My yearly week of shenanigans with my car buddies is quickly approaching. I was working to get Grey on the road prior to getting back to my own project but endless details made that impossible. I proposed to Tom to take a few weeks to focus on Porsti and he graciously agreed for Grey to sit on the sidelines.
On with progress.
My Father is again planning to join the trip this year as he was last year until rust and the sins of the PO resulted in the complete removal of the fenders. He is quite experienced with car projects and agreed to come down with my Mom to give me a head start on this year's push to drivability. Over 4 days we probably put in 50 hours of solid work, Mom even helped! The goal was to get the rear fenders bonded on but ended up just a bit short but took the opportunity while we had access to fix a few other issues.
Lots of smoothing of welds from previous repairs and the never ending removal of undercoating and paint.
Click to view attachmentOne of the unexpected repairs was a rusted out drivers side latch bracket.
Click to view attachmentWould have been easy to order one from Restoration Design but no time for that so cut/weld.
Click to view attachmentStill fits. You can also see several unneeded holes that we welded shut.
Click to view attachmentThe patch panels that I picked up for the project were really nice but had a couple of soft spots that needed to be repaired. Just a few angles here to sort out.
Click to view attachmentTurned out pretty well.
Click to view attachmentPanel fitted and a patch at the top of the door latch relief formed from flat. That took almost 2 hours! My Father asked if I was gong to make a career out of that piece.
Click to view attachmentTwo areas on the driver side need small patches along with complete replacement of the bottom. Part was make from a Restoration design panel and the rest formed from the bottom of another fender. Also cut out and repaired what was left of a rusted out jack pad. No pictures but it is slightly visible.
Click to view attachmentSuch an insane amount of work just to get solid medal to bond the fiberglass fenders to. I have another 4 day weekend scheduled for this weekend. Should be able to finish up the rear and get the fenders boned on. Front is next. Full steam ahead.