1969 Nova

What a beauty! I bought this from a friend who had parted 95% of it out on E-Bay.

The upside is that I will not have much to disassamble.

No power brakes or steering.

Solid in the rear seat area.

Overall not to rusty, it will need floors, quarter skins, dash, outer wheel houses and trunk drop offs. Pretty common items and not hard to replace.

I fired up the old sand blaster unit and 4 hours later this is what I ended up with. Normally I would have put it in our rotisserie but it is currently in use.

The doors and rockers are in really good shape. The inner and outer fenders are good as is the trunk and hood.

Next I will cut away the quarter skins and POR everything I can reach.

Floor are bad but should only need 2 halfs which I already have.

The dash will be replaced, they all seem to rot like this.

The trunk was a bright spot in this project, strong and useable.

Core support is also in good shape and will be reinstalled.

The gas tank however will be replaced, for a 100.00 dollars I can get a new one, this one cannot be saved.

I sprayed the trunk and inside the doors with POR, later I will top coat the trunk with the proper splatter paint.

The core support is good to go.

I also covered the underside of many of the parts so rust can never reform.

I set about the first floor patch to be installed, pretty much straight forward cut and weld with just a small fab job to patch the toe kick.

A pretty easy piece to form, it matches up perfectly. I did rust treat all of the underlying area.

I then cut the new floor to match and welded it into place. Quick grind down of the weld and there it is, done.

Drivers floor repair, nothing to difficult here.

Same for the drivers side rear floor.

I layed the new dash over the old one to mark out a line to cut.

Here the dash is cut away and is beginning to show what work is ahead of me.

I have stared to remove the forward edge of the dash which reveled what most 30+ year old Chevy dashes look like. All in all, not unexpected.