going to look online and see if I can do better.

[7dee2]

Here’s how the windshield opening turned out before any filler. Also a couple of pics of the left side glass with the upper weatherstripping installed. Yippee Ki Yah, glass fitment is all good and we’re moving on to other stuff (Dang windshield opening was really a pain.)!

[regan wilson]

That looks really good. I'm glad you have the eye to not just slap it together.

[7dee2]

Thanks Regan, it would have been disappointing if we had. Perks Auto Body continues doing a great job and are truly perfectionists. With Chris, Kelly, and I all eyeballing this thing I’ll say it’s definitely Mr. Picky Pants approved.



This scrap bar stock is the beginning of our rocker mounts for our roll bar feet. The rocker is the only area we can’t access from the backside when mounting the rollbar, everything else bolts through the floor. Not sure what they used back in the day, lag bolts (nut certs?) perhaps.

My friend Dekon (Vent Racing Technologies) made short work out of the base plate part of this roll bar project. He cut and formed the 3/16” plate pieces to an exact match of the size and floor profile I gave him.

https://www.facebook.com/VentRacing/

[7dee2]

More progress on the rollbar feet, as mentioned in the last post bar stock with welded nuts will go inside the rockers.


An update on the 1953 Corvette Vin #001 (aka 3950), Corey has the car running and driving and recently had it on display in the National Corvette Museum’s Skydome. Here’s a cool pic, the One Millionth Corvette built with the first Corvette in the background.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid...08975011274936

Additional links with info on the first Corvette discovery.
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...&postcount=326

[7dee2]

During a garage purging, I gave away a decent set of these AC push-in breathers over 15 years ago. Of course, now I want another set for this build and my BBC valve cover collection. After looking for what seemed like for-ev-er, I ran into this embarrassingly eBay-overpriced NOS pair.

On a cheapo note, the second round of rollbar hardware bought online did arrive (more than 1/2 off the local stuff). I’d rather support local but I got quite a bit more hardware at a much better price, when I brought this to the local guy’s attention they really didn’t care. Oh well, more shekels for old car parts.

Started cutting standoff pieces for the rollbar feet.