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> BUILD-OFF CHALLENGE: BACK IN BLACK! from black plague to "Black Beauty", UPDATED PICUTURES 08-01-2016** switching the tub, sold blackie, so now to the Copper Tub should be remaned i guess, any ideas? Cu later?
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post Oct 3 2015, 04:43 PM
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Introduction to the car my 11 year old named black beauty . Hopefully it can be returned to her former glory.

Back story:
Not much is kknown about this car.
I bought the car from Billh1963 on Sept. 29, 2015. He bought the car earlier in the year , found on Craigs list in Columbia, SC. We all know Bill can't pass up a deal!. Car sat for 10 years after the p.o. had pulled it off the road to fix and restore it. He got as far as stripping it down, pulled out much of the wiring harness. Replaced the right front quarter panel and then it was abandoned. Luckily it was preserved by being stored in a clean dry place.
Goals: return to road as a nice close to original daily driver.
1. Remove rust in hell hole and passenger cross member, and sail panel area on left side.
2. Prepare for back dating bumpers
3. Clean and prep for repainting.
3.5. Assess motor status and prepare for refresh.
Either a. Refresh 1.8 , b.rebuild using current motor with turbo, or c. Replace with 2.0 from donor car.
4. Paint
5. Reassemble and complete restore of interior.
Interior was originally white, now dyed black and in bad shape. Not salvageable.

Here are a few pictures of the current condition of the car.

I am a late entry and thank the powers that be for allowing me to join the contest.
I do not have the welding or body work talent that some have but I will do most if not all mechanical and interior restore work.


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post Jul 25 2016, 07:05 AM
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Well, I am happy to report that CFR is hot on the rust repair and should be posting some pictures this week.
So basically the car was taken to Connecticut end of May, and they jumped in and assessed the motor health, ran some compression numbers and leak down to see where the 146k mile car was at -
Motor: good news! compression numbers were over 145 for all cylinders, so at this time no rebuild will be done. Probably some tuning, new oil cooler , maybe a few other surprises - depends on cost of the rust repair.
- Rust - list of issues being addressed by Chris and the gang:
Good- no repair necessary in hell holes!!!!!! - solid there,
Bad:
1. rear longs on both sides
2. rear 1/4 floor pan
3. drivers side a bit more so a inner wheel house piece was ordered from Restoration design!!! - only part of it was needed - last week Chris assured me that the repair process and replacement was top of their list this week.
4. rear fender fix- stretching and pulling out with repair of the outer lips - so that the 16x7" fuchs will fit and not rub yet the fenders will look stock- this is goin on this week too.
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other minor issue- trunk hing mount reattachment -

plan is to get the car home by the end of august strip id down for paint, local shop with experience working with 70's Glasurit Metallic paints will be doing the work,
hopefull to have it back together and ready for Okteenerfest - still hoping!!!

so please stay tuned - I wish I had some cool pictures so I could get more votes, Chris said he would post some on their site and facebook -

end of july update - I wll be ordering new outer rocker covers from RD this week -

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post Jul 25 2016, 07:23 PM
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Hang in there Dr., I would have never thought the Copper car had that much rust.
White car now lives in London, new owner digs the 914's.
Good to here the engine is sound in the Copper Car.

Talk to you!

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Good news to report! Here are some photos that Chris just sent- try had a lot of work to do in the rear fenders- the lips were bent badly and creases on the fender from a poor attempt to roll them- then they rubbed and caused paint blistering- the 7" Fuchs didn't fit, but they are staying in the car- so Chris's guys were able to carefully pull them out about 3/4", and replace the whole lip from a donor and in the end you can see the view from behind the profile looks perfect and I think once primed and repainted you will not be able to even see there was work done! - way better in my opinion than putting whole flares on the car- I wanted the stock look and lip, just enough room for the wheels and tires.
Awesome work Chris!
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Left side is being done today .-!already done are the Jack points and longs- I will post more pictures of that work when I get it from Chris- there maybe some on his Facebook page-

The last leg of repair is the drivers floor with new cross member and repair to pedal area- I didn't know existed but Chris did so his guys are taking care of it.

Progress!!!!


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Dr. Phil,

Looks like you are in good hands.......nice rear stock/flare look!

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update as of today:

Chris is almost finished with the repairs on the car. should be wrapped up by the end of this week so I am flying up next Thursday night next week and going over Friday to put stuff back in the car and probably will head out Friday night to drive it home - He put a new aux oil cooler on it for me this week, and they are finishing the last of the rust repair, a spot on the threshold area they found- that should be it! - new half floor pan, pedal area, rear longs, jack points etc etc, drivers side cross member support and seat hinges replaced - rear fenders were pulled out and hammered straight with new lips giving room for the 7" fuchs with 205/55 wheels and rims! - stock look, cant wait to get it home and have the paint done!!! this will be started on August 25th -
anyway I hope to have it ready for Okteenerfest!!

More pictures to follow -should get more from Chis of the project at different stages when I get there.
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post Aug 10 2016, 02:52 PM
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Right quarter panel tire clearance:

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Nice work Chris!!!!

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post Aug 22 2016, 07:43 AM
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time for some rust updates - I have some pictures taken by Chris so we can see the extent of what was removed and what was replaced.

- condition of the longs- drivers was worse but the rear inner wheel house on passenger side was worse - floor under driver side - pedal area under cluster, etc.


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right side rear long and wheel house


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Big change from before


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Drivers side Jack triangle had rusted off completely , tube was gone as you see from the previous picture


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New floor pan pieces!


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So nice to see clean, new metal!
Keep it going, we'll be watchin'...
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Inside picture of new door area- also new cross member- new seat bracket and hinge. This area was rusted thru under the seat and the cross member cut and lowered to fit 993 seats at one time, now along with the longs and Jack points all repaired by CFR-
Thought I would rewire the heated seats as I am cleaning up and putting rugs back in place - the wiring you see on floor is for the heat pads that were put in when I did the 914rubber seat kits I will later on put some sound pad under there but I don't have time now and it reall does not make that much difference-


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