PROJECTS   PAGE

   Tim's  (The Boss)  Chevelle 

From grannies ole grocery getter to Tim's DREAM CAR

 Tim acquired this 1970 Chevelle  Malibu about a year ago and surprisingly  to everyone here at Obsolete Chevrolet he has made  great progress.

The project started out as a 1970 Chevelle Malibu with an old six banger and no extras what so ever , no radio ,no a/c I'm not even sure it had a heater.

Tim's dream is to turn it into a high performance weekend cruiser

If all goes well hopefully by the end of the year or early next year It'll be transformed into a cloned SS 502/502

Here are a few pictures before the restoration got underway

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THE  BODY

FIRST  WE NEED TO GET THIS PROJECT DISASSEMBLED AND I MEAN DISASSEMBLED

The Frame

The 6 cylinder

Now that we got it in 1000 pieces we can really get things rolling

First the frame is sand blasted and powder coated along with anything else that could possibly be powder coated

see what I meant by everything control arms , brake hubs , bumper brackets , cross member , springs , grille braces , etc...................

The body is taken to the body shop to be soda blasted

While the body is being soda blasted  the frame with the engine temporarily in place is taken to the shop to have the exhaust system installed

Now  its time to set  the 502 hp engine and transmission in place

That's where the project stands for now , check back to see the progress

Well its been a slow go on the body but they have the major body work done and hopefully soon will be ready to spray the project

Here are the most recent pictures

Still moving along at a rather slow pace

We were hoping to be cruising by now  but then you never get done when you planed too

Here are a few pictures of the final priming

That takes care of the priming now we are more than ready to head to the paint room

If all these crazy drivers around  town would be a little more careful and stay out of accidents our body man wouldn't have to keep putting the project on the back burner

Things seem to be getting close now we are getting some time in the paint room

And hopefully before long the body will be done and Tim can start to reassemble this project and things will start looking up

Here are the pictures of the first of the paint  job

 Hopefully we will be able to add pictures of the completed body soon

We finally got a slot to get in the paint room and all the body work and paiting is completed

Now Tim will take the body back home and start to reassemble his Dream car

He is going to take pictures step by step so hopefully this page will be updated  on a regular basis

With all the body work and painting finished its time to move the body back to Tim's shop

Many THANKS to the guys at Southern Body Works here in Nashville Ga. for the quality body work and paint job on Tim's DREAM CAR  

With the body back home now its time to mate the body back to the frame

With body back on the frame now all the reassembly can get started

If your project starts to get a little over budget you can always get it back on track by using child labor , as you can see in the last photo