Today in ill advised rust repair....

"Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer" (dash-doorhandle-and-bondo) 06/25/2020 at 21:49 • Filed to: None

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Trunk extension and bottom of wheeltub. I had already done this side but it was a little crude and I was really just guessing where the wheel well lip went. I was off by a good inch.

I got fed up trying to shave and fit a 5 foot long chunk of car so I got fed up and cut it in half. I welded in the trunk dropoff right at the 90 degree bend. That daylight you can see isn’t bad fit it’s yet another missing chunk of car. The s cope creep of this project is off the charts.

There is a proper way to do this and this isn’t it but for this car it’s this or nothing.

I have to go to real work tomorrow, but I might get at cutting and welding the other half if I get home early enough. I’ll still have to do rust repair on the “new” quarter when it’s final ly on the car .  But at least I won’t be making patches all the way up to the glass now. 

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 06/25/2020 at 22:21

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I can't believe you've stuck at this. Props to you. How are the doorhandles? Still good? Good.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 06/25/2020 at 22:26

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Doorhandles are good, plus there’s 8 of them so we’re covered for doorhandles.  

shop-teacher > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 06/25/2020 at 22:27

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Wow. I'm going to be damn impressed when you make this thing look like a car again.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 06/25/2020 at 22:30

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But only one dash vs 100,000 rust holes, 1,000 remaining, means the good parts are still outnumbered.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 06/25/2020 at 22:40

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And the good parts are not great. But at least the driver of the parts car had the good sense to abandon it by 1974. T his car was on the road until 2007. 

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > shop-teacher 06/25/2020 at 22:47

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It’ll look like a car for sure, There’s some stuff I cant’t fix. There’s a particularly ill-fitting door I can’t do anything about. It needs to go up and in, but would hit the roof and be higher that the cowl, which is factory crooked where the toe boards meet the firewall, and that’s just the way Plymouth made her. 

shop-teacher > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 06/25/2020 at 23:10

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“Factory crooked" is officially favorite new technical term.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 06/26/2020 at 00:00

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Good grief! It was practically a rolling lawsuit waiting to happen!