Here it is, I finally manage to start and here are the first pictures. The Good: other than Quarters, door skins and tail panel all other metal is in pristine condition. I am still amazed with the shape of the car. Much more than I expected for sure.
The bad: I want to ride it this weekend... do you think it'll be done?

On some of the pics you can see the original Nantucket Blue color that the car will be receiving some day soon. ISN'T SHE GORGEOUS?

 

This thread is soooo dead...

 

Wow man great pics. You might want to edit your post and put the pics under one another. You've got them side by side making the screen go haywire. Other than that you're off to a fantastic start.

 

OROCKER, thanx for letting me know, for some reason it looked fine on my screen, but I fixed it, so hopefully you will be able to see it correctly now.

BTW, thank you for the imput and advice on buying the car, back when I posted the thread on wether to buy it or not. We are very happy with it and now that we begun the resto and finally got to see the real shape of the car we are just thrilled with it.
Not knowing too much about camaros back then and their going prices I was very close to letting the deal go; although I have to say my wife clinged on to that car as if she was fighting for her life and practically beged for me to buy it. (It may be hard to believe but is true)
So many thanks!

 

Man, you're wasting no time on that. Gonna be done by the end of the summer? (not saying what year)

 

Yea the pics are better. Thanks for fixing it.

 

Great project bro! Looks like you'll have your hands full for a while. Good luck with it. Can't wait to see the finished product!

 

Here are more pictures, we started doing some major cutting, it looks like we will get away with patching parts like the fender wells as opposed to replacing them whole, with that we want to keep the original integrity of the shell and the factory metal and welds as much as we can.
What do you think? Patching ok?

 

Do you have full quarters? I would guess since the Danacorn body they are available now. Looks like you where a little hard on the non-rusty tail pan. Thats going to cost you. Patching in those areas is fine. The car looks pretty sold. The Rockers are critical part on the verts.

What are you using for your frame of referance? With the door off and the tail pan damaged and no roof postioning the quarter is going to be guess work. Unless you made a big templet before you cut. You can not just put together these aftermarket parts and have the car come out right. It will be off.

 

Thank you, we a re using 1/4" luan for templates and have only taken one quarter yet. The plan is to template the other side and then brace before removing driver side quarter and tail piece. Tail piece is an illusion, believe it or not it is more like 45% bondo, 30% rust and the rest is holes and metal (lol)
so it is being replaced. As much as I didn't want to, I think we are going to expose the inner panels and then take her for a blast to see what we we end up with. We plan to keep her for the rest of our natural life so we figure it is the right thing to do.
Oh, and yes we have full quarters.