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Buttoning up some odds and ends

While I had hoped to start cutting the boot off the car I got hung up on making the front fit better… guess you could say I wasn’t too happy with the fitment. I also started a punch list for the body work so I hopefully don’t miss anything. I am happy to say theContinue reading “Buttoning up some odds and ends”

Starting to look like a car again

Over the last week I have worked on getting the front end fitted, back when I decided to go fiberglass I had two thoughts about it one it can’t rust and two I don’t have to weld anything… Now that I have a decent grasp on welding I kind of wish I just went withContinue reading “Starting to look like a car again”

Scuttle on

Because I am waiting on some panels for the rear I figured I would knock out the scuttle. If you search back several posts to where I cut the scuttle off you might get an idea of why I pushed this off for so long…. Either way I had to take the dive at someContinue reading “Scuttle on”

Right side done…

Yep you read that correctly… I finished the RH side of the car today… This is gonna be somewhat long so I am going to get straight into it. So the last update I had finished the RH door step/post and had the door on looking pretty good. Next task was to get the innerContinue reading “Right side done…”

The pile of panels is getting smaller

I seem to go in bursts with this stuff. I have a really good couple of days then I just don’t want to look at it. Then when I want to work on it I want to do other things… like go mountain biking… which I have done the past two days… and tried workingContinue reading “The pile of panels is getting smaller”

Peeling back the layers….Literally

Feel like I was on a roll today, I decided it was time to do the RH door post and step. I figure I can follow the same path as the LH side as it seemed to work out ok. But before I did that I couldn’t help but grind on the B and CContinue reading “Peeling back the layers….Literally”

Quarter panel is on :-)

Was finally able to get gas for the welder… go figure the place I went to Monday at lunch was out of my bottle size so I had to wait until the afternoon. I found this somewhat amusing because had I tried to get a new tank Thursday or Friday I might not have hadContinue reading “Quarter panel is on :-)”

I ran out of gas :-/

I had hoped to have the LH quarter panel on by the end of this weekend, I was well on track to achieve this goal as well…. Then I ran out of shielding gas for the welder… and all the supply shops are closed on the weekends…. bummer I also had my cheap harbor freightContinue reading “I ran out of gas :-/”

Misc button up and moving onto the next big repair….

So after I got the passenger door post/step done I took a few days off, just couldn’t bring myself to touch the car. Breaks are ok as long as I get back into it, its been a slow start but I feel like I am making some progress. First thing up was to finish upContinue reading “Misc button up and moving onto the next big repair….”

Door post/step/flitch done

My last update I had test fitted the door and it lined up pretty well. So I built on that and got some final trimming of the flitch panel done, then prepped the door post and step for welding. I also painted the backside of the A-post closing panel as this won’t see the lightContinue reading “Door post/step/flitch done”