1970 GTO RESTO RUST REPAIRS by 70 Humbler

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RE: 1970 GTO RESTO RUST REPAIRS by 70 Humbler

70 Humbler · Addicted!

Hey Kim. You can throw beer cans at me anytime... as long as they're full beer cans that is.

Not the car though.

57poncho · Uber Guru

Wow you guys are moving along keep the pics coming.

lueger68 · Poncho Master!

Here's some pics from last night's progress,

Me and Mike , I wearing his coveralls LOL...

Lefty · Uber Guru

PROTECT THAT WINDOW GLASS !!
Unless you are getting new ones, nothing worse then weld burns on your glass (not Ass)

timbuk · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

hats what its ALL ABOUT right there shine on brothers!

455gto · Poncho Master!

I may throw a few full beer cans at you. It's cute how you guys are wearing each others coveralls disbelief

Show me how your going fix the back trunk lock panel.

lueger68 · Poncho Master!

Well its been a couple weeks of grinding , cutting and welding. We have made some good progress as our deadline before I move is approaching so the car has to be rust free and ready to take to the body mans place to prep for paint. Here is a bunch of pics from the last couple weeks! Its been a fun challenge fo rsure , Mikes learning lots and doing good work!

-- Edited by lueger68 on Saturday 24th of November 2012 11:35:52 PM

lueger68 · Poncho Master!

LOL ya it will tough going down to a 1 car garage , but I wont get sucked into any more restorations biggrin and I will finally be a home onwer instead of paying someone elses mortgage! Now I can just tinker on my car , but hey I have tools and will travel so you never know!!

-- Edited by lueger68 on Sunday 25th of November 2012 12:05:34 AM

lueger68 · Poncho Master!

The passenger door was pretty rotten in the bottom corner , where they all rot out. Someone years back fiberglassed it all up. We ground it all out and this is the hole we were left with! We called Dave the Tinman but he had no doors in stock , so I left Mike up to the challenge of making his own patches here, a total of 5 , pretty tough job to recreate from scratch and he did a awesome job on it!!!

More pics to come as we finish the drivers quarter and both fenders need patch work , then she's off to the body mans place!!

Kevin

70 Humbler · Addicted!

Thanks for everything Kevin. I couldn't have done it without you. Yes, we've come along way and I'm loving every moment that I get to work on my car. Too bad we have to stop soon and let you move. Lueger's speed shop will be closed forever.

timbuk · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

great i just figure out where you live then you move.......congrats on the new house!

rabbit64cs · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

gerat to hear on the house Kevin,, I'll have to stop in at your new place next time I'm out ... !!!!!

Always a treat to visit !

lueger68 · Poncho Master!

Well last night we finished up all the metal work on the GTO , it was picked up by the body man this morning! Lots of fun we had and it will be my last resto for a while. We had a total of 100 hours each into the job and it turned out really well. The body man asked us if we wanted to do some sublet metal work for him!!! Here is some pics, next pics will be the body/paint work!

lueger68 · Poncho Master!

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And this pic is the farewell , last car to be cut and welded at Luegers Speed Shop.... moving next week into our new house!

70 Humbler · Addicted!

Thanks Kevin. Man am I tired. Well worth it for sure. Job well done I say. Enjoy the pics guys.

jmont64 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Wow good job there guys. That is the way to get her done and no need to ask what you were doing in your spare time. Is fun watching your progress and congrats on your move to your new house.

lueger68 · Poncho Master!

Thanks Jerel , we saved a ton of cash doing it ourselves and why not have done quite a few now lol. Ya Mike tired is right that's what we get for burning the midnight oil till 2am last night!!

timbuk · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

llooking good guys what no mudding? Dont forget you gotta help Kev MOVE now......Good thing he only has ONE hotrod.....not like some other guys on here.....I could never move....

pontorquer · Poncho Master!

Congrats guys ! Great work ! I can't wait to see the end results ...

Magician40 · Poncho Master!

My HAT is off to both of you for doing the work yourselves. The personal satisfaction is excellent. U guys ROCK.
Brian

2drpost · Uber Guru

nice work kevin! look forward to more projects at the new downsized speed shop wink

timbuk · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

ok guys whats hapening?

70 Humbler · Addicted!

Hi Tim. Looks like you're doing some tin bashing there yourself. The last time we posted pics of the final metal work and rust repair all done and being towed to Norm's, my body man / painter. Thing was a couple nights before while we were doing repairs to the floor there was an incident were a screwdriver revealed a rotten rocker and left a pile of dust on the floor. Problem was that we couldn't repair it without lifting the body to get at it and the body bushing were on back order. We decided that we would have to fix it a Norm's since Kevin moved and Norm was ready. So while we waited Norm went to town on the body sanding, welding, heat shrinking dura-glassing the welds and priming. I spent some time at Norm's getting it ready to lift the body by disconnecting the steering column, cables and linkages etc. I went to crack the body bolts and most of them broke. I cut little doors in the trunk and floor to access the nuts for easy re-welding. When Kevin came out we had a heck of a time fixing the rockers and patching the floor but finally I can say that my car is RUST FREE. Yeah! biggrin I've been back a couple times to do some fixes like replacing the shifter cable. Turns out they don't stretch too good when you lift the body. OOPS. Norm is doing an awesome job. The lines are amazing and he's skinned blocked and primed it at least 5 times. He hopes to get it into the paint booth by March.

lueger68 · Poncho Master!

Right on Mike ya that was fun lifting the body up enough to get room to fix the inner rockers but we did it! We both got over a hundred hours each into the car! Post some pics from Norms place and show the CP gang it's looking sweet!!!!!!!