The '69 Chevelle Thread

[Barrrf]

For me to tell you (Cez) what Ive been up to since I sold my Agoooosta back in May.

First, this is going to be the longest (time wise, not post wise) pro-touring build maybe on the planet. I dont have the funds to just do EVERYTHING I WANT to do right now so Im going to drive, tinker, drive, tinker then eventually REDO. My plan is to start with the interior and get that updated. Then move onto suspension. Then Drivetrain. Then body off overhaul. FYI, I paid $13k for the car and didnt see it before I paid for it. Lesson learned.

Here it is as it sat at the sellers house in May.
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/IMG_0375.jpg
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/IMG_0372.jpg
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/IMG_0374.jpg

Specs are as follows -
396 60 over 9.6:1
roller hydraulic valvetrain
Ported and Balanced and Blueprinted
Keith Black Pistons
Edlebrock Performer RPM 8.5cfm
Edlebrock Pro 2.0 intake
Accel Performance Distributor
Accel Hi Temp Spiral Core Plug Wires
Headman ceramic coated headers
Flowmaster 50 series Dual 3" mufflers
MSD Igintion system
Holley Performance Fuel System
Camaro Power Steering System
Hurst Shifter
4" Cowl Fiberglass hood with locking pins

Doug Nash Ent. hybridized Super T10 close ratio
Centerforce Dual Friction Clutch
12 Bolt real axle
Clutch type posi w/3.31 gears
Custom Driveshaft

Hotchkis Rear 4 Link with Drag Bags
All new bushings, seals, lines throughout
All new brakes, Discs in front, Drum in rear

And then the fun begins -
So I started doing things to my car recently. Here's some pics of the bullshit Im going to have to fix someday. I order some vinyl for the dash and a-pillars. And started tearing plastics off to paint them. Just picking away, here and there.

Why is there a camaro wheel on my column?
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/Camaro.jpg

What once was blue and then was black is now blue again with a little degreaser
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/BlueandBlack.jpg

(A few weeks ago) And now for the WTF moment of the day - I was taking some friends for a ride when I noticed it was unusally hot in the car. So I reached down to the floor to feel HOT air coming through the carpet seam. Like blow dryer hot. So I pulled the carpet up a couple days later to find this hack job (less the silicone and marine epoxy). The "patch panel" had pulled all of the self tappers out and was letting HOT air come up through. So I bought bigger self tappers, some marine grade epoxy, and a tube of trusty silicone and made a semi permanent (at least until it happens again or I can afford the body off resto) fix to it. Now no more heat! Make no mistake - I KNOW THIS IS THE RIGHT WAY TO DO IT but it is the way to do it RIGHT NOW. This will be fixed the right away at a later date.

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/HackJerb.jpg

Derpacolor the license plate bracket - it was a rusty piece but I sand blasted, rust inhibited, then duplicolored it.
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/Chevelle%20Photo%20Log/DSC00931.jpg

Whats behind the glove box? A bunch of old nasty firewall insulation and some wires for whatever the fuck -
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/Chevelle%20Photo%20Log/DSC00930.jpg

And now Im going to start painting things on the inside. I already did those blue kick panels black with SEM (shit is awesome). I've decided to paint the metal parts Ultra Silver Metallic and keep the rest of the black stuff black. Im going to cover the dash and A pillars in Whisper Vinyl black. Eventually, I'll do custom door panels with silver suede inserts (probably this winter as Id like to complete a custom center console at the same time).

