1973 Camaro Z/28 Build - by 91gti20v

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Y'all probably thought this build was dead. It has taken a while to get the tools and equipment in the garage and then arranging for pops to fly up to help lend his painting skills to the project. Looks like I have finally turned the corner. It is just epoxy primer now, but color will be on shortly.

1/25/2012

Back from the dead

2/14/2012

Really excited to make a little more progress. The shop doing the work is top notch and I feel my car isn't worthy of their work, but that is besides the point. 

Here are a few pics of their builds:

7/16/2012

Any interest in this still?

Was working on plumbing the brake/clutch system this weekend. We fabbed a bracket to mount my prop valve and clutch master cylinder reservoir.

7/16/2012

Crappy pic with the point and shoot, but here is the back after it was lowered on the new rear suspension.

Money and time (or lack there of) are quite the hindrance. I spend most of my time traveling for business. It doesn't leave a lot of personal time. 

Last two puzzle pieces, transmission and radiator/cooling fan assembly, will hopefully be ordered soon. 

To give you an idea of my timeline... I expect to drive the car for the first time come Spring 2013. It will go straight to the body shop that sprayed the shell to have the fenders and hood clear coated to match the rest of the shell... And it will get mini tubbed at the same time. 

7/16/2012

Also working on installing a handbrake between the seats. Still need to fab a bracket at the axle for this. 

I am not sure how this setup will work, it is merely a stop gap. I redid the front suspension with the bracketry for the coilovers knowing that in the future, I will 3/4 link the back and at that point buy a matched set of coilovers.

Understand that these upgrades all were driven by the fact that the car incurred accident and fire damage. I have just been slowly progressing on this. I went all out on the front suspension (not counting shocks), modifying the frame to accept coilovers, seam welding, smoothing the firewall, completely repainting... All the while knowing I was just going to slap some 3" drop leafs on it until I could afford to 3 or 4 link it. Nice thing about shocks is they are really simple to replace, so when it comes time to putting the new coilovers on all the way around, it will be an easy swap. 

It is also hard to portray all of the little work that I have accomplished. Brackets getting powder coated and ready for reassembly. Acquiring the mess of crap I need to finish the car... Also got this done while I had the leaf springs out (provides better access to that corner of the trunk).

Local shop caught the interior on fire doing welding on the underside. As a result, the interior looked like this:

Little while later, I was hit in the quarter:

The shop refinished the floors and repaired the quarter. The quarter paint work was blended and the unibody wetsanded and cleared.