Status Report...(left side) body work...the hard one!
- Thread starter Terry Broussard
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Yer doin good things to that car.
Terry,
Looks good and comming along nicely. It makes me want to dust off my tools and get at some of my own projects. Keep at it you are almost there.
Looks good and comming along nicely. It makes me want to dust off my tools and get at some of my own projects. Keep at it you are almost there.
Wow, you are the man and running in the same neck of the woods as our main man Ed.
Looks great!
Looks great!
what I find is the difference in what you can get away with from one region to the next. I see a few things that up here would give a man a problem. but as you never get to 20 below won't down there. Rick was telling me why he did not do something out there due to moisture that I do every time back here. but one can tell it not the first one he has put together so it's in safe hands
there is always the question of the new steel being worth it or not. done them both ways. had some come out and some not both ways. most people don't understand you end up with about the same amount of filler either way. I drifted to the aluminium power in a fiberglass rosin type of fillers. that way I'm only using one product. but looking you can tell the man has done a number of these before so he knows what is successful for him. like the way he kept out of the lead filled door opening. most shops will handle this type of car in this manner. it keeps getting set on the back burner to get the high priority jobs run out first. the man will slip over and get the filler on then go back to a different car and spend a hr later working the filler down. then back. he can keep 2 or 3 cars moving threw the shop that way. if all he does is metal work and they have a separate painter that is. you got to paint your own you have to say on one a lot longer.
That is some really nice work...
it is a lot nicer to look at when you get the primer on. progress
Looking great. Last weekend I did my first ever body repair work on the Lifeliner. That metal piece about the rear side doors seems to constantly keep coming up with rust bubbles. So I thought if I put some effort into it I could do the repair myself.
Honestly it came out pretty good. Sanded all the paint off, deep sanded the rust spots, filled with bondo, sanded again and refilled with bondo. Continued sanding then primed and sanded a couple more times using a finer grade of sandpaper each time. Then rattle can painted it.
All in all it looks far better than rust bubbles. It certainly gives you a whole new appreciation for people that can do that kind of work. Way too detailed for me.
:cheers:
Honestly it came out pretty good. Sanded all the paint off, deep sanded the rust spots, filled with bondo, sanded again and refilled with bondo. Continued sanding then primed and sanded a couple more times using a finer grade of sandpaper each time. Then rattle can painted it.
All in all it looks far better than rust bubbles. It certainly gives you a whole new appreciation for people that can do that kind of work. Way too detailed for me.
:cheers:
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That is some really , really nice work ..
John Royark JR
PCS Member
Its always nict to see all that hard work pay off!! Looking good.
love to see it in primer. nice layer of that will cover a multitude of sins. 
looks like she be back on the road soon.
looks like she be back on the road soon.