Last summer I saw an add on craigslist for a 1975 Vega. Had this car when I was a teenager and loved it. Went to go look at it expecting to see a complete rust bucket. To my surprise I found a very good car. This car was a South Carolina car, was purchased 12 years ago and moved to Ma and put into storage in a barn for 12 years. The car was in very good shape. There was some surface rust and a couple of badly rust areas. looked like it even had the original paint on it! Heres what I started with
So the plan for the build is to put a 454 efi into it, one piece fiberglass 1971 nose with a tilt front end, full cage, backhalf and tub in back end. Car is getting full restoration with media blasting inside, outside, and underneath, 2 tone paint black with charcoal stripes, custom interior, ect. This car will be more show, but will be built to perform on the drag strip.
Over the winter I started media blasting the car so I can get it into epoxy primer. I know most people cut up the car and do there mods first, but I wanted to see what I really had to work with. Plus it is nice to go down and work on a car with no rust and all one color. What i found was one small dent or rear quarter panel. Other than that the car has never been hit. Unbelievable for a 38 year old car. I did find a badly rusted drivers door on the inner skin. Not sure what to do about that. Fabing up metal for that inner skin would not be easy. I built a rotisserie to roll the car over onto its side. Cost was about $75 to make and was worth every cent for blasting the underside of the car. Heres a link to see the rotisserie in action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70ggHl6GGZA