Owner: Jim Maness
City: Bethalto, IL
Car Model: 1965 Triumph Spitfire
Engine:
The following are just ideas I want to do with this build
Engine: Small Block Chevy
Cooling: Undetermined
Exhaust: Undetermined
Transmission: 700R4
Rear Axle: Ford 9 inch
Front Susp.:Mustang II
Rear Susp.: 4 Link
Brakes: Undetermined
(master)
(front) Disc
(rear) Disc
Wheels/Tires: 15" wheels - Tire size to be determined
Body Mods: Undetermined
Interior: Undetermined
Electrical: Undetermined
3/26/17 - Some shots of the car when I picked it up
Driverside.jpg
Passengerside.jpg
Front.jpg
Rear.jpg
Interior.jpg
Enginebay.jpg
4/1/17 - Started to disassemble the car and assess the situation.
nose.jpg
behindseat.jpg
Driverfloor.jpg
Driverfloor2.jpg
Passfloor.jpg
trunk.jpg
bodyoff.jpg
4/8/17 - Started to sand blast the frame and decided it would be better to make a custom frame.
frame.jpg
And since we had an LS mock up sitting around, I thought I'd see how it would look.
LSmockup.jpg
4/15/17 - Got the frame completely bare so I have to go off of when I start on making the new frame.
bareframe.jpg
5/6/17 - Started on replacing the passenger rocker panel
Pass_panel_cut.jpg
pass_panel_fit.jpg
pass_panel_tack.jpg
passpanel4.jpg
passpanelclean.jpg
passpanelclose.jpg
5/17/17 - After welding in the passenger rocker panel, there was nothing to weld the bottom seam to since the floor was completely rotted away. So I replaced the Drivers floor board first.
FloorOut.png
FloorCut.jpg
I had to end up trimimg the floor pan I had made just a little on one corner to fit. You can see where I had to trim in the pic below.
Floortrim.png
Floor is solidly tacked in place here
FloorIn.jpg
And here is a pic of the passenger floor pan I made
FloorPan.JPG
If you are interested in seeing how I made these floor pans, check out the video --------> https://youtu.be/Ykf64_HJj0w
5/28/17 - Got the Passenger Floor put in today. NOw I can start work on the custom frame once I get the metal ordered
PassFloorOut.jpg
PassFoorIn.jpg
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