’68 Firebird Project

After the paint dried, the door jam floor covers were installed and the front seats were bolted down with the 4 bolts.

Now it’s time to start putting the interior back together. A lot of the parts had surface rust so I wire wheel brushed the backseat frame, the headliner rods, door jam pieces, ashtray, trunk gas tank cover, rear end bumper, and the front seats. The front seats slide rail was gunked up and hard to move. I removed the springs [...]

The project is slowly coming along. This just shows the current status of it being pieced back together.

This post is just for documenting purposes showing the current mileage of 66,455. This is the original car mileage on the engine. However the below components are new or redone which marks them having somewhere around 0- 30 miles since I haven’t driven it much yet: Transmission (new fully rebuilt 200-4r) Aluminum heads (new aftermarket) Camshaft, hydraulic lifters and roller [...]

The windshield had a crack in it from when I installed the original back in the car over 15 years ago so it needed to be replaced. The most affordable place including shipping is autocityclassic.com here. Shout out to them for being great to work with and having a great product. They have three options. I went with custom Grey [...]

Here I used a gasket hole punch set to hammer out holes through the carpet for the seats to bolt through it . It was a little hassle to find the holes. To make it easy I pushed a skinny screwdriver through until I found the hole, then lifted it up to mark the area to punch out.