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1969 Chevelle Blogs The 1969 Chevelle "SS496" came to the V8TV shop a bass boat green SS clone with a full load of hidden issues. Besides the gauges mounted all over the dash, the cluttered under hood area, and the out-of-tune 454, the Chevelle was hiding inches-thick body filler, rusty floors, bashed quarter panels, and more. We completely restored this car and added cool upgrades like tubular suspension, big brakes, all new sheet metal and paint, a trick leather interior, and a 496 stroker big block Chevy engine with hidden nitrous oxide! Follow the build videos below from start to finish, including the reveal at the SEMA show in Las Vegas!
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 The Chevelle's body has finally left the construciton jig for the last time, and now John spread 3M seam sealer on the bottom of the floors, followed by a liberal coating of 3M Body Schutz, a rubber-like undercoating designed to protect the car.
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 Kelle really got bent about paint and body stories leaving stuff out, so here's her daily masking tape count.
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 Some trim on old cars is anodized aluminum - it's got a thin clear coating over polished aluminum. This kind of trim is tricky to fix because you cannot just polish the anodized coating. Here, we show you how to make aluminum trim shine like new.
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 The firewall on the SS496 Chevelle is supposed to appear basically stock, so we welded up all the extra holes that accumulated over the years, straightened out the non-factory wrinkles, and now it was time to turn it black. So out came masking tape, paper, and plastic again for another round. The firewall and dash were shot with PPG DP90 Epoxy black.
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 Tonight, we've reached a turning point... there's color on the SS496! John mixed up some PPG sealer to cover the last prime coat, then brewed up a batch of PPG Deltron basecoat in GM Butternut Yellow. The first color application was on the door jambs, the trunk jambs, and on the backside of the fender jambs and doors, hood edges, header panel lip, tail pan, and other areas you can't spray with the car assembled. Then a layer of PPG Concept 2000 clear was applied to bring out the shine. It's bright!
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 Sealing the seams of a car body before paint is not really a glamourous job, but it makes all the difference in the world when it comes to an overall clean and crisp look. This time, we show you the trick John Blandford likes to use to make the seam sealer lines nice and straight, not just globbed on like the originals were. He tapes off the area to be sealed, then uses a pneumatic applicator gun to apply the 3M sealer. This stuff keeps all the moisture out and leaves a finished appearance. Paint is coming soon!
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 We're getting closer to spraying paint on the SS496 - the bodywork is done and today we sprayed the last coats of PPG surfacing primer! Tomorrow, the wetsanding begins to prep the primecoat for paint.
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 This time, we offer up a tip for not getting a parts-store rental spring compressor stuck in a control arm... (duh)... and then Kevin goes off on a rant about the misleading cheap paint job stories found in magazines.
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 The block-sanding is complete on our Chevelle's doors and front sheetmetal, so this time, John and the crew removed it to prep the inside of the fenders and inner fenders for paint. The process includes scuffing with Scotchbrite pads, sanding, and priming. Then the firewall can be prepped for seam sealing and paint.
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 We recieved an email asking how to convert a bench-seat floor to a bucket seat setup... here's how we did it. You also have to add the console brackets and shifter to make it complete. More on that later!
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 We're beginning the reassembly of the chassis for the last time. It's been stripped, media blasted, primed, test-assembled, diassasembled, bodyworked, sanded, re-sprayed, and now it's all going back together again. Hopefully without the need of all the king's horses and all the king's men.
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