I’m finally finishing up the sheet metal work.  I’ll do final welding in the fall when it’s a lot cooler!!  I have all the floor plans replace, front right apron, front radiator support and cross brace, all the trunk floor sheet metal and lower 1/4 panels.  My new doors and front fenders are in.

Strip out all bad metal

In the phot above, you’ll see I removed the lower 1/4 panel, tail light metal and all the trank metal.  The right rear fender extention had damage, so I remove that also.

welding new trunk metal

Here, the new metal is being placed in the trunk area and being spot welded.

Tail Light Panel

I’m now fitting the new tail light panel and right qtr panel extension.

qtr panel fitting

New Radiator support and right front apron and cross member

Inside shot of new radiator, apron and cross member

Above, I had to replace thte radiator support, cross member and the right apron because of battery acid damage to the surrounding area.

Below, I replaced the metal and welded in nuts for the hood hinges.

new hinge nuts and surrounding metal.

Below, you’ll see the new floor pans are all installed

new floor pans tacked welded inplace

inside veiw of new floor pans.

Now that most of the new sheet metal is tacked in, I started to fit the TCI suspension parts, front and rear.  I’ll address that install in the next thread.

Mark