I had mixed feelings on the vinyl lined hardtop that this model firebird came factory with but I decided to remove it. Everyone has their own preference. In my option, I didn’t like it because: it didn’t look modern it looked like a faux convertible that was trying to be something it wasn’t it was more prone to rust at [...]
I used the sandblaster on the front fender extensions because it was a bit rusted. Then I used body filler to fill in the pits that the rust made. I now realize it is best to just buy replacement parts for these because they are only about $40 each. The front valance panel had some surface rust also. I used [...]
The passenger fender was installed a week or two earlier. Then I cleaned up under the hood and brushed on the rust oleum gloss black oil based paint. I read online that some folks mixed in a hardener to make it just about as good as products like chassis saver. But then I also read that hardener is not needed [...]
The best paint imo for rust and making non body panel surfaces cleaned up is Chassis Saver. Instead of driving around town for it, I tried rust oleum rust and reform. It seems decent but I later switch to regular ole black rust oleum oil based paint. For the price, the oil based product doesn’t seem much worse than chassis [...]
After over 10 years of pausing work on the 68 bird, I decided to pick up where I left off. The body panels were still off the car. I had to hammer out some dings. Then rework the metal patch that was welded in the bottom side by grinding out some edges. A little more weld was added and then [...]
After the fail with hoisting the engine on a lift plate, I decided to just use a engine lift bar. The bar or beam basically hangs over the middle of the engine and has four chains which can be bolted down to the 4 sides of the block. Once you have the engine lift bar bolted down, you can slowly [...]
