1960 Starliner build thread

Max finished the Right Door patches.


Then he started the upper right rear fin rust out repair. The first 2 are after he cut out the rotten first half section.


Welded & welds ground.

Tomorrow he will do the same to the other 2 ft section of the fin, more to come.

 

Max finished up welding in the patch panel in the front of the right trim area rust thru then ground the welds. The right side is starting to look good a couple of other small things to do.



Next is the trunk floor it is just a little hole'e.



More to come.

 

Some progress on the trunk floor.
The galvanized looking center was supplied by Dave the silver looking new hand formed metal on the right & lower left corner was made by Max.

This new panel is the right side made in the shop.


Another hand formed piece for the right side.

All the right side pieces tied together.

Panel made for the left side.


Thats it for today more next week.

 

Personaly I think the '60 Starliner is one of the best looking cars ever produced. Saw one in '60 on the show room floor that was lavender color. Lusted for it ever since.

 

You do awesome work....not quite sure you are supposed to advertise your services in this portion of the hamb though?

 

max started removing the rust out in the trunk & found another replacement panel needed to be made.




Some attachments strips were made to Ty in the new panels to the old.


More to come.

 

Max got the other piece for the left side made & the sub pieces welded together & starting to weld into the trunk area.

 

Max did a bunch of welding on the right side hand made replacement panel & coated the inside of the rear panel with por 15. Then started fitting & trimming the rusted trunk lid drip rail section into the fin area &down to the tail lite opening.

















Keep watching for the continuing build.

 

For got a picture.

 

Max got the right tail fin patch welded in & ground today.















& more to come.

 

More progress the left side is all welded up and ground.

The left is finished welded.


The center section is in for final trim & start tacking in.


Thats it for today.

 

The rear panel is taking shape Max had to replace the rusted thru lip area the goes just under the bumper I think a rubber flap attach's to it guessing. we did not do the disassemble Dave did again its all in the details of the metal.

The trunk floor center is starting to come together. Lots of weld, grind, hammer & dolly work.




And more to come.

 

Trunk floor is all welded up & good part of the grinding done.





Its getting there.

 

That's some beautiful fab work being done!
Can't wait to see the finished product!

Jim

 

Max spent the day grinding lots of weld footage & some touch up welding, its starting to look good.

 

Max got started on the left rear qtr ugly now but he will change that.













These panel are not available like the rest so they are hand formed.

 

More progress on the left rear quarter.





Por 15 coated at the end of the day.

More to come.

 

Poor old girl was about done. You brought her back!! Great work.

 

The rust mights had eaten away on the upper left fin so some work need to be done.

















It's getting there 1 step at a time. A little more welding & grinding then on to the next part.

 

More progress on the Starliner the back 30 inches was rusted thru in quite a few places so a new section was fab-ed up.

Old section cut out.

New lower quarter welded in & the upper qtr top fit.

Notice the upper recess line is in for the factory trim to fit to.


The top section still needs to be welded in & ground that's tomorrow. Keep watching.

 

It's a tougher then it looks welding in the top section keeping it from warping like a ruffle potato chip & banana combined, but Max got the job done.

 

A small patch had to be made for up under the left rear fin.


Then it was on to final trim & weld in the main left rear quarter patch that Max made.



Another patch had to be made for the bumper inset area.

Now where off to the Monroe swap meet more next week.

 

Max worked on the very rear of the left quarter where the bumper recess goes back side first.






Inner & outer hand formed patches.

The 2 panels as they will fit on the car.

Outer recess cut out

Por 15 coated

Good start on the welding

Thats it for today.

 

The work looks great. I have been following this thread and maybe you have said before but what guage metal are you using?

 

Most of the panels we build are 18 gage AK DQ steel. The modern ak is only a few thousands 3 or 4 thicker then the original 19 stamped panels. The rolling mills seam to roll the new steel to the thinest of the guide spec it seams to me that way they get more sq footage out of the billet they start with. Also the 18 gives us a little more grinding room so we don't grind to the OOO to thin category when building replacement panels.

 

Thanks I have been doing a little patch work on my 63 floors. This is my first attempt at it and thats what I am using.

 

The left front wheel arch was a rusted bad on the underside. So Max made a new section to replace the rot.

 

Max did a little finish welding, hammer, dolly & shrink disc tune up work today.









Now he is off on vacation he will return to this project May 31ST.

 

Where did you get the round magnets? I like them!

 

I got the magnets at the local nut & bolt store then added the bolts for handle's or if you want to be trick use cabinet nob's.