Thanks for positive comments! it is nice to be able to see it in one colour. @Firebird, do you have an pics of yours? Likewise, it will be some inspiration to see the progress of yours
I've had the project fatigue a few times too, i find that sometimes stepping away for a bit actually helps, it brings things back into perspective and can help with bringing new energy into it. Gets rid of the repetitive nature of it. Otherwise i find that i've made mistakes because something would be taking too long and i just wanted it done, so short cut it, rather than doing the right thing. Then of course, you have to redo it, which is usually more difficult lol.
@twsitedsanity... luckily, the lump and tranny are all in - 350 block and th350 with B&M shifter. There is a manual 4speed super t10 going in (hey Nige
), but that will be after the car is driving and on the road. For the colour, it's going to be red, already got the paint and it's just waiting for me to get my act together. As for what it is when it's done? Erm, good question lol. I don't really know. Probably a custom / cruiser? The backstory is that since i was very young, i've always loved American cars and always wanted one. For a long time i was into the 50's classics, things with tailfins, bench seats, lots of chrome and required an oversized parking bay. Playing racing games i always used to pic the america cars, like Chevelles etc. Even though they would bounce about and i couldn't win, i just liked the experience of 'driving' them. So when i got the Camaro, i was just happy to have a V8. I was ok with it as is, just the interior sucked, especially with those blue house carpets. The previous owner was a smoker so everything had a smell to it. That's why the interior got pulled out and that was supposed to be it.. just get a nice black leather interior put together and enjoy. I've always liked customising / modifying things and doing 'trick' things so the plan was to just do a few things here and there. But when the interior came out, i found the rust and it just all went down hill as the domino effect kicked in. I think i had a false sense of power lol... you know, i took apart the interior and was gonna make it all new etc, so thought why stop there, i can do this to the whole car and make everything look new. Big mistake haha.
As the project has taken so long, i've picked up many different influences along the way, which is why it's hard to define what it is. I've watched shows like overhaulin, youtube restorations, forum restorations etc so i've seen and liked everything from going back to factory to the seriously modified ones, to the trans am racers, to those that pay homage to old racers but with modern technology, to those that are standard with a couple of small touches to improve performance / looks etc. So i've kinda taken bits of each i guess. Probably not a good thing lol.
One of the things i also wanted to do was learn to work on cars, which is likely why i got involved on many parts that weren't expected i.e suspension. It's surprising how many people are afraid to or don't know how to change an air filter or especially the oil in their cars, so would rather pay £100's for a service... no thanks lol, i want to be able to have the basic mechanical know how to do those types of things and not be scared to fix things and just 'buy a new one' when something goes wrong. Tangent... it's funny how there's all this focus on saving the environment etc but things are being made to be thrown out and replaced with a new one, rather than educating people on how to fix things, meaning we don't have huge landfills of useable stuff and extracting more resources to create whole new things, rather than just changing out a small broken part. Tangent over
So ye, i don't really know how to classify it. I want to say custom, but at the same time it doesn't have things like shaved door handles and the paint won't turn out like glass. It does have some changes to it that i haven't shown yet, i will reveal once it's painted and put together
It's not a racer as i didn't want to modify the suspension to the level it would need to be to be competitive, though, i would like to have a race version. Maybe something like a pro touring one, but still want it to be driveable without overly stiff suspension and high fuel consumption. I still want to be able to get in it and just go for a drive. I like the kind of style that Chip Foose does (i'm by no means comparing my work to his lol, that would be a plain insult to him!). I like how he works with a car to compliment it based o the original design, tidying up certain parts i.e flushed bumpers, giving them a more clean modern style - when you see a Foose car, it doesn't look old, just classy. He usually has a good way of making something look as though it was made to be that way back in the day , but it also could be a modern car... best example i can think of is the Eleanor '67 GT500 - classic but modern. So in a way, the Camaro is my interpretation or version of the Camaro, the way that i see it. I don't have a committee and stakeholders to answer to, so i can make it kind of how i like, taking inspiration from here and there and not necessarily being constrained to certain things (my lack of skills being the main constraint) . One small example i can give is that the light switch was a bit dodgy so i got a new one but chose to go for a '69 knob. In my opinion it looked better as it looks a bit classier as it has the the little chrome ring. It fits in with the gauges (made a custom gauge cluster and have black and chrome gauges). A perfectionist would comment on how it's not year correct but it's a small detail and when you compare the 2, the 69 knob just seems to fit in better, cleaning up the look of the dash. So ye, it's those kind of things that make it, i guess... mine?
_________________
How to post pics: When writing a message, scroll down and use the "attach file" option. Where possible, a photo sharing service can be used such as Flickr, Imgur etc. The image location (usually ending in .jpg) can be copy and pasted between the ][ brackets that appear when you click the 'Img' button (you can find this button at the top of the message box).
How to post youtube vids: Click on the 'youtubeHD' button at the top of the message box and in the middle of the ][ brackets that just appeared, copy and paste everything from the youtube web address that appears after the = sign i.e if this is the url:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2cNqaPSHv0 just copy "K2cNqaPSHv0").
Register
Login
FAQ
Search
) Then i've got friends visiting from the states for a couple of weeks, so the soonest i can get back to is around the 16th October. I'll need to the sand the second batch of primer in 600 (thanks for the tip on not going with 800 Nige, anything that helps save time at this point is much appreciated). Not sure whether or not to go with 2 or 3 coats of primer for this reprime. Once it's all in 600 then i can finally paint it. I'm starting to get worried / anxious now about the weather in regards to temp and humidity. I really wanted to be paining when it was about 20c, but it looks like it will now be at the end of October 
Was too tired to do any work on the car on Monday night. Last night i managed to finish sanding the drivers fender (inside and out 
). Didn't manage to get the spoilers and mirrors done. Few pinholes to fill on the fender and found a couple on the bumper that i missed. Need to try and take care of those tonight, so that i can repaint everything with primer tonight.