The passenger side quarter panel was dented from the stainless body trim down. Upon further inspection, I could see that it had once been replaced from the body seam down at some time in it’s life. Continue reading
Other than the quarter panel, things were looking good. Overall, the floors were in good shape, with just a few pin holes that started to show up after the asphalt sound deadener was removed. If you have not had the pleasure of peeling up the 1500 sound deadener, you are in for a real treat. It is probably 3-times as thick as the stuff they used in later cars, and it is still soft and gooey, not hard and brittle like the later stuff they used. The dry ice with a hammer trick won’t work on this stuff. You have to knuckle down, hit it with a heat gun and a scraper, and have fun… Continue reading
Amazing what a little dunk will do. Continue reading
Metalworks has added photographs of our 1500 project going into the sauce here. Continue reading
This is the glamorous part of auto restoration (if you like coughing up black crud like you have been smoking 50 packs-a-day for the last 41 years!) Continue reading
The rocker panels were junk on this car. We cut them out before going to the dipper, and it was a good thing too, as they were full of crud and rust. 95% of the rocker was cut out of the passenger side and fortunately, the sheet metal was good on the rocker backing plate.
Work continues on the 1500… The car is off the rotisserie and has been mounted onto the frame which has been welded to a body cart. This will keep everything square and happy when the quarter panel is cut off of the car and it will make sure that the panels fit correctly when the body is mounted on the frame after coming back from paint. Continue reading
Today Guy and I installed the new quarter panel on the car. Last week we got everything stripped off, but we still needed to clean up the existing sheet metal and prep the areas for paint on the inside of the panels. This is the perfect time to seal all of this up with some paint before the new panel is welded on. Continue reading
The inside structure was drilled all the way through so we could plug weld the flange from the back side:
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When we originally got this car, the driver’s rocker panel was looking a bit thin, and we cut access holes so we could flush out the dirt and rust, and so it could flush out what was left. Continue reading
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