alright so i got this car at the beginning of the summer and the car was not in the greatest of shape....





as you can see the car was painted flat black and it was fading and looked horrible, that part of the reason i was able to pick it up for 700. the starter needed shim so the car made horrible noise when you turned it over and only the previous owner seemed to be able to get it started with the way that carb was set up, otherwise you had to manually make the starter disengage. the car also ran hot and the coolant was a light shade of brown.
all wasn't bad though, the car has a 355 in it and is semi built, it has 3 inch straight through exhaust, and it came with a nice b&m ratchet shifter. oh yea and how can i forget the t tops that don't leak!

it wasn't long until i started working on the body, heres a few highlights


at this point in the project my father and i had fabbed our own air deflector to help with the cooling and had already done some major work on the body, specifics coming in the next post

okay we have fixed (mostly) large rip/tear in the front body effects picture below


and after some work



alright at this point we found a new hood to put on it, its a louvered style z28 hood, here it on the car

okay, the next thing we did was start on the engine compartment, this is how it looked when i first got it


and after a good degreasing, new air cleaner, new water neck, and paint heres how it sits now


closer to engine



i don't think these picture really do it justice, im going to have to take some alter when the sun isn't shining directly on it

What did you use to spray the primer? If you have a gun I would say you should go with painting it your self . I get my paint from paintforcars.com . For about $150 you can get a kit that comes with all the reducers hardeners primer and paint you need . Nice quality stuff too. I just painted a boat with the $150 kit using a harbor freight $8 gravity gun and it came out amazing . Even for it being painted in a front yard under a tree

all the primer is from a can, we don't have a compressor or a gun to spray it with, and that's why we aren't 100% on doing it ourselves. to do it here we would have to make our own paint booth outside and then still have to buy/borrow everything else. right now there's still plenty of work to be done so when we get to the point that its ready, we will decide then. also another option is to rent our friends garage who has everything and all we need would be the paint.

id say you got a good deal for 700 dollars
keep us updated
i would like to see where this goes

Big improvement in the engine bay. Like the new air cleaner too.

Looks good. Just one thing though... Wouldn't it be easier to just remove the taillights before you paint it? Instead of risking getting paint on the lights even if you mask them?

Just an idea...looks great though.

thanks for all the compliments, since i updated last we have gotten a air compressor and a paint gun to shoot the car with. also we have taken out the headlights, taillights, and such

since my last post, we have moved and we now have a 2 car garage where she sits safely awaiting the day i can afford to get her painted