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I welded in all the supports I could to hold the body together while it would be on the rotissiere. [ATTACH]
I removed the body once I was happy with all the measurements for the S10 from to body mounts. The floor was pretty bad. Plus the body didnt quite...
I dont really have a plan, porknbeaner. I am just having some fun, and seeing if I can make this long forgotten rusty mess cool again.
As the body is all tacked together and I started to look at the floor and trunk, it became very obvious that a full replacement would be needed....
thank you all for the nice comments- I thought I would be crucified for cutting up a 41 Pontiac. Here is the side pic of the body all tacked...
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Here is one picture of the front fender with tape on it showing a pie cut to be made. You can see how the rear part of the fender edge is...
I lost a bunch of pictures when my laptop crashed. I wanted to show how I pie cut the hood and front fenders to narrow them. I took 4" out of each...
I dont have any plans at the moment to chop the roof. I really like the new roof line. I had a gentleman approach me at Meltdown and made the...
The finished front fender, tacked together. [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] After I was happy with the body match, I moved on to the fenders and hood.[ATTACH]
the roof overlap was intentionally left on for the time being, while I made some tack welds along the floor area to hold the car together.
well......somehow I cant find the pictures of the roof cuts,,,,:mad: but in the next picture, you can see the body rejoined after the 14" has been...
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