Since I found out today that the bolt holes in the torque coverter are stripped the **** out....and only had ONE bolt holding the flexplate & it together, I decided to start stripping the 56 down to bare metal & rust. I didn't the deck lid first and then proceeded to the quarter panel when I hit some bondo. No big suprise there, but then I hit an edge where there should be no edge. Then come the rivets! So i followed the line with the sander, and apparently someone did a entire quater replacement on this car using rivets and filler!? It runs from the tail light, all the way to the door jamb, I've never seen someone do the rivet thing at this magnitude! It has actually held up very well too, none of the filler had cracked or anything, I had no idea is was even there. It's fit very well, all I'll have to do itclean out the filler and weld the seam then get rid of all the rivets. it's a nice change of pace after dealing with all the roof flashing & rivets on the 53 i had when I got it.
strip the rest of the car to bare metal, and clearcoat it, and you'll have the most attention getting car at any gathering it's amazing what ****py paint will hide, eh?
My '57 Plymouth was fixed with bondo and fibergl*** matting, so consider yourself lucky. I bet you're wishing you hadn't even looked now, huh?
Nah, It was actually very interesting to look at since actual thought was put into it. Like I said it's fit VERY well, looks like whoever did it knew what they were doing, just didn't have access to a welder to do it %100 the right way.
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