66 Rag

nwx · Veteran Member

66 Rag

65 SD L79 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

that is a very solid peice you have there. A great car to start with. Can we have a close up shot of the cowl tag please. Keep the pictures coming, we like lots of pictures and history on the car

57poncho · Uber Guru

We love build treads, it's like being there seeing all the pics.

CdnGMfan · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

The car looks like a nice place to start. What a great project!

nwx · Veteran Member

I will get a shot of the cowl tag next week and I will take some time to snap some more pictures. I only get to work on the car on Thursdays as it is about an hour away from my house. I was able to get the front suspension off and have begun media blasting all of the parts.

Pontiacanada · A Poncho Legend!

Your car looks pretty clean to start with! Have fun!

427carl · A Poncho Legend!

nwx wrote:
I will get a shot of the cowl tag next week and I will take some time to snap some more pictures. I only get to work on the car on Thursdays as it is about an hour away from my house. I was able to get the front suspension off and have begun media blasting all of the parts.

The car has been dissasembled for paint.

Sadly, I am not in the position to do a proper paint job at this point so I am just going to put the whole thing back together

Right now I am finishing the tear down on the front suspension and setting up a media blast station to get everything cleaned up and repainted.-----------------------------------------------------------------

You are taking it all apart... blasting all the parts (suspension) and putting it all together and NOT painting it?

Is that not more expensive in the long run (re:taking it all apart again down the road?)

nwx · Veteran Member

427carl wrote:
You are taking it all apart... blasting all the parts (suspension) and putting it all together and NOT painting it?
Is that not more expensive in the long run (re:taking it all apart again down the road?)

Actually the paint is pretty nice already and a proper paint job will be another $6-$10k, the work I am doing now is labor intensive, it is not costing me an arm and a leg. Ideally, I would LOVE to spray the car at this point, the fact is I just dont have that kind of money to spend. And I would rather wait to do the paint right rather than a cheap paint job now. I can take the car back apart in a few years when I am ready.

427carl · A Poncho Legend!

Go ahead biggrin you have my permisson wink wink

nwx · Veteran Member

427carl wrote:
Go ahead you have my permisson

BAM!

03cts sport · Uber Guru

If that is original paint (which it may be considering the low mileage), in many ways I think it's better to keep it with the "survivor" paint.
Keep them photo's coming!...

kelico · Poncho Master!

Very very nice

dualquadpete · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Save you money & enjoy the car when it's on the road!!!! It'll just get chipped anyway???

nwx · Veteran Member

Now that the holidays are over, I did get a chance to work on this a bit. I also happened across a local company, Biscay's Classic Chevy http://www.biscaysclassic.com/ . They are actually about 40 minutes from me, have a HUGE inventory and know thier stuff.

One interesting thing was when I cleaned up the motor, the block was blue and the heads were orange. It does have a casting # 3834810 which is the right years. Were they painted like this from the factory? The car only has 65k miles but the internals look like the motor may have been gone through at some point. The heads are canadian though.

nwx · Veteran Member

nwx · Veteran Member

I did fire up the sand blaster a bit and began cleaning up some of the front end and misc parts

nwx · Veteran Member

And the cowl tag.. It looks like the car has been painted at some point.. there is very little overspray but I will bet this is not the original color combo. One of the rear 1/4 interior panels have a sticker that indicates 1992