Ex's 70 Jav build

My plan was simply to drive and enjoy this car for a little bit before I jumped to heavily into the project.  The first concern was the carb.  I rebuilt the carb which made the car much more enjoyable to drive as it now wouldn't die on idle and would start as it should.  I also did a pertronix I conversion on it, which significantly smoothed the acceleration and improved the ride. I replaced the front drums with the scarebird conversion kit although I used a 71-74 manual disc master cylinder and it worked great.  The car still burned oil but my goal is to eventually swap out the 304 and M44 transmission and replace it with a rebuilt 360 and T10 that I had acquired.

With the car mostly reliable I then focused on the curb appeal for the car.  It would be banged up no matter how I went about it, but I eventually intended to have the car stripped and bodywork done right.  Until that time I was looking to the biggest improvements, which were accomplished with a set of redone slots wheels and to rebuild the front damaged areas.  I managed to find a freshly chromed front bumper and a set of brackets to replace the bent and mangled ones I had.  I also had acquired my 70 BBB Javelin parts car which is rusted beyond restorability but had a good repairable grill.  The grill repairs were done with Plastex as others had discussed.  I had various cracks to repair as well as rebuilt all of the tabs with that stuff.  It worked great.  This is how it turned out:







Edited by Extract2th - Dec/11/2011 at 12:25am

I enjoyed the car to the end of this driving season.  I have lined up a local bodyshop to do the bodywork as I do not have the interest or facility yet to be able to do that type of work.  It likely will take quite a bit to straighten this car out with rust issues in the rockers present as well as all the dents in the side of it as well as the heavily dented trunk and rear end.  I have found a replacement passenger door since the one that came with it was heavily dented and filled.  I have also located replacement front fenders with primarily surface rust to replace the rusted out ones on this car in these pics.  I also have the ram air hood and most of the ram air guts to eventually make this car a donahue style clone.

So I have started stripping the car:







Here is the heaviest damaged area:






Edited by Extract2th - Dec/11/2011 at 12:43am

Nice project! It sure got tagged pretty hard in the rear but looks repairable. Is that right door the one from Madison?

If the rest of the blue parts are like the other door plan on having some media blasting done. Or buy a couple cases of beer and have a sanding party!

And the color will be?????