1967 Corvette

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Additinonal Pages  Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13         CONTINUATION OF THE BUILD Rear Body  - 9/16-21 Sealed and 2K primer applied         Guide Coat sprayed, ready for blocking Blocking turned out great         2K primer applied, now it is time to guide-coat the deck lid then block it out         Rear Body  - 9/25-27 Sadie, our youngest granddaughter wanted to come out to the shop to help on the '67. The whole car is now sealed and in 2k primer             The custom-built header spacers arrived, the testing of Header/Sidepipe clearance on the full rocker is a success         Door Hinges - 9/26-28 William cleaning up and preparing the door hinges for paint         Test Fit of the Rear Bumpers - 10/18 Checking the fit of the rear fascia and bumpers ...can you say 10' looks good - up close does not :(           Needed another pair of skinny wheels to roll the '67 around - these are from our '93           Tinkering with an Idea - Rear Diffusers - 10/19-30 Wanting to hide the ugly under the bumpers (see picture above) ...and came up with an idea of a rear diffuser to hide that area - this version has 4 diffusers         The top piece of the diffuser would fit the edge of the bumper once the bumpers are tucked 3/4"         This version has 3 diffusers to match the number of taillights         Time to tuck the bumpers Cut all the mounting tabs off, metal to be removed, then weld 'em - nice tuck -->>         Now the final mock-up can be done on the diffuser panel the design hides the ugly bottom side of the bumper         The 3 phases of diffuser fin creation - lay glass, cut shape then grind/same smooth         the backing plate is pretty much finished, test fitting the diffuser fins           The left side diffuser fins and bumper modesty panel is laid up in fiberglass           used a long bolt, some thin wire w/weights to allow us center the diffuser fins with the center of each taillight         The right diffuser fins are bonded to the backing panel, allow us to see how the end-game panel will look         Doug documenting the progress from below - completely hiding the ugly underside of the bumpers         laying the 1st layer of glass to permanently bond the fins to the backing panel 1st layer of glass down - now to sand a nice radius and fill any small voids           William laying glass to extend the edge of the Left backing panel, then to do all this again           The rear diffusers are complete, waiting on a warm day to lay the sealer and first coat of primer         Tinkering with another idea - Front Wind Wings - 11/19-23 A pet peeve of mine is the ugly brackets on the front bumpers - there are 2 choices, cut & move the brackets in which requires one to narrow the bumpers ...or design and build a front diffuser type fin that we see on numerous race cars.         The decision was to build the fins first and see how we liked them - we are liking it!         The fins will attach to the front outer bumper bolt - it is rigid enough there won't be any bounce or the possibility of touching the body.         accomplishes two issues - covers the ugly bumper bracket - it also carries a sports car theme to front of the '67             Tinkering with another Idea - Lowering the floors- 11/23-27 Another bothersome area ...the front of the C6 seats sitting too high due to the electronics, not only unattractive but they just didn't fit like I wanted them to.         measure twice, cut once ...cutting out the area that will be lowered to match the rear of the floorboard it always looks ugly before it looks awesome         Measure, and set the level, with tape to hold the panel in place then fiberglass patches are used to attach it in that location         <- William applying a little heat to kick start drying ...then on to the driver's side ->         The remaining areas of the passenger's side was completed         <- torn pieces of fiberglass, ready for being bonded fiberglass resin to bond the driver's side to complete it - >             Test Fit of the Bumpers & Grill - 11/27 to full test and finish the front winglets, we needed to test fit bumpers - then altering the '64 grill, etc.         Another Thought - Front Spoiler - 11/28 Can't really do this until we have a ride height determined - but getting ideas         Time to Prime - 11/29 & 12/05-06 We had a day that was in the upper 70s today - time to lay the next coat of primer on the '67             This customized decklid has come a long way this is the before picture of this decklid         1st sealer & heavy coat of primer on the rear diffusers & winglets         Spraying numerous one-off custom parts that have previously been primed, then blocked         parts are looking good ...almost paint ready         The rear diffusers and front winglets are turning out great         Things are Looking Good - 12/09 Panels & the body have been gapped and blocked numerous times. It will enjoy this primer coat until after the bottom side totally finished and the body is put back on the frame for the last time         The dropped floorboards are ready for the HOK KD3000 sealer & 2k primer         Finished Floorboard & Seat Frame Modifications - 12/27-31 Building & Test Fitting the new front seat brackets         Priming the finished floorboards         Final Test Fit of the modified seat frames with their new brackets

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