We're digging more into the 39. Its going to get SHINY paint from FLYRITE HOTRODS after August. I really want this done right so we went down to bare metal.... and found this... unfinished welds, bad metal shaping, and lots of bondo (again!!!) Just beware when buying a car with "custom" work
Is that the B pillar? Looks like a drip rail, those are "fun" to fix, correctly. I found newspaper and roofing tar/sealer "patches" in the floor of my Elky. I'm just basikly stripping anything that has primer on it or won't hold a refrigerator magnet, to see what's under it.
Ha, i know what you mean Found some crazy **** under neath the bondo of the front part of the cowl on both sides! this is what was under the bondo plus many unfinished welds and cracks in the sheet metal but when this thing is finished, it will be... how they say...***S! CAB
That'll be a bit of work to fix, but isn't all that bad. Having worked at a restoration shop for 5 years, I've already found, under bondo on a car body (and most of these were 35K 55-57 T-birds) wheelwells made of garden hoses, rocker panels made from rain gutters (like on your house) a section of a quarter panel which was cut out nice and square, then a piece of cardboard was stuck in place and mudded over, once found a coffee can flattened and riveted to a lower rear quarter panel, blocks of styrofoam and expanding foam sealant/insulation (been guilty of using that on some beaters myself ) I've also seen holes filled with window-seal caulk, windshield urethane, duct tape backing holding mud to the car, floor pans repaired with riveted-in licence plates, and so on. Crazy what people will use to fix their cars.
It always seems that people fix there cars with things that are indestructible. Duct tape, garden hoses, tar. They all have a half life. I guess thats why you have to start digging to find them. People use cheap **** cause its cheap and it worked. Not that it makes our lives any fun.
I was helping someone paint-strip a car years ago, and we found some concrete that had been used to repair rust in the lower rear quarters !
The 74 Pickup that ended up as the ch***is under my Unibody had the rear fenders fixed with black garbage bags with bondo smeared over em. looked ppretty good until the bondo fell out and I was going down the road with the trash bags flapping. Kinda wished I took a picture. Dawg
I've seen cardboard and bondo used to shave door handles and stuff. WTF are these people thinking. and wood to cover a hole that the batery rusted through... um if metal cant hold up to the batery acid, I think the woods not gonna do any better. White trash engineering at its best.
just watch shows like pimp my ride etc, they do terrible metal work, its not just the amatures, some of the so called pros do ****ty work and cheat aswell thankfully not all cheat,... thank god there are people out there like cole etc etc that do awesome metalwork...
pimp my ride should be renamed "what not to do 101" i saw them use bondo to fill in a whole, and they didnt even use the good bondo with the fibers atleast. i dont think thatll be a show that shows you where the cars are now, cuz they're prolly in the junkyard.
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