i jsut think its amazing that the way cars rot here, that the body was in as good of shape when you got it. hell, ive seen cars that were a quarter of its age in much much worse shape
Actually when I got it, it had tons of bondo and coke bottles stuffen in both rocker panels. Luckily, only part of the rocker panel was bad. We put in new sheet metal. I think we are going to redo the metal work there though.
It’s going at a decent pace. I just picked up a power steering unit from an 86-89 Camaro that I’m going to retrofit in it. And the quarterpanel should be welded into place tomorrow night. If so, more pics and a big smile on my face 
WS6 12.7:1 unit or the stock 14.1:1 ratio steering box?
either way, gotta be an improvement…
EDITed: (some stuff) yeah, the 14.1 i had was really go kart-ish anyways, it really doesn’t Need to be much tighter…
It was out of a 86-89 Z/28. Not honestly sure. Wasn’t going to be picky since manual steering in the Camaro sucked. And if my wife might occasionally take it for a spin, I want her to be able to handle it. As for power loss, the motor will be making enought hp that it isn’t a concern.
I have more pictures up at:
http://www.rodandpiston.com/pictures.asp?id=other_events/camarojoe
Firewall is smoothed out and primered.
Aligning body panels. Then removing them. Then reassembling them.
Room for the snky snky
I saw a real nice 1st gen at the GM show and want to do similiar in the engine compartment
:tup: sweet
Your car is going to look sick. It’s like an episode of Overhaulin’ except you have to pay for everything haha.
Actually, in Overhaulin, they have to pay taxes on it. So if you want to technically add it up, it’s about the same total but no Foose stamp on it.
I check the progress at least every other day. I have some days off next week to pound away at it. I’ll get some miles on it this summer, at least til the snow flies.
Power steering gearboxn and motor mounts are in.
I swapped a 86-89 IROC Camaro power steering unit into the Camaro. The pitman arm has to be swapped out on it and some metric adapters, but overall an easy swap. It fits into the same holes that the 69 unit used, so no drilling 
Pitman Arm pulling tools work wonderfully. It took me longer to drive to Advance Auto Parts (1 mile away) then it did for me to pull them off the 2 units.
Here is a link to the swap on the interweb:
http://69camaro.nextmill.net/steering.html
And here is a pic of the new ps gearbox and rag joint
The new motor mounts are also in. The previous owner had some custom steel mounts made, so I bought original ones to replace them. Now they don’t look ghetto.
why did u put that in b4 u painted it?
It’s residue from the soda blasting on the frame. Nothing a little clean up and masking won’t take care of
Plus when you paint a car, the steering is usually in the car already. We have to be able to move it. It’s not hard to mask either with the engine out.
More pictures up.
http://www.rodandpiston.com/pictures.asp?id=other_events/camarojoe
Interior is disassembled and at the upholstery shop.
Front end is on to line up for fit and finish. The underbody of the car is all finished. Most of the bodywork is finished, now for them to make it perfect [8D]
And I ordered some more snky snky go fast parts :tup:
Some shots:
cant wait to see when its painted :tup: this things gonna be hawt
Lenny is the fuckin man, he’s going to be building my motor for the 69 this winter hopefully. Oh and it’s going to be mean.
hurryyyyyyyy… i wanna see it before i leave damnit 