1969 Camaro "Yenko" Clone

[mcbassin]

Great looking metal work as always! Keep it up!

[67_C-30]

Wow! Nice work! I've been away from the board awhile and I had not seen this. I'm just starting on a '69 SS myself. Did you go back with a big block heater box and heater core? It sure moves those heater hoses away from the engine a lot. Its also cool to see that you have also have a '67 Firebird. I have a 400/ 4speed body. It doesn;t have the rearend, but all the sheetmetal is there, and it's also a pretty solid car. The '69 Camaro and '67 Firebird are my 2 all-time favorite muscle cars followed closely by the '70 GTO and '70 Chevelle SS. I hope over time I can restore both of mine, but I am going to focus on my Camaro right now because it MUCH closer.

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Originally Posted by mcbassin

Great looking metal work as always! Keep it up!

Originally Posted by 67_C-30

Wow! Nice work! I've been away from the board awhile and I had not seen this. I'm just starting on a '69 SS myself. Did you go back with a big block heater box and heater core? It sure moves those heater hoses away from the engine a lot. Its also cool to see that you have also have a '67 Firebird. I have a 400/ 4speed body. It doesn;t have the rearend, but all the sheetmetal is there, and it's also a pretty solid car. The '69 Camaro and '67 Firebird are my 2 all-time favorite muscle cars followed closely by the '70 GTO and '70 Chevelle SS. I hope over time I can restore both of mine, but I am going to focus on my Camaro right now because it MUCH closer.

Thanks guys. I will be putting in a big block heater core in her, need the room. I wish these were mine, but they are not, oh well, but I may have gotten my hands on a 69 Custom S!!!!! We will see.

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UPDATE!!!!!!

Well, There is some serious progress going on here! The shell is 95% done. got a few little things to grind and weld, then done. Both doors are done, , front valance done...... enough explaining, picture time!

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more, the top of the repro fender was crap

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front light holes filled and then smoothed out with a file, near zero filler!!!!

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Front Valance getting smoothed out, no lisence plate holder any more!

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SHINEY!!!!!!!!!!!! oh yeah, this is getting there now. Doors are pefectly even at the rear and 1/32 in from the front = no wind noise, rare occurance on one of these. gonna be nice!

[67ChevyRedneck]

Sweet

[sourkraut]

looking good james!

[my67chevytruck]

very nice James!

[hgs_notes]

That looks outstanding. Are you doing the paint and complete turn key rebuild on this car also, or just the body work? Is that project Swiss Cheese in the back ground? You should post some pics on that thread of "whats left" after sand blasting.

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Originally Posted by 67ChevyRedneck

Sweet

Originally Posted by sourkraut

looking good james!

Originally Posted by my67chevytruck

very nice James!

Originally Posted by hgs_notes

That looks outstanding. Are you doing the paint and complete turn key rebuild on this car also, or just the body work? Is that project Swiss Cheese in the back ground? You should post some pics on that thread of "whats left" after sand blasting.

Thanks guys, and yes that is "SWISS CHEESE" in the foreground. there will be some progress on it right away actually, while this is out for prime and paint. And yes, I am doing the complete turn-key of this car.

[noonzor]

james you do some real slick work there bud. coming along REAL nice!! keep it up!!

[mcbassin]

off the charts SICK! Looks great how much to do one of mine?

[rjn72]

i am way impressed. You just don't see many people take that kind of time to prep for paint. I always get in a hurry and get upset later.

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Well guys, I am a little disappointed tonite, I got the front lower valance on and the fender bottoms, IT FITS LIKE CRAP!!!! Here I was hoping that it would fit good and I would be done, NOPE, not in my lifetime, oh well. I have to wait until the new grille shows up next week for it, that way I can fit it to it, so until then I will find all of my misc pieces and start blasting them and get the front headlight mounts all bolted in to make sure that all fits, go figure, aftermarket, I should have know better, I deal with it all the time, oh well, just some more experience for me, oh and I will start the mud work on the rest real soo too!!!!! Yah. It is gettin there. Later.

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Originally Posted by noonzor

james you do some real slick work there bud. coming along REAL nice!! keep it up!!

Originally Posted by mcbassin

off the charts SICK! Looks great how much to do one of mine?

Originally Posted by rjn72

i am way impressed. You just don't see many people take that kind of time to prep for paint. I always get in a hurry and get upset later.

THANKS GUYS!!!!!! I try to do my best, you all know that.

[mcbassin]

I really like the way you made the tag detail disappear! Sorry it didn't fit all that great.

[hgs_notes]

That looks terrible. Why bother trying to fix it. I'm getting my bonus next month, I'll take a road trip and come take the whole mess off your hands. Then you'll have room to work on swiss cheese...

[keets36]

my all time favorite car ..can't wait to see more progress awesome job so far ..keep it up

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Originally Posted by mcbassin

I really like the way you made the tag detail disappear! Sorry it didn't fit all that great.

Thaks bud, it is getting there, slowly but surely.

Originally Posted by hgs_notes

That looks terrible. Why bother trying to fix it. I'm getting my bonus next month, I'll take a road trip and come take the whole mess off your hands. Then you'll have room to work on swiss cheese...

Ok, see you in a week!!!! LOL. just what I want it to look at OL' SWISSY!!!

Originally Posted by keets36

my all time favorite car ..can't wait to see more progress awesome job so far ..keep it up

Thanks alot, one of my favorite also.

[67ChevyRedneck]

Hey James, how can you leave the car "bare" for such a long period of time? If I did that here in SC, I'd have surface rust in just a couple days (high humidity.)

I can't believe the pathetically terrible fit of the aftermarket front end parts. The "new" fenders on my 67 only required tweaking to look nice. The doors fit well too, after messing with the window frames, but they're way too thin for my liking. It will all be back to OEM someday...

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Originally Posted by 67ChevyRedneck

Hey James, how can you leave the car "bare" for such a long period of time? If I did that here in SC, I'd have surface rust in just a couple days (high humidity.)

I can't believe the pathetically terrible fit of the aftermarket front end parts. The "new" fenders on my 67 only required tweaking to look nice. The doors fit well too, after messing with the window frames, but they're way too thin for my liking. It will all be back to OEM someday...

To be honest, up here we do not have the humidity like you do down there, we are fairly dry, even thou we have snow. fairly lucky that way I guess. As for the A/M parts, to the average person, it would probaly be fine, but to me, they are way out of whack. These pats are DYNACORN, which is the best, there is always fitment problems no matter what. Luck of the draw I guess. I just hope that it all goes good, in the next week or so, then I can get teh mud work done and the rest frmo there. we will see thou. oh well. As far as the thickness of the metal, it is the same if not better than stock. gotta like that, lots to work with.

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So....... I have been putting this off for a while now, I bought a sandblast cabinet for 1/3rd the price as it was missing a few parts, this morning I went out and worked at getting it going. I rednecked the top of it and cut a hole in it for a light, helps out tremendously, hooked everything elso up and presto, one glass beading cabinet.... While doing this I kept looking at the front of the Camaro, I said to heck with it, I went over and started beating the crap out of it with a 2x4 and a BFH!!!! I got it darn close to fitment, once I was happy with it smiled, I knew that once the new grill would shoe up, the rest would be easy, All good BABY!!!!!!!!