hello, i'm Joe and i will be bringing you along for a ride to project finish, i'm not a pro so i could use some pointers.

 

hello, This is my 1980 Z28 Resto thread, i would first like to clerify that the car is my first project and it is not going to be a showroom car, just a daily driver.

Let me tell you a bit about her, 350 sbc runs but needs rebuild, th400 fireball tranny, limited slip rear, sub frame connectors and rear air shocks.
She was my cousins car he had restored in 1995. He had the car of my dreams (now i do lol). he baught the car from a police auction, the car's prior owner had gotten shot with a shotgun inside the car. My cousin had baught a T/A to partialy swap the interior, and it was brutal, it originally had white interior lol (imagine the mess, i'll have to get a scanner to put some of the pics up).
He ended up taking the motor out to put in his stock car, and selling me the car for $1300. he sold the stock car to someone and away went the original block for my car
3 years later (had the car for like 10 yrs) i baught a motor off of some guy for $250 to put in my car. He said it was a 350 sbc and i beleived him and purchased before checking the #'s and finding out it was a 305. along with disappointement i had no place to put it so i just dropped the ugly 305 all stock into my car and i was discuraged and it just sat there (i also didnt have a garage) for years. A couple years ago i ran into this man and by fluke it was the guy who baught the stockcar from my cousin and i made a deal with him and got the motor off of him for an 84 camaro 2.8 all rusted out
So i had the garage now and the ambition so im back at it, slowly but surely.

Anyway enough gab here she is (where she sat for years)








This is when i got it into a garage, i put the rims i picked up on (just to see lol)






This is the colour im going with but maybe with 3 diff shades of lime green stripes.



I will post more pics once i make them smaller.

 

Welcome Joe! Looks like it might be a good solid car. Was "Marie" the previous owner, or is that "Marc"?
Kep the posts coming as you go forward!

 

Thanks, it still is pretty solid for sitting outside throughout the 4 seasons.
But yeah lol it was my cousin Marc's car, i laughed when he put his ex GF's name on the pass door lol (good thing her name was a sticker not paint like marc's).

 

heres some more pics, the tear down process.









look the flintstone car lol








heres a pic of the motor i dropped in just to take out to put back in again lol



got it back out



washed and painted it



put an Edelbrock Performer intake, Mickey Thompson valve covers etc. nothin special.



i'll post more in a bit.

 

Uhh, guess it's not all that solid. If it's rusted through on the floors, then better check it all over closely!

 

yeah i checked it right out, frames are solid, the dash corners look rotten, door pins are going, i need to replace seat rails and sill covers/plates (if thats what thier called?) back floors are good and solid, needs two front pans, and its rusting a bit on the firewall. Other than that its in good shape panel-wise, mint fenders/quads/rockers/doors etc.

lot of work but i like it, i cant wit to get started on my 78 Z28 350 4 speed 373 posi. That one will get complete frame off restoration (it needs it lol).

 

Heres some pics of the sanding



















all i have left to sand is a fender and under the hood oh yeah and the rest of the back bumper, next i will be doing the floors.
i'll get some more pics up of the little things i've been doing soon.

 

Are you planning on leaving the sunroof, or filling that in?

 

people in the 80's must have been on a acid trip lol "lets cut a hole in the roof of the car" lol

yeah im keeping it on this one, i had a set of t-tops but i said f#$k it and gave them to my cousin for his 79. I have a 78 Z28 with a sun roof too, but i'm gonna fill it in when i restore that one.

heres a couple pics of her, she has 80 Z28 doors and fenders but everything else (besides the sunroof lol) is original.