Needs cleared yet -
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/Chevelle%20Photo%20Log/DSC00938.jpg

Pic is dark but I reinstalled the kicks - I'll get better pics when its light out
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/Chevelle%20Photo%20Log/DSC00934.jpg

And this last weekend -
Doing more things on the car -

Remember those blue kick panels from above?
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/Chevelle%20Photo%20Log/DSC00940.jpg

Painted Cluster carrier - did not smooth. Too many broken mounting tabs to want to put work into the panel other than paint. Its black but the sun makes it look lighter.
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/Chevelle%20Photo%20Log/DSC00948.jpg

Got the metal part of the dash painted Ultra Silver Metallic. Just need wifey to stitch up the leather dash pad cover and start reassembling.
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/Chevelle%20Photo%20Log/DSC00949.jpg
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/Chevelle%20Photo%20Log/DSC00951.jpg

Also started polishing the dash trim piece. I highly recommend the Dremel polishing kit for these smaller pieces. YOu can see in the pic the part that is polished and the part I havent hit yet.
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/Chevelle%20Photo%20Log/DSC00957.jpg

I sanded and polished the lens for the gauge panel. It was covered in black over spray from previous doucher who decided it was a good idea to paint everything black inside the car without taking any of it out.
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/DSC00969.jpg
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/DSC00968.jpg

After and mounted into freshly painted carrier
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/DSC00984.jpg

Covered the a-pillars in Whisper Vinyl
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/DSC00980.jpg

And mounted license plate
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/DSC00976.jpg

I color matched the chrome bezels around the tail lights this weekend. The chrome was pitted beyond repair so I decided to see how I would like the color vs the chrome before I went out to buy new ones. Thoughts?

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/colormatched.jpg

Pulled original cracked up dash pad and had it covered at local upholstery shop. Its not perfect, but aint bad either.

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/DashPad4.jpg

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/DashPad3.jpg

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/DashPad2.jpg

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/DashPad1.jpg

And installed dash pad - Also shown is , gauge bezel painted, metal dash part painted silver along with column, A-pillars covered with soft touch vinyl (really nice stuff), kick panels redyed black, vents painted black, tach reloacted from top center of dash. Im going to call the dash area done for now until I can fund VHX gauges, new carrier, and ididit column. My next thing to do is find a nice steering wheel. Then in a couple weeks I'll start on the door panels - I figure this to be a good month long project.

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/IMG_5383_zpsd7f1be11.jpg

Now looking for a steering wheel - chain link maybe?

[lowerc]

R....


http://www.gmfullsize.com/forum/showthread.php?t=258699

[theholycow]

That Camaro steering wheel doesn't look so bad, probably came with the Camaro power steering system.

I like the shifter.

That driver's seat looks modern and out-of-place. What's up with that?

[Manbearpig]

Color of that bish is absolute sex

DO WANT!

[BillyJeanKing]

veddy nice

[Barrrf]

R....


http://www.gmfullsize.com/forum/showthread.php?t=258699

You shut up - I was scolded for not sharing. :crossarms:

That Camaro steering wheel doesn't look so bad, probably came with the Camaro power steering system.

I like the shifter.

That driver's seat looks modern and out-of-place. What's up with that?

Seats came from the same place the steering wheel came from - Camaro. Which is also where the side view mirrors came from.

Those will be replaced in the next few months with Cipher Auto Seats or BMW M3 seats with the seat belts built into them.

[stonehenge]

Luckily I was in the baffroom at work when I saw this thread. Made fapping easier.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

[shootermcgavin003]

nice car man. sebring seats have the belts in them too. the tail trim looks good body color. my 66 im doing all that pitted stuff up with a powder coat that mimics brushed aluminum.

[Cez★]

You shut up - I was scolded for not sharing. :crossarms:



Seats came from the same place the steering wheel came from - Camaro. Which is also where the side view mirrors came from.

Those will be replaced in the next few months with Cipher Auto Seats or BMW M3 seats with the seat belts built into them.

:sheeky:



:stickfap:

[lowerc]

You shut up - I was scolded for not sharing. :crossarms:



I'm just bitter because :ijelly:

Sweet ride.

[Barrrf]

nice car man. sebring seats have the belts in them too. the tail trim looks good body color. my 66 im doing all that pitted stuff up with a powder coat that mimics brushed aluminum.

Im honestly doing to it to see if I'll like it for whenever I get to the body work on it. I just dont like the chrome with the black inset. Even the brand new stuff I dont think would look as good as color matched stuff. I'll probably just keep the window trims all chrome / stainless and color match errything else.

