[wheelspin]

Originally Posted by fyrffytr1

........ That is a beautiful car.

Thanks Phil, your detailed restoration thread provided the necessary inspiration for me to tackle my car.

Scott,
Thanks for the offer to help and I may need some help with some of the interior stuf and I will call you .

Les

[vidguy]

How fun to see you getting it all done... Good for you buddy!
Looks fantastic..

[Satyr1966]

Looks Great! Gotta love those Sports Coupes!

[Old Blue 66]

Originally Posted by Ken K

Survivor pics.

I can see why you went ahead with this Les, it looks like a real beater.

[Old Goat 67]

Good for you Les. Must make you proud, I like it.

Charles

[Too Many Projects]

You'll never regret keeping it the original color. I love that Turquoise. My 67 was Gulf Turquoise and I intend to return it to that when it gets paint. There are soooooo many red cars around at the shows that I don't even look at them. I would stare at and take a dozen pics of yours.......stunning.......

[6d7gto]

Originally Posted by Too Many Projects

You'll never regret keeping it the original color. I love that Turquoise. My 67 was Gulf Turquoise and I intend to return it to that when it gets paint. There are soooooo many red cars around at the shows that I don't even look at them. I would stare at and take a dozen pics of yours.......stunning.......

Me too.

[goatman65]

X3.

[wheelspin]

Originally Posted by Too Many Projects

You'll never regret keeping it the original color. I love that Turquoise.........

Thanks guys .

The latest speedbump is that the commonly available flocked window channels ("W" shape) are shaped a little different and they are thicker than the oem stuf , hanging up the window glass in the lined channels . I purchased my channel pieces from Legendary and after researching the fitment problem I ended up @ Restoration Specialities who list special part #s for the Sports Coupe/Sedan. I received them today and they are definitely different than the Legendary items.Tomorrow I will test them in the car when I go for my daily visit to the body shop.

So close, and yet so far away .

Les

[lust4speed]

So should we expect to see your car at the 2011 racing season and not the 2010?

[goatmanmitch]

Mick, light a fire under his butt would ya? It has been almost a month and a half and this resto project should have been done by now!

[wheelspin]

Made some progress during the holidays: re-fitted the hood following a respray due to color mismatch, installed the window glass channels & fuzzies, installed fabricated drains in the bottom corners of the rear windows (got the idea from earlier Ponchos), installed new grills ., adjusted rear bumper gaps, and cold bent the steering crosslink for additional clearance under the pan.

GOOD NEWS, flat bedding the Goat home tomorrow .

Les

[fyrffytr1]

Originally Posted by goatmanmitch

Mick, light a fire under his butt would ya? It has been almost a month and a half and this resto project should have been done by now!

I just started my third year! I hope to have mine done in about $10,000. You're making me look bad, wheelspin!

[wheelspin]

True to his word, my painter had the GTO polished & detailed today, and AAA provided the ride home . It sure looks sweeet, parked in the top secret Wheelspin "skunkworks" garage, awaiting completion .

The tint now has to go, it's going to obstruct the views of my new Legendary interior . I installed it back in the cross-country traveling days when we drove the GTO to Denver and Columbus OH for the GTOAA Nationals during the July heat.

Since I am now tapped, I plan to shine up the Americans until I can afford some Daisys .

Les

[rexus31]

Bitchen. The car looks great but who's that goofy old dude standing next to it?

[SD421]

Originally Posted by wheelspin

Made some progress during the holidays: re-fitted the hood following a respray due to color mismatch, installed the window glass channels & fuzzies, installed fabricated drains in the bottom corners of the rear windows (got the idea from earlier Ponchos), installed new grills ., adjusted rear bumper gaps, and cold bent the steering crosslink for additional clearance under the pan.

GOOD NEWS, flat bedding the Goat home tomorrow .

Les

Les,
Is it possible to see a pic or two of the drains in the back window?
Thanks,
Don

[wheelspin]

Hi Don,

Let me see if I can get you a decent pic tomorrow.

I used a couple of 3-4" long sections of 3/16" steel brake tubing, single flared one end of the tubing to create a funnel and then I epoxied them into the rr window lower channel about 1 1/2" inboard of the bottom corners on each side, and [I]hidden[I] under the window moulding. These locations appear to be the lowest spots in the channel that tend to collect standing water and create the rust pinholing in this panel.

Tomorrow I plan to drill a couple of holes in the rr wheeltubs and route some 3/16" tubing from my drain tubes and into the holes, securing the tubing w/ a little RTV.

Les

[SD421]

Hi Les,
That would be awesome!! Ya think a GM Engineer would have thought of the problem that back window would create but then again they didnt think we would restoring these cars in the year 2010!!
BTW your Goat is looking pretty sweet!
-Don

[Old Goat 67]

Les,

Please do make pics if you will. I am going to do this week exactly what you did. I am remaking drains as I have replaced the rear window panel and doglegs about 2 weeks ago.

Thanks in advance and boy does that car look sweet! Don't we all get "tapped out" by this stage.

Charles

[wheelspin]

Don & Charles,

Unfortunately, I couldn't get a pic from the top since the moulding is in the way and there's no way that I am going to revisit that installation hassle . I took a few shots from below that illustrate how I used about 12" of 5/16" brake line tubing slightly bent to reach the top area of the wheeltubs, and supported by a couple of hangers made from old coat hangers. I think that I wiill use a couple of old Schrader valves w/o the valve cores bolted into the wheeltubs as nipples, and then use some 5/16" vacuum hose to connect the drain tubes to the Schrader valves . None of the dimensions are critical since the goal is to simply drain the accumulated water from the low spots in the corners of the rear window gutter, so use whatever you have laying around the garage to fab up your drains.

Les