Auto Restoration 101

It’s been quite a while since the last update on this project. In the following pictures more work has been done to the inner rear wheelhouses. The excess metal has been trimmed up and both halves are now tack welded. Also the upper trunk floor has been final welded to the body. [...]

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The work continues fitting the replacement back half to the original body.

This shows some of the work going on inside the trunk. The outer wheelhouse braces are a two piece design, so we were able to connect the replacement brace to the original brace just like it was originally. [...]

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Here are more pictures of the rear clip fit work. It took several days of trimming to get it close to fitting correctly. There is really no way for me to explain how we did this other than sliding the replacement rear body up to the car, marking the areas that needed cut off, [...]

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At this point the body is mostly apart. The front sheet metal and doors have been removed. The next step is to start trimming the replacement rear half to fit on the car. This took a lot of planning and measuring.

The car with the front fenders and hood removed.

The replacement four door [...]

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