Hot Rods Paying for mistake.. Need advice

Before you do anything you need to put a bumper on the car and see where the quarters are ending up. What you have here are a group of constants and variables. You want as few of the latter and more of the former. Even though the car is chopped, I'll ***ume you didn't widen or narrow the catwalk (that would be ridiculous). The decklid you have looks pretty virgin, so lets ***ume that it is the correct size, especially since it appears to fit at the catwalk. Next bolt a bumper to the car and see where your quarters are lining up. If you've got gaps at the ends, then it's safe to say the quarters (which look like they've been replaced) are angled in towards the middle, closing the gap on the decklid. This could be remedied by splitting the trunk floor, pie cutting the corner of the trunk channel in the corner, and porta-powering the quarters outward until everything lines up. If the gaps at the bumper are tight, then it could be that the quarters are somehow too wide, and will need to be thinned out. Which could be accomplished by the method demonstrated in post 24. You might need to do a combination of the two.

However, if I were a betting man (I'm not), I'd bet that the issue is the first that I raised, where both quarters are angled in toward the middle. A close examination of your photo shows you have no splash pan, and what appears to be no trunk floor either. Without that material to keep things in place, your quarters angled in since they're only attached by the side and the top. Those quarters are going to need to get pushed out. I'd take 2 2x4s, angle them across the sides of the trunk channel so you're a) pushing on two spots on each side and b) on a structurally stiffer portion of the car than just the side of the quarter. If you push too hard on that you're going to stretch the quarter and put a bump in the side of the car. Once you get things where you need them, weld a splash pan in place and a trunk floor ASAP. If you don't have access to that, weld some steel across the openings until you do to keep everything braced up.

My $.02

 

so, now that we have that all figured out, do you need any more help?

 

this might help full roll pan for 49 ford

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Have you welded the trunk area?..it appears that you just need to use a porta power and spread the opening enough to fit the trunk lid. HRP