Rick's 1970 Camaro

Saturday, October 11, 2003, 10:01:12 AM
This is the first day I saw what was to become my new money pit.

08-19-04
It took me about 3 months to decide that I wanted a big tire car.
I found a local guy to back half it.

10-13-04
Here are a few more pictures taken during the back half process.
As you can see I went with steel rather than aluminum panels.
Problem is that steel rusts really fast.

10-24-04
This is the finished product on the back half. Now I need to lower the front-end of the car.

07-19-05
Since the front cap had so much rust on it, I decided to go with a VFN fiberglass front-end.

09-17-05
I wanted to drive the car in the Cruising the Coast in 2005,
but hurricane Katrina had a different plan.

All those previous pictures were pre Hurricane Katrina.
I had about 2-3 feet of salt water in my house and garage.

Yea that's the Camaro to the left, it got 2 feet of salt water in it.
Also my PT Cruiser in the background got flooded.

04-07-06
More pictures taken in the months after Katrina. The camaro took a back burner
as we started to gut our house and rebuild.

The only thing that kept my fence from falling was the steel front clip of the Camaro.
We cooked on that grill for a few months after the storm
That is our temporarily home in the background. It is our FEMA trailer.

Thank God and FEMA.

06-08-07
It is now August 2007 and we pretty much have the house back together.

I just dropped the Camaro off at a local body shop, SISON'S CORVETTES,
to see if the rust from being under salt water could be stopped.

Junior says that a product called Salt X will stop all the rust.

That's the Camaro on the roll back headed of to the body shop.
Also you can see the rusted metal clip with the fiberglass clip.

I'll update the page as Junior gets some of the body work started.

01-29-08
Still in the body shop durring the frame off restore.
The man in the bottom row is the J D Tripp.

02-26-08
These are pictures of the rack and pinion install with coil over shocks.

03-26-08
Finally the front suspension is in place .

03-28-08
Headers being built. Since the car is only going to be 5 inches off the ground at the
front crossmenber, there was not enough room for conventional headers. Junior has made
headers for some of his other projects and was willing to get the Camaro a try.
I purchased a Hooker kit for a SB-Chevy Doorslammer / Roadster with 2 inch primarys

This is the list of things that I want Junior to do.