72 TA : New Project - Page 58

**MosportGreen66** · #**571** 03-05-2008, 04:30 AM

Dust in a body shop is inevitable, but I feel so bad for the bottom of that TA... you slaved over every last detail... Does look straight though Steve!

-Dan

**njsteve** · #**572** 03-06-2008, 01:09 AM

Dust I can clean off. I will be getting the body back once all the sheetmetal work is complete and in primer. That way I can dust it off and install the rest of the exhaust, the fuel tank, fuel lines, etc.

I was dead in the water for a while due to the trunk floor not having been fixed, so ENOCH decided to replace the trunk floor, so I could do some more stuff on it myself. When he decided to keep going after fixing the trunk floor, I wasn't about to stop him.

Here are some shots from this morning. They carefully masked off the underside to keep the overspray away and primered (with low air pressure) the small section underneath the trunk floor. Eventually the "newer" red primered section will be very hard to tell from the original primered area. Plus, the majority of the replaced trunk floor section is blocked from view by the gas tank.

**njsteve** · #**573** 03-31-2008, 10:04 PM

Some more recent progress on the car. They are hanging the doors and pre-aligning the front end sheet metal. Looks like a whole lotta block sandin' going on.

**njsteve** · #**574** 03-31-2008, 10:10 PM

Some work on the right side trunk to rear quarter seam. Looks like he didn't like the taper to the gap, so he cut and rewelded the edge section to get it straight.

**njsteve** · #**575** 03-31-2008, 10:11 PM

The rear, lower, tail panel area, after the dented section was undented and welded back in.

**njsteve** · #**576** 04-02-2008, 01:08 AM

Here's an underside shot of the smoothed out trunk floor repair. Ready for the red oxide primer.

**njsteve** · #**577** 04-02-2008, 01:20 AM

The passenger side lower rear quarter had a rust hole in the lower section behind the wheelwell. Since I didnt want to be worrying about what exactly was inside there for the next 20 years, Enoch did the right thing and cut the outer skin off in an example of automotive exploratory surgery.

I'm glad he did, since the trunk extension was very scaly and needed to have a good sized area replaced, even though it looked perfect from the outside. He ended up using pieces from the donor quarter I bought for the drivers side front quarter repair and a reproduction Camaro passenger side trunk extension, to make an accurate repair.

The outer skin repair comes next.

**njsteve** · #**578** 04-13-2008, 04:36 AM

I stopped by the shop today to drop off the rear window trim so the panel between the trunklid and rear window can be aligned exactly. Here are some current shots. It is starting to look more and more like a car.

**njsteve** · #**579** 04-23-2008, 04:08 AM

Well she is home now. I picked her up this afternoon so I can put the exhaust, gas tank and lines etc., back in. And also to let the body work set and shrink a few weeks too.

When I backed the rig into my driveway I heard a hissing sound from one side of the trailer and a jingling sound from the other. The hiss was a small bolt stuck in the tire. I was able to patch that pretty easily. This is what the "jingling sound" was:

Look a little closer in the holes. You can see a bizarre brake drum problem.

The brake drum cracked and sheared off the hub. All the brake components remained intact but the drum kind just spun happily along with the wheel and hub. I guess its time to change all the hub/drum assemblies $$$

Jeff H · #**580** 04-23-2008, 06:38 AM

The progress looks good Steve. Can't wait to see it in paint. Now my JL8 can get painted at the shop and hopefully start to go together real soon. I just need to sell something(my L78 or crossram parts) to pay for the remainder of the restoration.

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