My Panel is home!!! Pictures!!
 

Well I finally got my panel home... My step dad and I pulled a 36 hour driving marithon to do it, so I could be back here to accept a truck freight order that I had coming in. Anyway for good or bad it is here.... Kind of dissapointed in it, because there are lots of problems with the body. The previous owner was a bondo king and not a verry good one. Has way more rust that I was lead to believe. Both front fenders will have to be replaced do to the amount of bondo in them. The hood is pretty good, but I was going to replace it with a cowl induction hood anyway. It has a solid radiator core support, inner fenders, and firewall. The grill and drivers door are marginal but fixable. The floor and kicks are great, but it needs new rockers. The barn doors are trash and someone cut a hole in the floor to get at the gas tank sending unit instead of removing the tank like you are supposed to. There will be a ton of hours in straitening the sides to make them nice and both the front and rear bumpers will be replaced. The worce part is the cancer rust above the windshield. I drove it in the rain today and there was as much water coming through the top of the windshield frame as there was outside!!!! Do we have any volunteers to come help with the work... LOL OH Well, I have it home and when done it will be nice. Here is a link to the pictures:

http://www.printroom.com/pictureSear...?userid=wehepp

http://www.printroom.com/_vti_bin/Vi...=0&param=70943
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http://www.printroom.com/_vti_bin/Vi...d=2&param=1765
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http://www.printroom.com/_vti_bin/Vi...11&param=99586

WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com


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WOAH!!!!
That look s a whole lot better than I was expecting!!!.
AWSOME DEAL!!

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'69 G.M.C. 350/350. Trying to clean up the left over damage from the Dope-Smokin-Old-Man
I've been dubbed the Longhorn Freak/Fanatic/Expert, I just hope I can live up to it.
FINALLY got the HORNIAC...a '70 one ton Longhorn with a Pontiac 350/350 and lots of 'personality'. Check out The Longhorn Webite.
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Andy, in Columbus Ohio




[This message has been edited by longhornmail (edited April 15, 2002).]

Thanks longhornmail, I wish I were as enthused as you. Well I guess I have my work cut out for me on this one. Any volunteers..... LOL Also I deleted the first time I posted this because the pictures didn't come out but I will be useing the upper windshield patch panel. We also offer those for sale and it will be a good opertunity to show the fit. Although the patch was made for trucks and not panels and suburbans, hopefully we can still make it work. WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com

WOW, It sure looks GOOD in the pictures. Pictures can lie, I guess.

Enthoused...you fix up my Longhorn, and I'll do your panel. deal? http://67-72chevytrucks.com/board/ubbhtml/wink.gif (heh heh heh)
You see it as alot of work that you don't have time for, I see it as something to tinker with on weekends when the wife is buggin the crap outa me.

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'69 G.M.C. 350/350. Trying to clean up the left over damage from the Dope-Smokin-Old-Man
I've been dubbed the Longhorn Freak/Fanatic/Expert, I just hope I can live up to it.
FINALLY got the HORNIAC...a '70 one ton Longhorn with a Pontiac 350/350 and lots of 'personality'. Check out The Longhorn Webite.
If you need a pic posted, E-mail me at longhornmail@yahoo.com
Andy, in Columbus Ohio




[This message has been edited by longhornmail (edited April 15, 2002).]

Looks pretty good. It is always scary to buy something you cannot see in person. ESCPECIALLY IF IT IS IN PRIMER, that always scares the HELL out of me when they say in primer ready to paint. YEA RIGHT, MY A$$. Everybody's idea of ready to paint is different I guess.

I agree with you NSANE68!!!. I am reasonably happy with it and would probly have purchased it anyway. I just hate being lied to... It is not what the seller said it was by any stretch of your emagination. If you click on the link to the pictures and then click on the pictures to enlarge them you can see what I was talking about. Holes from a slide hammer, rust and etc. WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com

Wes,it looks great from the pictures.If you think thats bad you should see some of east coast trucks LOL.
I have a truck for sale right now and the picture makes it look like $6000 to $8000 truck,when its what I belive a $2500 truck.
Anyway goodluck with the panel,wish I could find suburban around here in that shape.

Ray

Hey Wes, that's one nice looking panel! About the rust, try a foot up from the bottom on both quarters. But I haven't seen rust like that around the windsheid on mine (yet). I didn't know these came with sixs in them. Wish I lived closer to you so I check out how those barn doors mount up. Going to change over to them from the lift gate system soon. Like I said that panel is one nice find, never see them here in upper Ohio area.

I just read the option sheet on this panel and it came origanally with the factory shoulder harness seat belts!!! Figures they are gone also. WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com

I hate to say it WES but welcome to my world..You are actually probably further ahead than me on my Panel! At least you have your stance done. Good Luck, and keep us posted!

Wild


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Scored a near mint set of barn doors today with all the mounting hardware for my panel today, along with a 72 Suburban 1/2ton rolling chassis and all the patch panels I will need to fix the rear quarters. This is going to come together great!! WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com

Stance...wait till the big block goes in!!!

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'69 G.M.C. 350/350. Trying to clean up the left over damage from the Dope-Smokin-Old-Man
I've been dubbed the Longhorn Freak/Fanatic/Expert, I just hope I can live up to it.
FINALLY got the HORNIAC...a '70 one ton Longhorn with a Pontiac 350/350 and lots of 'personality'. Check out The Longhorn Webite.
If you need a pic posted, E-mail me at longhornmail@yahoo.com
Andy, in Columbus Ohio

Yaaaaaaaaa!!! Big Block!!! 6 cylenders make good boat ancres and grocery getters, but Big Blocks!! Yaaaaaaaa!! http://67-72chevytrucks.com/board/ubbhtml/smile.gif LOL WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com

Wes I really feel for ya about that leaking window! My 68burban leaks like a sive on the inside too. Probablly not as bad as yours. What mine likes to do is just seep and slowly drip down the window, and trying to see out the window would be like trying to drive drunk. LOL everything looks all blurry, but the odd thing is,is that there is only surface rust on the lip where the window sits against and the rubber goes around. I know the window in it is a replacement so my guess is that the retard that installed the window didn't know what they where doing!

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You could break out a bar of soap and take a shower with the leaks that my windshield has...LOL Oh well it will just have to be fixed. If your windshield is just starting to seep and you have some light surface rust on your seal lip, do yourself a favor and pull your windshield, stop the rust, and replace the seal. You will be stopping a huge problem for the future of your Burb. A little expence now will save you a huge repair in the future. WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com