Hey guys, Here we have a car were currently doing for a customer of ours at our shop in Danbury,CT Ultimate Restoration, a 70 1/2 Camaro Split Bumper. The cars owner Scott has had the car for over 30 years and its been sitting in his garage awaiting restoration for a good part of him owning it. The car was very clean to start with, and was an original 4 speed car with black interior. We got the car with the drivetrain and interior removed, then we dissassembled the rest of the car and sent it to the blaster to start with a clean slate.
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Owner of 3 1968 camaros and a few other hot rods
After the floors were sound, we cleaned all the metal in the seams and layed down some fresh seam sealer
With the inside all set, it was time to start attacking the body, We had etched primed the car right when it came back from the blaster to prevent any sort of rusting and then we worked from the roof of the car down.
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Owner of 3 1968 camaros and a few other hot rods
After Priming and blocking the car 3 times and fitting the doors and fenders, it was time to take the car back apart to Por 15 the floors, and undercoat the underbody.
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Owner of 3 1968 camaros and a few other hot rods
We couldnt drop the ball on the suspension, so the front sub frame was fully dissassembled, and sand blasted. Then we seam welded the whole subframe, and smoothed it all out. After that it was time for reassembly, we installed all polyurethene bushings throughout, and bolted it into the car.
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Owner of 3 1968 camaros and a few other hot rods
We then installed our wilwood brake kit and started to wire the car and assemble the firewall.
Then we dissassembled the whole rear end, stripped it down and painted it and rebuilt the whole thing and installed it with new springs with poly bushings. We also painted our new gas tank.
Then we ditched the rear drums for a matching set of wilwoods.
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Owner of 3 1968 camaros and a few other hot rods
We then installed our wilwood brake kit and started to wire the car and assemble the firewall.
Then we dissassembled the whole rear end, stripped it down and painted it and rebuilt the whole thing and installed it with new springs with poly bushings. We also painted our new gas tank.
Then we ditched the rear drums for a matching set of wilwoods.
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Owner of 3 1968 camaros and a few other hot rods
After that, We got a nice big package in the form of a 450+ Hp 383.. But frankly the engine color wouldnt match the theme of the car... Sooo we stripped it down and painted it body color and added our own dress up items and dropped it inbetween the frame
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Owner of 3 1968 camaros and a few other hot rods
Then we got our 4 speed rebuilt, painted and detailed that, and installed it with a scattershield painted body color, and installed our hooker coated long tubes. Then it was time to fabricate our exhaust.
Stay tuned for more updates later today
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Owner of 3 1968 camaros and a few other hot rods