Goal: AutoX and Time Attack monster.
A few of you might have noticed me looking for parts for this car and you might recognize it as belonging to Snyder and it used to look like this:
and then he did all this to it: viewtopic.php?t=19016
Then it was sold to gearhead313 and after a few years of enjoying it he found this horror:
:doh:
Since he is not that handy with a welder, he sold it to me where ironically I live in the city that could be argued as the capital of rust; Winterpeg, Manisnowba (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Step 1: Fix nasty rust!
After trailering it across the border I started cutting out the rust but then had to stick it outside for a while where old man winter tried to hide it on me.
I had to shovel off half of the show then pull it out of the bank and shovel the rest off and the back end came up two inches when the big chunk fell off. Of course when I started to get into it I found a few more surprises as you always do with old cars like a another rust hole in the driver's side floor
and an old fender bender repair with at least a half inch of bondo on most of the rear quarter panel
But I have made good progress since then...
most of the wrinkled and rusted metal has been cut out
Most of the grey primer is rustcheck rust paint to seal any metal that I didn't cut out for various reasons. But where I will be welding I used zinc weld through primer.
I have fabricated almost all the plates I need to fix the inner structure except for the driver side inner wheel well and the hole in the floor. There is not enough material left for reference in the drivers wheel well to fab the inner lip accurately so I will do that after the outer skin is back on.
the black plates are cut from pre fabed fender arches that I bought along with new rocker panels to put on the car. I primed the back of the parts that I made from flat sheet metal.
Next post should have pics of some welding.
A few of you might have noticed me looking for parts for this car and you might recognize it as belonging to Snyder and it used to look like this:
and then he did all this to it: viewtopic.php?t=19016
Then it was sold to gearhead313 and after a few years of enjoying it he found this horror:
:doh:
Since he is not that handy with a welder, he sold it to me where ironically I live in the city that could be argued as the capital of rust; Winterpeg, Manisnowba (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Step 1: Fix nasty rust!
After trailering it across the border I started cutting out the rust but then had to stick it outside for a while where old man winter tried to hide it on me.
I had to shovel off half of the show then pull it out of the bank and shovel the rest off and the back end came up two inches when the big chunk fell off. Of course when I started to get into it I found a few more surprises as you always do with old cars like a another rust hole in the driver's side floor
and an old fender bender repair with at least a half inch of bondo on most of the rear quarter panel
But I have made good progress since then...
most of the wrinkled and rusted metal has been cut out
Most of the grey primer is rustcheck rust paint to seal any metal that I didn't cut out for various reasons. But where I will be welding I used zinc weld through primer.
I have fabricated almost all the plates I need to fix the inner structure except for the driver side inner wheel well and the hole in the floor. There is not enough material left for reference in the drivers wheel well to fab the inner lip accurately so I will do that after the outer skin is back on.
the black plates are cut from pre fabed fender arches that I bought along with new rocker panels to put on the car. I primed the back of the parts that I made from flat sheet metal.
Next post should have pics of some welding.