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Posted by: Headrage Sep 9 2006, 10:38 PM

My neighbor is the DuPont Auto rep for Southern California and has offered his assistance in the body work and paint on my car. The weather has started to cool so we started gettin er done.

Right rear first. Found some ripples under the passenger tail light.




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Posted by: JPB Sep 10 2006, 06:04 AM

Wow nice sheet metal. I started to do that to mine and soon found three layers of paint and a thin coat of glaze about 1/16 to 1/8 inch over the whole body? What the hell were they thinking PO that is? I just sent it to the body shop and tolt them to sand it smooth and go from there.

I see sheet metal, me envious.

Posted by: Headrage Sep 15 2006, 05:57 PM

After looking at the right rear fender my neighbor thought it best that I take it down to metal as he was seeing some areas he had concern about.

Glad he is helping.



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Posted by: Headrage Sep 15 2006, 05:58 PM

Found some holes where a patch was welded in.



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Posted by: Aaron Cox Sep 15 2006, 06:10 PM

when did you get the fake fuchs????

lools great!!

AND>. how do you like the MSD box???

And again... i think you need to beat on the fenders and stick some meat back there....

Posted by: Headrage Sep 15 2006, 06:18 PM

I got the Fuchs when I did the 5 lug conversion in July.

The MSD, Blaster II coil and Pertronix rock!!!!!!!!

Anybody know how far I need to pull the fender to fit 8 inch Cookies with 225 tires?

Posted by: Aaron Cox Sep 15 2006, 07:29 PM

silly rabbit. no such thing as an 8" cookie....

7's require a solid inch with 225's on em.....

8's are a little more.. aim for 2".. and HAVE THE WHEEL to mock it up on...

i bought my wheels and tires.. and made teh car fit around them LOL

and a 7" cookie has a slightly worse offset than a 7" fuch IIRC

Posted by: Headrage Sep 15 2006, 07:55 PM

Gotcha...

Fat rims = Fat Tires

2 inches we can do....




Yer gonna be jealous.........................

Posted by: Aaron Cox Sep 15 2006, 08:00 PM

man i know! i wish i could be there and watch and/or help out!

what are the plans? a "lip flare" like mine? or a "panel flare" where it is even more subtle as the whole panel is reshaped

Posted by: Headrage Sep 15 2006, 08:03 PM

I wanna do the Trekkor thing and see how far I can stretch it.....






Hey, that cannot be a new dance step, right????

Posted by: sixnotfour Sep 15 2006, 08:04 PM

8x15 fuchs,jacked out ,door gap bad, Looks Great Though.


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Posted by: Aaron Cox Sep 15 2006, 08:40 PM

stretching does have a nasty habbit of FUBARing door gaps....

Posted by: Headrage Oct 28 2006, 08:52 PM

Okay, finally got off of my lard ass and re-started on the car.

Posted by: Headrage Oct 28 2006, 09:01 PM

Update on the fat tires. I'm staying skinny. I like the look.

Quarter and sail panel stripped down to bear metal.



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Posted by: Headrage Oct 28 2006, 09:02 PM

Filled in holes for trim and re-welded some bad areas.



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Posted by: Headrage Oct 28 2006, 09:04 PM

Dollied some bulges to even out the contour of the fender. You would not believe the amount of bondo that I removed.



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Posted by: Aaron Cox Oct 28 2006, 10:16 PM

nice work amigo