Brew Posted July 3, 2021 Posted July 3, 2021 Howdy! Hope all are well i bought my 70 Monte 6 yrs ago. It ran & drove fine. One owner. sat outside for a few years & had a leak under rear window with boxes of car magazines in trunk. So inside rusted out pretty bad. anyway, I’ve been hard at work over the years & we are just out of paint & beginning reassembly. this is my first ever restoration so I learned as a went. Definitely would do things in a different order if I did it over. I look forward to getting to know y’all & your Monte’s 4 Quote
MC1of80 Posted July 3, 2021 Posted July 3, 2021 Welcome Brew! Looks like a nice car to start with. As you know we love pics here! Quote
stangeba Posted July 3, 2021 Posted July 3, 2021 Welcome D.B.! Looks like your doing a great job. Love the pictures, keep them coming. Quote
Canuck Posted July 3, 2021 Posted July 3, 2021 Welcome! Nice progress on your Monte. This is a great group here with a lot of knowledge. Quote
Dtret Posted July 3, 2021 Posted July 3, 2021 Welcome. All the above. lol. Someone has a real good feel for patch work. Nice job. The progress is great and that is a great looking color. Well done. Quote
Gregs70 Posted July 3, 2021 Posted July 3, 2021 Welcome, car is looking great keep updating us with pictures Quote
Glen Posted July 3, 2021 Posted July 3, 2021 Welcome DB! You guys that know bodywork never cease to amaze me. I have absolutely no patience for such tedious work. She looks great! And like everyone else said, keep the pictures coming. Quote
420ponies Posted July 5, 2021 Posted July 5, 2021 If you still have the back glass out you can install some drain tubes in the corners of your Monte.( Nice bye the way ). They are petcock pieces from AutoZone. I have them on mine and draw water from the corners when it is rained on, (Rarely) . the tubes run down to the check holes in outer trunk fender piece. I like the color of yours ? Here is a picture of mine. It's been restored since '08, no issues.. They are about an 1" from bottom of corner drilled into to the rear package tray lip. Hope this helps. Quote
stangeba Posted July 5, 2021 Posted July 5, 2021 Isn't the original back glass mounting design terrible! If they only would have brought the trunk lid all the way to the glass then the water could run down to the bumper area and stay clean and dry. My 76 Thunderbird had a trunk lid like that. No problems..... 1 Quote
Brew Posted July 5, 2021 Author Posted July 5, 2021 45 minutes ago, 420ponies said: If you still have the back glass out you can install some drain tubes in the corners of your Monte.( Nice bye the way ). They are petcock pieces from AutoZone. I have them on mine and draw water from the corners when it is rained on, (Rarely) . the tubes run down to the check holes in outer trunk fender piece. I like the color of yours ? Here is a picture of mine. It's been restored since '08, no issues.. They are about an 1" from bottom of corner drilled into to the rear package tray lip. Hope this helps. Auto zone huh? I will check it out. Thanks for that tip! Quote
Brew Posted July 5, 2021 Author Posted July 5, 2021 34 minutes ago, stangeba said: Isn't the original back glass mounting design terrible! If they only would have brought the trunk lid all the way to the glass then the water could run down to the bumper area and stay clean and dry. My 76 Thunderbird had a trunk lid like that. No problems..... When I was ‘discovering’ the lower back glass rot issues a good buddy was with me in the shop. We took out the glass & as it became apparent that it was bad, he said “Typical of their sickly breed!” And he was damn right. Quote
Dtret Posted July 5, 2021 Posted July 5, 2021 38 minutes ago, Brew said: When I was ‘discovering’ the lower back glass rot issues a good buddy was with me in the shop. We took out the glass & as it became apparent that it was bad, he said “Typical of their sickly breed!” And he was damn right. Yep all the A bodies are like that. Bad design. Quote
willie Posted July 5, 2021 Posted July 5, 2021 Its been 50+ years you think they should of figured something better out by now... Quote
Jared Richey Posted July 5, 2021 Posted July 5, 2021 Nice! SOMEONE KNOWS WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE THEM STRAIGHT! Might as well buy 2 Gallons of filler lol Quote
71SSclone Posted July 9, 2021 Posted July 9, 2021 Great looking Monte. Excellent job on the body work! It looks great. I'll be going down that road soon. John Quote
Beaver Posted July 21, 2021 Posted July 21, 2021 Welcome Brew! What a transformation! Really dig the color. Welcome to the group! Quote
1970mcss Posted July 22, 2021 Posted July 22, 2021 Welcome, you body guys amaze me, I which I had those skills. Great looking car and great looking color. Keep up the good work Quote
Brew Posted July 22, 2021 Author Posted July 22, 2021 16 minutes ago, 1970mcss said: Welcome, you body guys amaze me, I which I had those skills. Great looking car and great looking color. Keep up the good work For the record I didn’t do the body work. Quote
1970mcss Posted July 22, 2021 Posted July 22, 2021 Got ya, then you have someone working on the car, looks great Quote
Montemedic Posted July 22, 2021 Posted July 22, 2021 Welcome and looking good. Nice progress !!! Quote
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