The New Project: Part Deux!

[njsteve]

I just noticed on the calendar: This is the one year anniversary of me buying this car. Wow what a difference in progress versus the prior project! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

[9566 BA]

Steve
everything looks great! Its hard to put back something like seam sealer that is gobbed on or looks messy on a car you are trying to make look nice but thats how they came.

[njsteve]

Finally finished the passenger side wheel tub repairs and slopped the seam sealer on, just like the assembly line did. The best method to reproduce the original application style seemed to be by wearing rubber gloves and applying three parallel lines of the sealer next to each other. Then you smeared it down the entire length of the seam with your index, middle and ring fingers held tightly alongside each other. This seems to duplicate the &quot;triple stripe&quot; application that is on my Gramma's 75 and the other car's I have examples of.





So, in the end, the Votech adult education course at the local highschool really paid off. For $400 and 12 weeks of Tuesday night dedication I was able to use their entire body shop and all the associated welding and bodywork equipment, and get expert tutelage on its use. I removed and replaced both trunk drop-offs, repaired the passenger side trunk-to-wheel tub section, and the rocker-to-wheel tub section, and refinished the trunk floor. Sure beats the estimate I got to have the work done (by around $7000). [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]