Is this a rebody?

[al8apex]

NO!

[67BelAir427]

Not a rebody, and I share Pete's "opposite view".

Show me photographs of the work performed during a restoration like this, and let me decide whether I wish to buy the car or not.

Have you ever heard of someone showing photographs of the rebody process to a prospective purchaser? "This is a photo of me removing the VIN tag from the original car and attaching it to another car".

[ChevyThunder]

I think if anyone was asked , " I can fix this car or I can just weld the cowl onto a Dynacorn body " I would think everyone would overwhelmingly prefer the original repaired. They may be somewhat bare on this car but the original bones are the original bones ...

[Jeff H]

Not a rebody in IMO. The original firewall is there which is the most important part. It may seem like a rebody due to all the other parts being replaced, but the true "core" of the original car is still there. Now if the original firewall stampings were cut out and moved to another shell, I would say that is a rebody.

[LT12NV]

According to whats been decided in the resto community, i would NOT consider it a rebody as the VIN and hidden vins appaear untouched..

[169indy]

ReBody-NO
A Joan Rivers extreme make-over YES

That takes MAD skills!

[StealthBird]

So, is this a rebody or just a extreme restoration?

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[RamAirDave]

We did one similar back in '07. Pretty much everything replaced aside from the cowl/firewall/a pillars and most other of the main structure.

It started as a pretty complete car, was just beat up and rusty. It was a "car" that was restored IMO, replacing what was needed. It wasn't just a set of tags/#s moved over to a different body, which is what many of the "rebodies" are.

[owners2]

Would you throw out the restorers name & phone # . I have exactly a trunk , rear body ,quarters & inner fenderwell job for him...... Thanks alot Jeff [ QUOTE ]
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Interested to know how much Ricky charges per hour ???

I just had some "minor" misc patch panel work done on my 69 Camaro, and know how fast hour upon hour becomes weeks upon weeks. (Was not weeks in my case, just a figure of speech)

I cant begin to guess, how many hours this project will have into ALL the metal work. I would think the "bottom line" will be staggering.

Curious how well/easy the one piece floor and one piece truck goes.......????? as we repaired misc small areas and used up some time with all the cutting and prep.

Regards,

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There is a guy in Morristown, TN that regularly does floor, trunk and inner/outer rockers on 67-69 Camaros for $1500-2000. Turn around is about two weeks. I can personally tell you that 2nd Gen Camaros take longer and cost more!

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[southernfriedcj]

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Not a rebody and actually a great example of how much work can be involved while keeping the core and being of an original car intact w/ all tags and Vins locations remaining unaltered in any way..

And each their own but aside from agreeing that this car is not a rebody, please count me as having the complete opposite views to southernfried's ideas noted above..


~ Pete

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Pete, if I was offering to give you 2 piles of parts at no charge, on the condition that you would use the parts to build one car, which would you rather have (an let's say that the contents of the piles were full documented and posted on this website so everyone knew what the finished car was made up of)?

Pile "A": a firewall/cowl with tags & numbers intact from a '69 ZL1.

Pile "B": the tags, entire engine w/ all accessories, entire transmission w/ all accessories, drive shaft and entire rearend from a '69 ZL1.

I would rather have pile "B". My rational is that I would have a nice rebodied Camaro with all the "important" ZL1 parts.
If I chose pile "A" I would have a Camaro with a ZL1 firewall.

It's just my opinion and I know I am in the minority (I would guess I could be a minority of one).

To me once the original drivetrain is gone a car might as well be a clone. JMHO, which is not shared by the market apparently.