Quarter Panel Installation (1500 Project – 11)

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.

The edges were masked off and Zero Rust was painted on the inside of the quarter panel structure:

The inside of the quarter panel was masked and painted on the front half (where the paint gun won’t easily reach when the car is in color:

Then the panel was very carefully installed. This took several hours of fitting to get all the gaps and profiles right. Guy is an expert at this and I was really impressed with his methodical work.

A few hours later, this is what it looks like:

And the inside of the trunk:

Everything needs to be finish ground, but at last the major hurdle body wise is handled. A couple more weekends of metal work and the car will be ready to go to paint!