My 78 Civic CVCC Project

bob78cvcc · **Posted:** Sat Sep 05, 2009 12:12 pm

My project has been ongoing for a while. I bought this car with the intentions of slightly improving it. After all, it had a pleasant looking exterior and the inside was OK. However, after I began to explore deeper, I noticed it was a cosmetic cover up and needed some serious attention to do justice to the project.

Upon pulling up the carpet, I couldn't help but notice the weakness in the passenger side floor pan and the degree of rust along the door sill.

This process was repeated as I pulled off the front fenders :cry:

Nice rust along the outer sill and door jamb

The right side wheel well had its share of rust

And the bulkhead and roof rails had their problems too. :evil:

bob78cvcc · **Posted:** Sat Sep 05, 2009 12:32 pm

What really got to me was the roof rails. When I pulled off the headliner and looked around, I noticed the sunlight was peeking through the roof rails. They were neatly covered up with silicone and nice white paint. :shock:

Here's what it looked like after that coverup was removed

Under the hood needed some metal work too

Luckily, I found a new battery tray from Great Britian.

bob78cvcc · **Posted:** Sat Sep 05, 2009 12:40 pm

All the metal work has been completed, the car has since been primed and the new paint has begun to be cut in. I'll show you some pics of the progress.

Here's the new metal for the floor and sill

The roof rails repaired and the roof properly lifted

bob78cvcc · **Posted:** Sat Sep 05, 2009 12:58 pm

More Pics of the project

Door jam and wheel well repairs

bob78cvcc · **Posted:** Sat Sep 05, 2009 1:06 pm

All primered up & cut in

ben · **Posted:** Sat Sep 05, 2009 11:26 pm

Beautiful work! I'm glad to see some Honda projects undertaken with such care. Where are you located? Any chance we'll get to see this thing in person at a car show someday?

bob78cvcc · **Posted:** Sun Sep 06, 2009 5:15 am

Thanks for the kind words. I'll try to make Carlisle in 2010. I'm in S. NJ.

bob78cvcc · **Posted:** Sun Sep 06, 2009 5:50 am

Here's some parts that I've refinished while waiting for the bodywork to get done.

Original Grill

Painting the silver outline

Refinished Grill

Refinished Grill & Emblems

civic-79 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 06, 2009 1:58 pm

héhé!!! nice honda and good working :tu:

.sooperfresh · **Posted:** Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:41 am

nice job on the grill.

john · **Posted:** Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:13 pm

You guys are making me reeeeeally want an early Civic...

xemoto · **Posted:** Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:30 pm

You've done good to that grill. :tu:

bob78cvcc · **Posted:** Thu Sep 10, 2009 6:12 pm

Refinished the Tach Gauge and Face

Refinished the Deluxe Gauges

ben · **Posted:** Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:39 am

I didn't ever notice they were blue before. Fantastic job, though.

2ndGenGuy · **Posted:** Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:41 pm

Yeah, the stock blue gauges are sweet. Is the Civic the only car that's ever had that? I can't recall ever seeing that anywhere else.

bob78cvcc · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2009 5:21 pm

The car finally got sprayed with new paint.

It is now waiting to get buffed out and cleaned up.

bob78cvcc · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2009 5:50 pm

Had this set of rims less the tires shipped to me from the west coast. They'll have to be cleaned up and refinished to match the ones in the 78 Honda accessory catalog.

After the rims are refinished, I have 4 NOS hubcaps waiting to get mounted

to be continued ...

bob78cvcc · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 4:47 pm

While the rear skirt is awaiting further cosmetic work - I refinished some pretty neat factory option overhead speakers that are designed to attach to the lip of the roof at each rear corner.

john · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 6:57 pm

Wow!

Making great progress there. :tu:

ben · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:54 pm

Those speakers rule!

My 78 Civic CVCC Project

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