This has been a long time coming but Saturday was an important milestone for me. Structural and body rust repair is complete on the driver's side. This included (in no particular order) repairs to the lower portion of the front fender, new long cover, 1/3 of Engman Kit, new jackpost, hand-built inner wheel house, upper vent/door handle area of rear fender, new sill and supports, repair to lower portion of rear fender including fab'ing the "point" and transition to the sill, and grafting in a new quarter section. I have a new triangle (rear donut) but am not installing until I can get the car further off the floor for easier welding.

The car came off the road in June of 2008 because of a split fuel line below the battery. When I went to repair that, I saw how bad the battery tray and hell hole were. I had been living in denial about what was under the long covers too. So...the rustoration began.

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So with the help of my loving wife, the car was rolled out, turned 180* and pushed back into the garage so I can start the passenger side.

Had to share. I was jazzed to turn the corner!

Great job, more pic's, pls.

Nice job!! Its great to see the progress done to restore and drive these cars. Yours is looking great!!

Congratulations! Cheers to the other side!

Don't know what to say about today's find except nothing I uncover on the car surprises me or upsets me anymore. The passenger rear corner looked funny to me so I dug in.

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I believe this fine work was done in Waynesboro, VA...at least that's what the newspaper crammed into the hole before the Bondo was trowled in says it's from. And when in doubt--and you can't make a repair completely from Bondo, the next best thing is to crudely braze in a patch and then hammer the fool out of the surrounding metal so that plenty of filler can be applied before the final sculpting.

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So glad my good friend thought to snag the rear fenders from the parts car before we scrapped the very rusty, stripped tub.

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Newspaper...?

Nice work on the repairs

Been in that sort of situation so I can relate. Keep up the hard work. It's looking great!

nice! Isnt it crazy how much ugly a gallon of bondo can hide. my car is the same way. they just slapped bondo over the rust until it was full

Just think how good your going to be at repairing the quarter panels.

Makes me want to shake my head...

For fun, I just googled one of the national articles on the newspaper page that was jammed in the fender cranny. The article was about Clinton and Bush bickering and was dated July 1992. It's conceivable that the paper/bondo "repair" has held up 20 years. Who'da thunk it?

By the way, I already know there's another wad in the nose of the front fender but I'm not going there yet.

PS, filler is heavy. Just the dust alone that I swept up today had decent weight to it. I'm adding lightness to this car every time I fix it right.

Nothing like practice to make perfect(er), eh?