Matt's 1970 'Trans-Am' Cuda

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Re: Matt's 1970 'Trans-Am' Cuda

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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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Have you retired now Matt???
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Re: Matt's 1970 'Trans-Am' Cuda

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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.
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fantastic progess :salute:
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Well done Matt......Wish i had the skill to do this kind of stuff!!! 8-)
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Wow good stuff, going be a busy week to meet the blaster deadline :salute:
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I'm liking this a lot. =D>
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:read2: =D> :read2: =D> :read2: =D> :read2:

Keep the updates coming !

Amazing work


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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.
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super quick work !
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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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:study:

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Awesome job Matt, you work fast...and good... =D> =D> :oops: :oops:
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Wow, super quick progress Matt,
Don’t forget to save me them rear quarter pieces.

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