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1970 L-78 Nova Restoration; Saga of The Green Bastard
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Rotisserie Time !!
Was lucky to be able to borrow this awesome rotisserie from a friend. It had however only been used for A bodies... needed to make adapters for the X body. Nothing takes five minutes !! Attachment 214332 Attachment 214333 Attachment 214334 Attachment 214335 Attachment 214336 Attachment 214337 Attachment 214338 Attachment 214339 Attachment 214340 Attachment 214341 |
1970 L-78 Nova Restoration; Saga of The Green Bastard
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1970 L-78 Nova Restoration; Saga of The Green Bastard
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Subframe out... After HOURS of scraping grease and a mid-winter quickie car wash.
Attachment 214532 Forward body mounts are a little roughed up. (patch outline traced in) Attachment 214533 A friend with a small CNC plasma machine cut some "patch" washers. Attachment 214534 Cut out the rusted areas and fit the washers. Attachment 214540 Attachment 214535 Attachment 214536 Attachment 214537 Patches were Tigged in, finished both sides. RH Attachment 214538 LH Attachment 214539 |
1970 L-78 Nova Restoration; Saga of The Green Bastard
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It would appear something was hacked into the bumper mounts (both sides) with a nut welded to the frame. Perhaps some sort of home built tow bar ?
Attachment 214541 Attachment 214542 The lower slot was hacked open to clear behind the welded nut. Another Green Bastard repair issue. Attachment 214543 Clean up the damage. Attachment 214544 Fab up a patch coupon. Attachment 214545 Attachment 214546 Back with copper and weld in. I was using the Tig again just because I wanted the practice. Attachment 214547 Finished up Attachment 214549 |
I smiled at the comment, "because I wanted the practice".
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If I am remembering right, We met up at Pavilions before MCACN in 2019, correct? You are friends with Bill Waters, too? |
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Dereck was along to MCACN with my convertible in 2018 and Ken's convertible in 2019. He loves driving !! He owns the 67 Nova SS from the barn finds pics in my earlier posts. |
1970 L-78 Nova Restoration; Saga of The Green Bastard
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On to the Right hand side. Hard to see in the picture but this side had a quasi rectangular piece with the round hole welded over the frame.
Attachment 214586 After cutting the rectangular piece loose you can see the same hogged out hole underneath (a little larger on this side) Attachment 214587 Clean up the damage Attachment 214588 fab up a patch, back with copper and weld Attachment 214589 Attachment 214590 I didn't get a picture of just the patch weld. in this picture the patch was already welded and ground and I had now welded to fill the area gouged out from removing the old piece, and filling a couple spots on the patch weld. Attachment 214591 Attachment 214592 Attachment 214593 |
1970 L-78 Nova Restoration; Saga of The Green Bastard
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The underside of the crossmember has met the fate of the floor jack like so many before it.
Attachment 214604 No Easy fix except cutting it loose to hammer flat. Attachment 214605 Attachment 214607 Attachment 214608 Attachment 214606 Attachment 214609 Ground and cleaned up. Chalk marks are for positioning the spot weld dimples. The dimples on this piece were a small diameter very defined shallow hole easily duplicated with a drill Attachment 214610 |
1970 L-78 Nova Restoration; Saga of The Green Bastard
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RH trunk drop. Recall I had patched the bottoms prior to installing the quarter. Shown here prior to finish welding. This side was all welded solid prior to installing the quarter,
Attachment 214672 From the underside. Attachment 214673 You can see where the patch overlaps the ribs in the panel. This needs to be cut out and ground to open up the ribs. Attachment 214674 Attachment 214675 Attachment 214676 |
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