1967 ss/rs resto/mod

[Steve Shauger]

Hi Mitch here are the pics you requested. LMK if you need others. Taken on my 67 L78 survivor

[Too Many Projects]

After I got the reverse light holes made, I moved on to the trunk latch bracket. This is after a week soaking in Evaporust to soften the black paint sprayed over the spatter and the spatter itself. During test fitting, I discovered this was still twisted from the crash too and had to bend it around to fit straight.

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After shooting with SPI epoxy.

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I was able to spot weld the top to avoid welding and cleaning that in the seal channel.

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Threw some sloppy welds on the bottom, to mimic the factory ones I cut out...

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Then I cut off the rusted right rain gutter...

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Went at it with the crud thug for an hour and chewed all the rust off.

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Bought a set of Dynacorn gutters.

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Cut it down to fit what I had removed.

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Cut the flange that would have gone under the roof to fit below the existing flange for mounting.

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It fit and followed the roof very well.

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This will get butt welded after the panel bond cement cures.

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I forgot to take a pic with all the clamps on. I had 9 clamps holding it in place. It is very sturdy after curing.

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[Too Many Projects]

I have a friend who owned a body repair business for 40 yrs, who retired and sold the business a year ago. His wife passed from Dementia a few months back and he's trying to find things to do to keep himself occupied. He ASKED if he could come over and work on the Camaro. I didn't turn him down. He's been production all his life and I had to work on him to slow down and relax. This is RESTORATION work and there is no time limit. I'll just post some progress pics of the last few weeks.













The roof was a mess. It had a lot of rust popping thru the old paint and was blistered from the previous person using a disc grinder to go after the deep rust. I cleaned nearly all the rust out of the pits with my crud thug and made the blisters a little worse... There's quite a few hours in that roof here and we did more before sealer/primer. In reality, I should have replaced the roof skin, but it is what it is now.









Today, we got it in the first real coat of SPI primer/sealer and got to see all the little "stuff' we still need to do better on, but it isn't as much of a multi colored mutt anymore.