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Re: Matt's 1970 'Trans-Am' Cuda
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 19 7:33 am
by Matt
Bit more progress last couple of days
Before cutting the car up, made an additional jig for later use, to locate the rear frame rails.
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Then able to cut out large pieces . Won't need this bit anymore !
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Once that was out , the front sections of the rails could be carefully picked off the rear floor etc
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New pieces initial mockup/placement. After a bit of clamping and squeezing it looks like the fit of the new AMD parts will be very good indeed.
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Re: Matt's 1970 'Trans-Am' Cuda
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 19 9:16 am
by Pete
Have you retired now Matt???
Re: Matt's 1970 'Trans-Am' Cuda
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 19 10:01 am
by Matt
Sadly not Pete !
Although on the plus side I've bought the car into Work, where it's warm and I can also get some help with it !
I'm booked in to take the shell to the blasters next Wednesday, so I'm on a bit of a schedule to get some inital repairs done beforehand.
Before the shell gets blasted I also want to remove the front floorpan, and remove the upper cowl panel - there's areas under the cowl that will need blasting/repair.
Re: Matt's 1970 'Trans-Am' Cuda
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 19 10:42 am
by andyrob
fantastic progess
Re: Matt's 1970 'Trans-Am' Cuda
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 19 1:54 pm
by Dave81
Well done Matt......Wish i had the skill to do this kind of stuff!!!
Re: Matt's 1970 'Trans-Am' Cuda
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 19 2:50 pm
by ScottyDave
Wow good stuff, going be a busy week to meet the blaster deadline
Re: Matt's 1970 'Trans-Am' Cuda
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 19 3:48 pm
by Derek
I'm liking this a lot.
Re: Matt's 1970 'Trans-Am' Cuda
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 19 5:56 pm
by autofetish
Re: Matt's 1970 'Trans-Am' Cuda
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 19 6:36 pm
by R.RUNNER
Re: Matt's 1970 'Trans-Am' Cuda
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 19 6:41 pm
by Matt
Got the cowl panel under the windscreen removed. Raided the scrap metal pile and built a Rotisserie over the weekend .
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Borrowed Bartek and Darek from work yesterday to scrape off the underseal with the aid of a heat gun and blowtorch
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Dropped the car off at the blasters near Gatwick this morning. I didn't get time in the end to remove the front floorpan but no big deal. The blaster does mostly classic cars and is building a race car himself.
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Some areas already blasted and primed by this evening.
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The AMD floorpan is due to arrive on Monday, so intend to get that and the torsion bar crossmember fitted next week, a few other patches, then it's off to have the roll cage installed.
Re: Matt's 1970 'Trans-Am' Cuda
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 19 7:11 pm
by andyrob
super quick work !
Re: Matt's 1970 'Trans-Am' Cuda
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 19 7:32 pm
by Matt
Yes I'm on a bit of a mission with this one. I want it ready for the Spring.
I've got pretty much all the parts here ready to go on - it's the bodywork that's going to take the time.
Flaring the rear arches is going to be interesting.
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Re: Matt's 1970 'Trans-Am' Cuda
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 19 11:07 pm
by autofetish
Re: Matt's 1970 'Trans-Am' Cuda
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 19 12:05 pm
by MrNorm
Re: Matt's 1970 'Trans-Am' Cuda
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 19 9:28 pm
by 68Roadrunner
Wow, super quick progress Matt,
Don’t forget to save me them rear quarter pieces.
Richard.