Ive got new problems now. Need to swap heater core out and figure out why Im running rich on the drivers side.
:fuckinthingsucks:

[Keeler]

That a true SS?

Sent from my teepee

[shootermcgavin003]

dont look like it but who cares

[Barrrf]

Sure is NOT. '69 SS cars didnt come with A/C. So fkn easy to clone tho. Not that I would or want to.

In order to get to the heater core you have to pull all of the bolts out of the condenser box on the firewall and this allows you to pull the heater core box out from under dash AFTER you remove some of the A/C duct work AND the glove box. Getting to the condenser box bolts requires removing the passenger side inner fender which is bolted on by j-clips. Half of the J-clips were rusted and stripped so I had to cut the inner fender off. So I just blew $300 on 2 new inner fenders and a battery tray plus new fasteners. Cuz new.

[stonehenge]

:scared:

[shootermcgavin003]

forgot that but yeah

looks like it cloned already since that has a ss badge on it

[Barrrf]

Mostly cloned. Its missing things like chrome trim around the running lights, console, ect ect.

I dont fuckin care. I didnt want a numbers car anyways because Im going to be cutting, hacking, modifying. Which I wouldnt have done if the car was worth a gazillion dollhairs.

[shootermcgavin003]

same with me on my buick........or buicks now

[Vestough]

For me to tell you (Cez) what Ive been up to since I sold my Agoooosta back in May.

First, this is going to be the longest (time wise, not post wise) pro-touring build maybe on the planet. I dont have the funds to just do EVERYTHING I WANT to do right now so Im going to drive, tinker, drive, tinker then eventually REDO. My plan is to start with the interior and get that updated. Then move onto suspension. Then Drivetrain. Then body off overhaul. FYI, I paid $13k for the car nice led lights (http://www.allOffTopic.com) and didnt see it before I paid for it. Lesson learned.

Here it is as it sat at the sellers house in May.
[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/IMG_0375.jpg[IMG]
[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/IMG_0372.jpg[IMG]
[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/IMG_0374.jpg[IMG]

Specs are as follows -
396 60 over 9.6:1
roller hydraulic valvetrain
Ported and Balanced and Blueprinted
Keith Black Pistons
Edlebrock Performer RPM 8.5cfm
Edlebrock Pro 2.0 intake
Accel Performance Distributor
Accel Hi Temp Spiral Core Plug Wires
Headman ceramic coated headers
Flowmaster 50 series Dual 3" mufflers
MSD Igintion system
Holley Performance Fuel System
Camaro Power Steering System
Hurst Shifter
4" Cowl Fiberglass hood with locking pins

Doug Nash Ent. hybridized Super T10 close ratio
Centerforce Dual Friction Clutch
12 Bolt real axle
Clutch type posi w/3.31 gears
Custom Driveshaft

Hotchkis Rear 4 Link with Drag Bags
All new bushings, seals, lines throughout
All new brakes, Discs in front, Drum in rear

And then the fun begins -
So I started doing things to my car recently. Here's some pics of the bullshit Im going to have to fix someday. I order some vinyl for the dash and a-pillars. And started tearing plastics off to paint them. Just picking away, here and there.

Why is there a camaro wheel on my column?
[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/Camaro.jpg[IMG]

What once was blue and then was black is now blue again with a little degreaser
[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/BlueandBlack.jpg[IMG]

(A few weeks ago) And now for the WTF moment of the day - I was taking some friends for a ride when I noticed it was unusally hot in the car. So I reached down to the floor to feel HOT air coming through the carpet seam. Like blow dryer hot. So I pulled the carpet up a couple days later to find this hack job (less the silicone and marine epoxy). The "patch panel" had pulled all of the self tappers out and was letting HOT air come up through. So I bought bigger self tappers, some marine grade epoxy, and a tube of trusty silicone and made a semi permanent (at least until it happens again or I can afford the body off resto) fix to it. Now no more heat! Make no mistake - I KNOW THIS IS THE RIGHT WAY TO DO IT but it is the way to do it RIGHT NOW. This will be fixed the right away at a later date.

