LilEz02 Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 man its coming along matt. i agree that color will look bad ass with the trim and the right wheels. do you know what that color came on factory from gm, and whats your reasoning for going with it? (great choice) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lefty Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 Definitely an awesome color choice. Excellent work, Matt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueAKSSS Posted January 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 man its coming along matt. i agree that color will look bad ass with the trim and the right wheels. do you know what that color came on factory from gm, and whats your reasoning for going with it? (great choice) Thanks its been a lot of work to get to this point! The color was offered from 2003-2007 and it came on a number of different models I know for sure that it was available on 2003 regular silverados my dad had one in this color and it looked awesome. My reasoning for going with the color is well just that I thought it would look awesome on the lines of the 57 and to let the tail fins, chrome trim, and trim inserts do there work and let the color be kinda understated. It really makes the car look meaner too haha. The wheels I had on it should match the paint too I think, since there grey with polished lips. I would like to go to a 17" wheel on it though. Definitely an awesome color choice. Excellent work, Matt! Thanks Lefty! I think so too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lefty Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 My reasoning for going with the color is well just that I thought it would look awesome on the lines of the 57 and to let the tail fins, chrome trim, and trim inserts do there work and let the color be kinda understated. It really makes the car look meaner too haha. I think you are going to be spot on. Once you get the chrome back on that bad boy, that color is just going to explode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted January 21, 2012 Report Share Posted January 21, 2012 Matt You Son of a ...... Wow, looking great. You picked a great color. Ill pop over to TRIFIVE and check it out. Btw: Whose quarter panel sheetmetal did you buy? which brand? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueAKSSS Posted January 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2012 Matt You Son of a ...... Wow, looking great. You picked a great color. Ill pop over to TRIFIVE and check it out. Btw: Whose quarter panel sheetmetal did you buy? which brand? Hahahaha! Thanks! Yeah trifive site has many more updates than this thread does! I still can't believe I got the entire body painted. Now I'm working on rebuilding up the chassis hoping to sand blast it and add some structure to the stock frame...... The quarter panel sheet metal is from a place called restoration world at the time I went with them because they seemed like the cheapest. Not sure on the brand of the metal either but it was well stamped and used to have stickers which said the brand but I sanded them right off lol. The other thing is I used a hardtop quarter panel and turned it into a sedan style so that required some messing with. It would have been much better to get a full sedan quarter panel if available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueAKSSS Posted January 31, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 Got the stripped down frame clean up a bit more and then started applying POR 15 and it came out great! The plan is to use one of POR's products thats a topcoat for the POR called Chassiscoat I think. POR by itself is not UV resistent and after some years of exposure it could fade out to flat. The topcoat will prevent that. Have to wait till monday to go to the paint store to buy the topcoat and apply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LilEz02 Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 looks good. idk if i told ya but im big fan of POR15. we have a '69 cornet and got the whole floor done. very nice stuff. keep these pics coming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MARTYW Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 Sweet. Gonna look great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thing1 Posted February 17, 2012 Report Share Posted February 17, 2012 Looking good, can't wait to see it finished! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueAKSSS Posted February 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2012 (edited) Thanks for bumping the thread back up I forgot to keep it updated with my build thread on Trifive.com Here's the latest from last weekend: Well tonight me and some friends decided it was time to put the body onto its new frame and I did just about everything I could to the frame before needing to put the body on. So I did some final things to the frame and then we moved it down my driveway from the main upper garage down to the paint booth where the body has been stored on the rotisserie since I painted it. It was kind of a trick as the driveway melted from a random warm up we had then froze again into a sheet of ice! Had to be very carefully to not let the frame and engine get away. Anyways it made it down to the paint booth. Then we proceeded to lift the body off the rotisserie to the ceiling with cargo straps. Worked out quite well but it was pretty sketchy. Anyways here's some pictures of the process. This picture reminds me of how the body must have been put on at the factory on October 9th 1956 in Kansas City, MO. I'm sure it wasn't with screwy cargo straps but still pretty cool to think about. Edited February 17, 2012 by Matt* (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueAKSSS Posted February 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2012 Here's some more of it after we got it all lowered on! It was really tricky... The car looks and feels soo much different now that it back on the frame. Sits pretty low now with the stock replacement rear shackles. ^Here you can see the engine to firewall clearance is very tight but it clears.... Just barely... More progress, I aligned the body up with all its mounts on the new frame and bolted it on with the new plated grade 8 bolts! Then proceeded to roll it out into the light for the first time for its icy trip to the garage. Had to tow it up the hill with my truck but we made it! I'm super excited to see it in this stage!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSenvy Posted February 17, 2012 Report Share Posted February 17, 2012 Matt, really well done! I can only imagine how many hours you have into at this point, but in the end, im sure it will be worth every bit of it. Cant wait to see it finished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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