So after many many hours spent reading Kwhizz builds on this site and learning a whole bunch of awesome goodness from them (thanks Ken) I figured I should throw my build up on here as part payment
This project kind of found me which was nice, a good mate of mine imported it into Australia a couple of years ago for his cousin. Clean Cali car (I've got the sand from the rockers to prove it), genuine SS, fastback, 327, t400, land barge. Unfortunately though there was a slight fire issue last year and it ended up with me a couple of months ago
Thats the night we got it home, looked pretty sad really. Most of the damage was in the engine bay but the dash was pretty well burnt as well. All the plastic from the dash was melted nicely into the scorched carpet but surprisingly the seats are fine, they'll get re-trimmed though im sure.
Pulling the thing down I could not get over how solid this car is, zero rust in the floor pans throughout, the only bit I can find up until this day is a 1 inch hole in the lower guard.
Off to the blasters we went and it was finally time to start putting new things on rather than pulling burnt n rusty chowder off.
While this was happening I ordered the first lot of parts for the rebuild. Steering column bearings, Rag joint, front and rear disk brake conversion, tubular control arms and every bush I could find for the front end.
Then I painted things, I'm definitely no painter but I have to say I'm pretty happy with the end result. Buy good products get good results they reckon.
Running disk brakes on the yacht was a no brainer for me and if I could improve the handling a little while I was there I thought I may as well. New energy suspension body mounts and sway bar links went in, tubular control arms, steering links are all in and she rolls again at least until i pull the rear apart for the rear disks
Must be about time to sort out an engine for it now i think, hopefully ill have an update with that soon.
Thanks for reading and I hope the pics work