Auto Restoration 101

I was kidding….. it’s a massive dent! This happened on a 1940 Ford Coupe. Apparently it was driven underneath a four post lift that was too low. This dent had the largest “eyebrow” I had ever seen. If you look closely at the dent pictures you will notice the “eyebrow”, which is the crease that runs almost all the way around the dent. The dent was really not that hard to remove but the eyebrow crease took a lot of hammering and dollying to get out. To get the dent out my son got inside the car and pushed up on the roof with his feet. While he was doing this I was hammering on the eyebrow to relieve the pressure. We finally got it all removed.

The crease in the rear part of the roof above the back window really took a lot of work to get out.

I think this dent would hold about 20 gallons of water.

You can really see the “eyebrow” in this one. Especially at the bottom of the picture.

This is after we got the dent out and the metal all straightened out.

After the first three coats of primer was dry, I block sanded it once with 180 grit and then loaded it up with primer again for 400 grit wet sanding.

This is what it looked like after I sprayed it. We then color sanded it and polished it before we re-installed the glass.