[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/HackJerb.jpg[IMG]

Derpacolor the license plate bracket - it was a rusty piece but I sand blasted, rust inhibited, then duplicolored it.
[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/Chevelle%20Photo%20Log/DSC00931.jpg[IMG]

Whats behind the glove box? A bunch of old nasty firewall insulation and some wires for whatever the fuck -
[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/Chevelle%20Photo%20Log/DSC00930.jpg[IMG]

And now Im going to start painting things on the inside. I already did those blue kick panels black with SEM (shit is awesome). I've decided to paint the metal parts Ultra Silver Metallic and keep the rest of the black stuff black. Im going to cover the dash and A pillars in Whisper Vinyl black. Eventually, I'll do custom door panels with silver suede inserts (probably this winter as Id like to complete a custom center console at the same time).

Needs cleared yet -
[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/Chevelle%20Photo%20Log/DSC00938.jpg[IMG]

Pic is dark but I reinstalled the kicks - I'll get better pics when its light out
[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/Chevelle%20Photo%20Log/DSC00934.jpg[IMG]

And this last weekend -
Doing more things on the car -

Remember those blue kick panels from above?
[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/Chevelle%20Photo%20Log/DSC00940.jpg[IMG]

Painted Cluster carrier - did not smooth. Too many broken mounting tabs to want to put work into the panel other than paint. Its black but the sun makes it look lighter.
[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/Chevelle%20Photo%20Log/DSC00948.jpg[IMG]

Got the metal part of the dash painted Ultra Silver Metallic. Just need wifey to stitch up the leather dash pad cover and start reassembling.
[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/Chevelle%20Photo%20Log/DSC00949.jpg[IMG]
[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/Chevelle%20Photo%20Log/DSC00951.jpg[IMG]

Also started polishing the dash trim piece. I highly recommend the Dremel polishing kit for these smaller pieces. YOu can see in the pic the part that is polished and the part I havent hit yet.
[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/Chevelle%20Photo%20Log/DSC00957.jpg[IMG]

I sanded and polished the lens for the gauge panel. It was covered in black over spray from previous doucher who decided it was a good idea to paint everything black inside the car without taking any of it out.
[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/DSC00969.jpg[IMG]
[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/DSC00968.jpg[IMG]

After and mounted into freshly painted carrier
[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/DSC00984.jpg[IMG]

Covered the a-pillars in Whisper Vinyl
[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/DSC00980.jpg[IMG]

And mounted license plate
[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/DSC00976.jpg[IMG]

I color matched the chrome bezels around the tail lights this weekend. The chrome was pitted beyond repair so I decided to see how I would like the color vs the chrome before I went out to buy new ones. Thoughts?

[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/colormatched.jpg[IMG]

Pulled original cracked up dash pad and had it covered at local upholstery shop. Its not perfect, but aint bad either.

[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/DashPad4.jpg[IMG]

[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/DashPad3.jpg[IMG]

[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/DashPad2.jpg[IMG]

[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/DashPad1.jpg[IMG]

And installed dash pad - Also shown is , gauge bezel painted, metal dash part painted silver along with column, A-pillars covered with soft touch vinyl (really nice stuff), kick panels redyed black, vents painted black, tach reloacted from top center of dash. Im going to call the dash area done for now until I can fund VHX gauges, new carrier, and ididit column. My next thing to do is find a nice steering wheel. Then in a couple weeks I'll start on the door panels - I figure this to be a good month long project.

[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/barthautala/IMG_5383_zpsd7f1be11.jpg[IMG]

Now looking for a steering wheel - chain link maybe?
From where you got this red beauty I am searching for it

[MFB]

From where you got this red beauty I am searching for it

great more of diafgts peoples

[theholycow]

great more of diafgts peoples

IP is in Philadelphia, PA. Maybe they're using a proxy to try to fool you? You see right through it. I wish I could be as cool as you.

[MFB]

IP is in Philadelphia, PA. Maybe they're using a proxy to try to fool you? You see right through it. I wish I could be as cool as you.

takes much practice cao

[Cez★]

cumstain had to quote all the fucking pics too :facepalm: