This sunday I remembered to bring my camera so I have some photos to show the progress.
The driver's quarter and door have had all the major work done and have been sprayed with 3 coats of high fill primer.
It still needs final block sanding and some smoothing, but you'd never know that quarter was a cheese factory when it started. There was a dent with a 1/4" of bondo in it!
All that sanding makes things dusty.
The new hood from Arizona arrived. It will require clean up but the old one is bent at the hinges and rotted out in the latch area, so this southern one is way better.
New trunk lid, also requiring work. But the old one is held together with rust and bondo, so into the bin it goes!
New tail panel, same reasons as above. Here we are drilling out the spot welds to get just the piece we want.
In a strange coincidence, all three bits, from three different cars, from three different locations in the US, are all the same ugly red. Did they paint a lot of Torinos orange-red or something?
Finally in the new panel department, a skin from Auto Krafters for the passenger quarter. This will be MIG welded in this week.
Most of what I did yesterday was clean up and undercoat the inner fender areas on both sides, and undercoat the fenders. Now that this is done, the fender can be reinstalled for final block sanding on the driver's side.
First though, have to fix the rusty spots.
Then prime it up. Looks a lot better one colour!
Time for some seam sealer! Now water won't get in and do it's thing again.
Finally, two coats of undercoating to make sure the car lasts another 40 years.
Same thing on the other side. Fix the rust, prime, seal, undercoat.
Then the fenders. Prime with a special rust primer, then undercoat. The lumpy parts are the original undercoating that I didn't bother to scrape off, since no one sees it.
Lastly, we started on the cowl cleanup.
At this rate, it'll be ready for paint probably by August. I might get to drive it for a month before it goes into storage!
