The first body shop I worked in, a crappy one, the boss mans nickname was Putty, you can probably guess why. I saw bondo do amazing feats of strength there. A lot of experimentation went on. I learned how NOT to use bondo there. Did build up my sculpting skills though, which is important.
Greeting! Before you spend any more time and money you need to make sure that the structural braces and body mounts under the bed are solid, the '60 Chevy (Kansas car) I was working on became a parts car after I found out most of what I needed to replace under the car was unavailable from the repoppers, hope yours is in better shape, Mike
yeah, when i saw that i laughed and then cried a little, then i threw up in my mouth a little. partly because of what the guy actually did to make the car and partly because of the car itself. that front end is just hideous and, well the rest of the car is pretty hideous also.
The seam to the right of the patch is where another quarter was gas welded in years ago, it was from an Impala, the truck must have been hit at one time in its life. I'll have to cut it out to fix it, there's no way to beat it out.
Whilst I haven't had the bed off yet, from underneath I can see that everything is structurally sound, the floors are good too, thanks for the advise, I hope I don't find any more nightmares.
There was a body shop in town known for crappy work. One job a friend redid had a big piece of wood screwed to the quarter panel to close up the door gap before bondo-ing. They also took 2 wrote off cars and cut them down the middle and welded the good parts back together, kinda. Bondo replaced the metal structure. The new owner had an inspection, and it made the news. And I just remembered my 55 chev. When I took off the paint there was a vertical rust line in front of the rear tire that they 'fixed' with sheet metal, screws, and bondo. Looked good with paint though.
I was getting pretty depressed up until I found that part. Although he uses the word "imagineered" so much on that page it almost ruined it again.
If I never see roof flashing again it won't be a moment too soon. This is the back half of the quarters, the repro panels aren't even close to matching the contours in the bottom corners by the taillight, there will have to be some modifications made.
Ah! The Horror! I re-did a 1957 Ranch wagon that had the rear quarters filled with chicken wire, concrete and bondo.
It's not too bad, I've seen way worse, my old one looked better but underneath it was pretty damn sad. This isn't the rustiest car I've had, that honor would go to my old right hand drive Consul Capri, it was beyond hope, well it was beyond anything I wanted to tackle, it was a good parts car though.
Redoing a roof on a 32 Ford I was told it was full of Bondo but we had no idea how full how about 1 1/2"
I found some more pics of the Cuda "Mud cap" quarter panel replacement and thought they would be appropriate here... For those who missed the first post with one picture, this is a metal quarter panel patch GLUED on over the original green quarter with ONLY bondo. No screws, rivets, welds... only bondo!!
Tons of progress to report on, driver's side rear quarter tacked in, I ran out shielding gas on Sunday. The inner's weren't so good on this side, I had to do multiple little patches. Here's my ever taller son. Inside of this side is pretty good but look at the outside, the guy loved his roof flashing. Rear corner was rusted out, I had to make a patch in pieces because of the compound curves. The seam to the left is the factory join which was leaded over. I had to melt the lead out first, the plasma cutter will melt and spray that shit like hot lava.
Oh yeah, I just found out this thing has a posi in it, after laying down two thick black lines on the road.
Good Lord! I hardly recognized the little devil! It's been a good 5 years or so since I've seen him I guess. Making progress rules. Can you come out here and help me with my Hudson? HA!
Keith, he's nuts about Legos, absolutely nuts, that's all he talks about, he has no interest in his die casts anymore, although he is holding a Morris Minor van I bought for him at the English car show yesterday. Maybe it'll be a stormy year and I'll see you again this summer.
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