My First Ever Project Build.

[craigF]

Well, Saturday saw us remove the roof skin and sail panels off the car completely for the first time and for an old girl she was in reasonable condition. The majority of rust was just a build up of surface rust with the only problem areas being in the lower section of the sail panels. We will cut and patch those sections with new metal. I spent the rest of Saturday doing the donkey work cleaning rust and rubbing back to bare metal with the end result being me looking like i had been down a coal mine.
Once clean we epoxy primed the frame and painted to prevent further corrosion. All the little spots we couldn't get to were coated with a rust converter prior to paint. The end result really has made me pleased we removed the roof.
While i was busy playing in the rust Woody was lining every thing up on the rear end to see how well the new panels fitted. (or didn't)
These new panel really are best just treated like good condition second hand panels that will need some work. They obviously don't have any sort of quality control in Taiwan!!!! Over all with a little tweaking and cutting i think we will get a good looking result. I do have to keep reminding Woody the the car isn't going to be a show car where someone is going to get the Verniers out and measure the gaps it's going to be a car for driving. But i must admit it still needs to look good.
Over all a good days progress.
I'm contemplating putting Dynamat over the roof panel and rear quarter panels before they go back on. What do you guy think. Is Dynamat really worth the price. $200.00 for three square meters.