Thread: Work junk, and junk... at work. By 'junk.

Ended up adding to the door not quarter, to close up that gap by the handle. The quarter did need a little welding nearby also.



This was also nearby so I took care of it between door welds, while cooling. I have yet to make the inner panel that attaches where the empty holes are. Any plug welds I don't like get ground flat and drilled with a flat-nose spotweld bit then re-welded.



These two pics illustrate why I can make a living doing this. Why is there so much crap out there? I only know one way to do metal and taught myself. "What were these people thinking?", I sometimes wonder. There is absolutely nothing special about how I do it, and at any given time I bet theres ten guys within ten miles that could do better than me. Its just plain common sense and execution, but this could just be an example of not knowing what proper work looks like. Thats what you can learn here if nowhere else.



After I had the rod edge all welded and trimmed, I pulled the door off and welded the split where I clearanced it for rocker interference. This is done and rattle canned with OER brand etch primer to keep it clean.











Also had plastic dead-blow hammered and trimmed this spot a little, and welded the corner where it was thin.





Pulling off this job Monday to go build the Mustang back up. I heard something about other jobs on the way too. Couple wrecked pickups and a couple hot rods. A 34 Ford floor and other rust job was the interesting one mentioned.

Make that a trivia question... What kinds of cars are those 3? Year, make, model. No searches.

80's camino

50's caddy maybe, the tits on the bumper make me want to say caddy.

early 70's charger.

Originally Posted by Scottydoggs

80's camino

50's caddy maybe, the tits on the bumper make me want to say caddy.

early 70's charger.

BZZZT! (bee sound) Nope. Yeah the 84 Conquista was cake but nay on the others. You did nail the GM/Ford/Mopar part but thats it.

seabring or satellite or road runner then lol has to be one of them, the rear quarters seem to be road runner ish.

is that 55 buick road master? rainmans car? im a excellent driver, only on Wednesday lol

Originally Posted by Scottydoggs

seabring or satellite or road runner then lol has to be one of them, the rear quarters seem to be road runner ish.

is that 55 buick road master? rainmans car? im a excellent driver, only on Wednesday lol

Prolly as close as I'll get for guesses unless eric pops up. 70 Plymouth Satellite, 53 Buick Super. Portholes are a Buick thing, people. Back then you got four instead of three on a Roadmaster.

not to bad for not using google lol

Originally Posted by Scottydoggs

not to bad for not using google lol

I can tell you were there lol. Not too shab. But those portholes shoulda grabbed you by the Buick, maaan.

im not up on the 50's cars at all. they all just look cool to me lol details i know not.

My Dad is the old car ID ninja. Like me, he don't care what they make now but stuff from the fun days we both know. Me from 60s-90s and him from 30s to 60s. Grandpa bout shat himself first time he saw a plane fly over lol. He was resting in the shadow of his horse.

I thought the last one was a Dodge Dart, lol.

Bigger than a Dart! Its about the size I like.

Camaros are stacking up so its a good thing I finished (well, almost) the Mustang today. A 69 Camaro showed up. I'll be putting full quarters on it and the previous work is very nice compared to the 68 in the background. All I had time for was these, I hit the door at a run today.

you have to know this one lol

Hell yeah I know of that song!

These belonged to my friends in HS:







Found and fixed up this one for my GF in like '95:



I wanted the engine from this one for the el Camino so I traded an ATV for it and sold the car with the tired engine in it-



That was in 08, with less hair.



So I have been around Camaros enough, I guess. But these are really my first ones to do bodywork on. My friend has a handful of first gens.

all of them Z's are asking, well begging for a split bumper lol that solid bumper with the push bars are so ugly.

Yeah those guards gotta go... like first day.

Rinky-dink headlight adjusters ate my lunch today, but I thrashed past it ha ha. All done but cowl needs a buff yet. Far from perfect but vastly improved...







In this pic, due to sun angle, you can see that I stopped blocking at the lower body line-

Originally Posted by idrivejunk

funny thats a 73. now i haz to ask the question was the spoiler the correct one? it also has the trim around the marker lights nice. Me and my dad spent 6 years fixing one up we never got to paint it but it was brand new under the hood and under it. http://westcoastcars.net/pages/73Z28...28_HomePg.html

Originally Posted by ericspecullaas

funny thats a 73. now i haz to ask the question was the spoiler the correct one? it also has the trim around the marker lights nice. Me and my dad spent 6 years fixing one up we never got to paint it but it was brand new under the hood and under it. http://westcoastcars.net/pages/73Z28...28_HomePg.html

I don't know whats correct for either the Mustang or Camaro. I like 2nd gen F-bodies but I'm getting dipped in first gen here lol.

Back on the 68 today

Dive right in and peer up and forward through the passenger's rear side marker light hole, and look to the right of the trunk hinge where the LED lamp is shining. See the row of welds? It was not welded there before today. Only tacked from the topside at the corners. I cut the tacks loose and had 8 or 9 vise-grips where you're looking, welding in between.



Stick your head inside the trunk and look. See the closest two welds? Made those from this side (just blew thru on 16 ga setting since no holes this side) but the rest were done from the inside, around the front of the hinge support in a no camera zone. These were all blind welds, meaning no peeking just feel and zap. But I did observe the cherry to confirm each weld.



The rear window panel side of the flange was swiss cheese because it was drilled through upon removal of the old quarter. :roll: So there were plug weld holes on the other side. Each weld penetrated well.



Before claustrophobia sets in lets get the hell out of there. Heres how the topside looked at beginning and end of day:



Hey, get your nose out of that corner and back up a little!











That was all just little zap-zap grind-grind to square things up. After that I began to remove the previous gap fix nearby at the trunk. Met my old gold friend, Rod Braze.







I can't stand that stuff.





All clean. Now I can fix that. Look what else showed up! With the obligatory dent of course but no squashed corners. See the low spot at about 10:30?



More as I go along...