NukeBass
Well-Known Member
Hello everyone. I am posting pictures of my restoration. Due to my lack of skills and space (mainly skills), I am not doing this work myself and have outsourced it to All Classics Restorations. The shop isn't far from me and the owner is doing his best to help me stay in budget (within reason).
My father bought this car back in 73 with 6000 miles on it. It is a B3 Twister car with a 225/904 auto and originally white interior. It served as the family car for many years before being replaced. It sat around a while and Dad did a little bit of work to it, had the seats recovered in black, the car repainted by my uncle (his 2nd paint job. He also put gloss black on the hood instead of flat) and it wound up being the car I drove until I got out of college. My initial plans were always to restore this one back to original condition and eventually getting another car to have a larger motor.
As time went on, I realized that this would probably be the only muscle car I would ever own, so, after discussions with my father, I have decided to get the car restored, but with a new drive train. I am getting a 340 put in and a new Keisler TKO 500 5 speed transmission (increasing the budget a little bit).
At this point, the body has been primered and sanded and hopefully color will go on it soon. The shop owner's only real concern is painting the hood since he said you get one chance to paint the flat black. He's thinking of seing if it can be done as a stripe, so we'll see how that turns out.
The top picture is how the car started out last year and the last three pictures are what it looks like now.
I'll post updates as they come along. I'm not sure how fast they'll be since the shop is a small shop and currently has four cars being worked, but as long as the work is good, I can wait.
My father bought this car back in 73 with 6000 miles on it. It is a B3 Twister car with a 225/904 auto and originally white interior. It served as the family car for many years before being replaced. It sat around a while and Dad did a little bit of work to it, had the seats recovered in black, the car repainted by my uncle (his 2nd paint job. He also put gloss black on the hood instead of flat) and it wound up being the car I drove until I got out of college. My initial plans were always to restore this one back to original condition and eventually getting another car to have a larger motor.
As time went on, I realized that this would probably be the only muscle car I would ever own, so, after discussions with my father, I have decided to get the car restored, but with a new drive train. I am getting a 340 put in and a new Keisler TKO 500 5 speed transmission (increasing the budget a little bit).
At this point, the body has been primered and sanded and hopefully color will go on it soon. The shop owner's only real concern is painting the hood since he said you get one chance to paint the flat black. He's thinking of seing if it can be done as a stripe, so we'll see how that turns out.
The top picture is how the car started out last year and the last three pictures are what it looks like now.
I'll post updates as they come along. I'm not sure how fast they'll be since the shop is a small shop and currently has four cars being worked, but as long as the work is good, I can wait.
