While I was at the MCACN show yesterday, my steel Dr. was hard at work replacing some more rusty sections with pieces we cut from a donor car that Bill Hamel is parting out that had a tree drop on its roof and front end. The car is inside at Wheelhop's shop, so Jim is letting us go and get what we need.
Thanks Bill and Jim for the great metal parts source.
Eric also welded up most of what we had installed last week, so that took a bit of time. All-in-all, some more great progress to get the welding and replacing of the package tray, and having to clean the extra metal from the donor pieces to ready them for the install.
Quarter panels will be soon!
It will be a couple weeks now before he can come back, with the Thanksgiving holiday being part of next weekend.
The package tray area had some fairly serious rot on the driver side that worked its way into the inner structure behind the quarter panel, so we need to replace that before replacing the whole package tray, even though the package tray itself was salvageable. The piece off Bill's parts car is so clean, that we decided to use it long as we're at it.
Outlined area here shows the rust in the structure of the driver side sail panel area.
Clearing out the area to get the section removed.
Removed at the spot welds
New donor piece being installed
Goodbye old package tray
Hello new package tray, oh so much nicer.
