A car with no name. by 67catmando

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This is what it looks like back on the car. 

I will have to do a little fine tuning to get the tips to center up with a consistent gap but I will do that after paint.

Yes it was a piece of flat 3/16" steel cut to the shape of the cut out and then contoured to match the curve of the valance and welded onto it. That white valance on the ground is the first pass at it. It fit the exhaust perfect but it had some bondo at the opening that wouldn't allow for the trim to be added. So I started with a second straight bondo free valance.

6-13-2015

It has been a while...I dropped my car off at the body shop in June of 2014! It is still there. However, I have been taking progress pictures and getting some side projects done. I thought it was about time I posted an update. 

The car is coming out great. The body man is meticulous. He even painted the car once just to check the body work, fine tuned it and painted it again. All of the mods are coming out great and I am pleased with the results. 

The shaved drip rails look great. Here it is in primer, which I think shows the effect better than some of the color pics

Here are the front and rear extensions in primer:

The hood needed some special fitting to deal with the fact that I am not using any trim on it. Here are the results.

Here is the shaved hockey stick. This was kind of tricky because without the drip rail, the hockey stick has nothing to attach to so it had to be shaved too. This complicated the door fitment because the door rides about 3/16th higher than the quarter under the window.

You can see it caused a contouring issue:

However, it disappears in the color coat because it is so dark.

The area behind the rear quarter window was also smoothed. As was the full run over the windows. 

Shaved doors...

I had the custom rear valance shaved/welded in. It came out great. There is probably a reason not to do this, but I couldn't think of one that would be worse than cutting a couple of spring bolts...so I decided to do it.

Custom rear exhaust valance "flanges" (is that the right word?) 

Get a load of the shaved cowl vents. I am very happy with this mod. I am left with some figuring to do in order to get air into the heater box. However, since it is fiberglass, I figured I could rework it easily enough to draw air from the front vs the top. More to come on this snowball.

Oh and as you can see the hole for the antenna was shaved to. 

Had the fenders rolled for the big wheels

In clear still wet.

In the sun. It takes full sunlight to see the blue. Otherwise it looks black.

Here is how the shaved front plate is coming out. The center medallion was shaved and the hood was contoured to fit without trim. The center sheet metal is still in need of body work as is the rock shield. Both will be body color. As you can see the bumper needs to be lifted a bit in the middle. That was what this fitting was for. I have since removed it and returned it to the bumper/chromer for last tweaks. 

Oh and as you can see the license plate depression was also shaved from the front valance as well as the parking lamps/turn signals. I like the way it came out. 

I got another coat of black powdercoating done. Including the engine braces and another set of headlamp doors and parts. I They came out great this time. Last time I broke a piece and another piece had bubbling. One of the plates that goes over the lights had a new dent from softening up in the oven. Not bad considering people advise against powdercoating pot metal parts. I will be assembling it all soon. But first I need to finish cleaning bolts and doing an oil and phosphate. 

Oh yeah, I had all front and rear window trim and the over the door trim powder coated black too. I will have to do the window stainless and quarter window trim done too.

I plan to tuck 69 Mach 1 turn signals in the corners of the lower valance.