Project "Mid Life Crisis Low Rider Burb"

[gemiii]

Lots of rust!!! All 3 rockers, inners, complete a pillars all the way to the top of the windshield, both rear 1/4s, under the drivers rear door if there was one, firewall, front floors, spare tire well is gone, hatch, front floors a little, front cab mounts, bottom of front fenders and this is before blasting.

I am out laid off now so I am working on it full time. I think its January 2008. I rented a tag a long compressor and a 300lb blasting pot and blasted everything I could. Its a long day! My help didnt show so that didnt help. Ever sandblast in the cold? The hood fogs up and you cant see anything. I ended up using a welding hood with just a clear lens. Boy does the rust, paint and gunk come off fast. Then everything goes in the garage for etching primer. Im shot!!! Now there even less burb than I had before blasting.
The last picture is a drivers 1/4 that I bought with a nice hatch for $300. It looks pretty good and it looks easy to swap out LOL. It wasnt that easy but its better than fixing the rust. There was even more rust under that rust.

[1956cameo]

My hat is off to you for fixing it up instead of junking it out. To answer your question about the weatherstripping, Yes; they reproduce all of that. I know you can get all of it from Classic parts. They are vendors on this site and very reasonable on their prices.

[gemiii]

I left the body on the chasis for the rust repair so it would maintain its shape. I forget who did the faq on doing your own inner rockers, sorry but I did just that and it went well. I bought a brake at Tractor Supply and some sheetmetal and bent up mine own just like the faq said. I included about 3 inches of the floor where it was bad. Its fun cutting out the old stuff. I did the inner under where the 4th door would be so I could get my 1/4 back on. Everything got POR 15 on it. The 1/4 went in good.

[gemiii]

More pics of the 1/4 going in.

[gemiii]

Next is the inners on both the pass side doors. Rebuild the lower post in between the doors.

[HITAMUDHOLE]

Coming along very nicely, hats off to ya on the hard work already done.
Now post a couple pics of my all time favorite car, that blue Camaro you teased with just a slight rear end pic of!

[gemiii]

Originally Posted by HITAMUDHOLE

Coming along very nicely, hats off to ya on the hard work already done.
Now post a couple pics of my all time favorite car, that blue Camaro you teased with just a slight rear end pic of!

Thanks. I have owned that 69 convt since 1983. 3 paint jobs and 3 motors. It just sat for 14 years and I just put the 427 in again and drove it this past summer. I got tired of working on cars. I am back in a big way again.

[gemiii]

Weld, grind, weld grind repeat. I am using a mig welder with flux core because the gas part wont work. It goes pretty good. If you dont get to good metal you will find out fast as the metals disappears as you weld. Now to the floors. They went good too. Weld grind repeat. The seam sealer is the best part of this process. When nit goes on your done. Off to more rust!

[gemiii]

Driver side floor is next. I was careful to maintain at least original 1 bolt hole for alignment on the front cab support. I got the floor painted in por 15. Next is the spare tire well. I got a real nice well from Tom Korinek, thanks and got it in.

[gemiii]

After the tire well went in I got the lower 1/4 in on the pass side.