Body Metal Work (Eric – 06)

The largest and most difficult task of this process turned out to be the metal work on the body as I decided to have the body acid dipped. A week at the dippers to get all the old paint, undercoating and bondo off it turns out that I have my work cut out. The floors were bad and had those from the 1970 car that was processed as well as the 2/3s of the trunk floor was replaced as well as sections of the front and rear rockers, front and rear quarter panels and battery frame rail as well as many small rust holes. I had some front end damage to replace as the grill support was not usable and remade using some square tubing. The front corner where the body mount attaches was replaced from a donor car. When it came time to all this work I spent about four weeks close to every night after my regular job at Micheal’s sorting out the rust repair and all the modification that I proceeded to do to the body.

A special thanks to Micheal, Kari, Olivia, and Aidan for putting up with me and my noise and smell.

The modifications that were done to the body were brake reinforcement, early dash conversion with functioning defrost and early column, battery box, filling all the holes that are not used (there are a lot), all of the fire wall holes, seat brackets for a fixed back seat.