bigBlockMopars
A School of Fish
The first fish we picked up back in 2008, this is a 69 barracuda Formula S, came with a 383 and an auto on the floor. Interior was ivy green (seats and carpet) while the exterior was also F8 Ivy Green Metallic. This 5 year resto story that had a grocery list of surprises (good and bad) is almost coming to an end, heres where we are at. We have used a place called auto image; based out of camarillo CA, to do all of our metal and paint work. Also a special thanks to Gary flowers in Northern CA who has supplied us with most of the original sheetmetal we needed.
Back in 08 in our alley the car sat
Auto Image stripped the car down, took to sand blaster (took the blasters 3 go rounds to get it right for our resto guy). The car was primered black and sat on a rotisserie untill last summer.
Gave them extra parts they requested, a whole new *** end of a 69 fastback,passenger door, inner fenders, etc. But most of the body was in really good shape it was more of a preference thing with his body guy. This was in August of last year and we walked in February to see the progress....
The front needed some work
Everything they cut out of the front
Overview of the car, progressed pretty well besides the front end
Rear tail light housing, quarter and behind the bumper was pretty messed up from a previous accident and the repair was horribly done. (hard to see I know)
Heres the progress as of yesterday
He reshaped the complete housing and fixed the bracket behind it
Fixed lower quarter
Fabricated the lower exaust cut outs for it, our original *** end had them but this one only had the passenger side for some reason
Matched the lines on the rear drivers side to match the passengers side
Progress on the front, still waiting for inner fenders gave him oem ones that turned out not so well in his opinion.
My dad to the left and the owner, Marcus on the right. Inner fenders and a few tiny things and this thing will be ready for paint.
The new toy we bought from WA aka fish # 2(69 440 Cuda' with a hell of a history), we had it shipped to auto image so the team could get every detail they wanted to know about or answer any question they had.
Before we left yesterday we got a set of wheels for our troubles, and numerous amounts of checks.
Back in 08 in our alley the car sat
Auto Image stripped the car down, took to sand blaster (took the blasters 3 go rounds to get it right for our resto guy). The car was primered black and sat on a rotisserie untill last summer.
Gave them extra parts they requested, a whole new *** end of a 69 fastback,passenger door, inner fenders, etc. But most of the body was in really good shape it was more of a preference thing with his body guy. This was in August of last year and we walked in February to see the progress....
The front needed some work
Everything they cut out of the front
Overview of the car, progressed pretty well besides the front end
Rear tail light housing, quarter and behind the bumper was pretty messed up from a previous accident and the repair was horribly done. (hard to see I know)
Heres the progress as of yesterday
He reshaped the complete housing and fixed the bracket behind it
Fixed lower quarter
Fabricated the lower exaust cut outs for it, our original *** end had them but this one only had the passenger side for some reason
Matched the lines on the rear drivers side to match the passengers side
Progress on the front, still waiting for inner fenders gave him oem ones that turned out not so well in his opinion.
My dad to the left and the owner, Marcus on the right. Inner fenders and a few tiny things and this thing will be ready for paint.
The new toy we bought from WA aka fish # 2(69 440 Cuda' with a hell of a history), we had it shipped to auto image so the team could get every detail they wanted to know about or answer any question they had.
Before we left yesterday we got a set of wheels for our troubles, and numerous amounts of checks.
and yes we are going back to all original colors.
