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[village idiot]

Began some other repairs recently.
Bought another pair of fenders that were better than my originals(a little better) and began stripping the passenger's side and found two sizable patches spot welded in and buried under bondo




Removed the old patches and made some new ones to butt weld in

[village idiot]

Also fixed a small rust spot at the lower front edge of the fender



Did most of the welding from the inside to make it easier to finish


Voila!



Bear in mind I'm no professional, I just have ocd and it bugs me to have to use filler. The large of the 2 patches took 2 tries to make me happy. As much as possible I'm going to try to get everything to the point where it will only need the thinnest application of filler.

[67speedfreak]

Looks like your doing a nice job on the those patches !

[KnightMare]

Your camaro looks way better then mine is the more I strip. Good luck with the rest of it

[village idiot]

I guess I got lucky as there really isn't much rust on this one:D

[village idiot]

Stripped a couple more parts and did some repair of a dent or two
Front valance had a wrinkle in it that was about 1/2" or so deep.

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After a bit of hammer and dolly work and even a little shrinking using a propane torch...

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Lower fender piece that looked like it was run up over a tall concrete curb or something similar. I was "in the groove" and forgot to take a before pic, but the very bottom edge was smashed pretty flat. Took a lot of hammer and dolly work, more torch use and my shot bag to help stretch and shape it back.



Also got a chance the other day to shoot some epoxy primer on my front fenders(and my truck's rock chipped hood).

[village idiot]

Parting shot from my cell phone. My black 69 in the back, a real 69 Pontiac T/A on the lift and a 69 T/A clone in the fore ground.

[village idiot]

Rust patrol continues....
Bottom of cowl on drivers side had a good bit of rot. Fortunately, I had patch panel from a friend taken from a rust free vehicle(crashed badly).


After. Grey stuff is seam sealer:


Other side wasn't as bad and I for got to take pics. I also pulled the windshield and was pleasantly surprised by the lack of rust under it. I'll have pics of that tomorrow.

Also got this as well as the complete AMD quarter. Now the fun really begins!

[village idiot]

Got the driver's quarter off today and that was about it. Underneath was not to bad although I will have to rebuild the fender lip as previous repairs ended in them cutting most of it off(not me).
Scariest thing I've ever done to a car

[village idiot]

More done today, got the rest of the quarter panel that was still tucked under the roof skin off then go to removing the tail light panel. Man, I thought I had a worm farm growing out of the tail light panel once I got it off.

Panel removed




View from the backside of the panel. Look at all the worms!



Tomorrow I'll get started fitting the quarter and tail panel in order to assess how far the trunk was pushed in from the accident(s).

[village idiot]

Fit up the quarter panel and tail light panel today. Found I need to juggle things around a bit. Trim here, bend there etc.
All in all the AMD panels seem to fit well. My car had been hit hard at one point in it's life before I got it so that affects panel alignment.