Joe's (X66 714) 1969 SS 396 Camaro "The life & times of X66 714"

[X66 714]

Originally Posted by scuncio

That's awesome. I figured you would have had to remove the tail panel. Did you replace the entire shock tower area too?

The pan is one big chunk. It was removed from wheel well to wheel well, including trunk drops & from tail panel to back of rear seat. The shock area is part of that floor. The bear was to remove the donor pan drilling on the proper side without drilling completely through so we had only on side to weld. It's all back to real GM except for a couple of small pieces we had to cut from repop stuff....Joe

[scuncio]

I can appreciate the level of work required. I bought some original GM 'cutoffs' from another Camaro to fix some rust on my '68 L78 car. Disassembling all the welded joints has been time consuming to say the least! But it will have original GM sheetmetal nearly everywhere, so it's worth it to me.

Originally Posted by X66 714

The pan is one big chunk. It was removed from wheel well to wheel well, including trunk drops & from tail panel to back of rear seat. The shock area is part of that floor. The bear was to remove the donor pan drilling on the proper side without drilling completely through so we had only on side to weld. It's all back to real GM except for a couple of small pieces we had to cut from repop stuff....Joe

[X66 714]

They stripped the body with some sort of plastic beads which brought it back to the original metal....Joe

[X66 714]

Here's some pictures of the firewall. You can make out 259, C60 & BYEL. On the driver's side I believe it said Z87 but it didn't come out in pictures. Notice during the installation of the a/c box one of the screws went right through the hidden VIN....Joe