65 hardtop gs restoration

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More shots of right floor! Toe boards are goodmark brand and were a good fit except the corner which goes into the tunnel!

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Left was next! This required a bigger floor patch and toe board piece! Look at the size of the hole I cut in the floor! My buddy Randy came up with away for the corner by the tunnel to fit better!, took and heated up with the torch and some hammer and dolly work!

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With the left floor we had to reuse the wire harness ribbon hold down and the accelerator pedal mount reinforcement as they didn’t come with the toe board!

[elagache]

Thanks Jon for sharing the photos!

Definitely the restoration work is well underway!

Edouard

[Loren At 65GS]

 I think Jon may officially have the longest running restoration.

  Loren

[cwmcobra]

Yeah, I thought mine was lengthy....but everything is relative!

Chuck

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Life long , I mean to long of project! So the next thing we tackled was the front and back of the rocker pinch weld. When I had the original replacement floor put in the guy who did it used a plasma cutter to horseshoe cut the spot welds away, when the floor was welded back in the holes were not completely welded up. So Randy weld all of these shut and I dressed them down from a nicer look!

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Next job was to repair the bottom of the cowl cage nuts that are used to bolt on the bottom of the fender. Prior restoration work had the nuts welded in solid! They need to move to help align fender! So replacement pieces that I save from a parts car were prepared and welded in! I even got to work on my welded skills by burning one in!

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More pictures of cage nut removal and repair!

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Next was the big one the right rear quarter bottom rust repair! Used a OEM piece from a 64 4 door that was found out in Nebraska! So first. Fired up the plasma cutter and cut the quarter down and removed the rusted  area on the car! Also drilled out many spot welds and removed a small dent!

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Next was fitting and cutting! Randy used the Fitzie technique where you overlap 1 inch then use the lip of the panel you are putting in as a cutting guide and butt weld little at a time! A tape line and sharpie marks were used too!

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Butt welding and grinding down front and back make the repair almost disappear

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Next was a small rust spot in the middle above the lip! I had kept a small hunk from the repair quarter! First marked and cut square with a dremel tool then cut a piece down just right  welded it in! Now you see it now you don’t

[GS66]

Good progress, you might be driving that this year! There is a very unique joy driving these cars. Most people will never experience it.

[schlepcar]

 Just getting all the rust gone is most of the battle?.that car will be all downhill from here. The quarters came out NICE Jon. Before you do finish work test fit some wheel well trim and make sure they are good to go.