July, 2020
Just dropped off by the owner. She is a 1975 Pontiac
Grandville convertible.
I've never seen or even heard of these before, definitely a
larger luxurious car. Extremely loaded, power windows and
locks, AC, power seats etc.
Overalll it appears to be in really good shape. We'll be doing
some minor bodywork, paint and adding a passenger outside rear
view mirror.
As always it looks so nice, but it's got to be taken apart to get rid of
the ugly.
A real 70's color and name!
Color code 51, Sunstorm Yellow baby!
Originally a white top, customer has changed it to a black top.
There is some damage to the passenger fender and fiberglass
headlight assembly. The owner has many replacement
parts from a donor car. The front end comes apart
pretty quickly.
Moving to the rear I strip it down to the bare bones.
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Starting a pile of parts! They'll go back on once
everything is pretty and looking new. |
The seats and carpet have already been removed by the owner.
I need to remove the door panels to gain access to the interior
of the doors and quarter panels.
Not a good find, both doors have huge mouse nests in the rear
lower corners. Very strong odor of urine and it's seeped
down into the seam between the door skin and the door frame.
Once the nest is cleaned out I'll need to neutralize this before
painting.
We removed all the trim and outside mirror. Everything is
carefully tagged and safely stored in large bins.
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We are painting the door jambs and openings also, so
everything needs to be removed from both sides. |
The door latch strikers were left on for now, the will be
removed when it's time to prepare for paint.
One of the few modifications the owner wants is a passenger
outside rear view mirror. After carefully measuring the
drivers side from several angles I determined where to drill the
mounting holes for the donor mirror.
This ugly rust showed up under the wide lower trim on the
drivers side. I assumed we'd find some on the car.
I marked out the area of rust and gave a wide margin to get into
good solid metal.
Behind is some rusty, messy stuff!
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I'm going to have to deal with this as well.
The car has beautiful fender skirts on the rear wheels.
This is the forward alignment bracket for the drivers
side.
It will need to be cut out, getting it back in the
correct spot is critical. |
We'll address this and move forward next.
