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21 May

More stripping

I got a good bit of work done yesterday and today on getting the car further stripped for body removal. So far the car is in remarkably good shape (other
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18 May

She’s here!

After a few days on the road the ’72 came in from California! The car hadn’t started in the better part of a decade, the brakes didn’t work, and two
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12 May

Meet the baby…

When I opened facebook a few weeks ago to do my normal checking of car groups and unfriending of idiots I somehow accepted as FB friends years ago, I was
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01 Apr

The biggest panel replacement yet!

The quarter panels on my Cutlass were, unsurprisingly, some of the worst hit by rust on car. As you can see from the pictures below, they were completely eaten through
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27 Mar

Drivers floor pan repair

My drivers side floor pans were in pretty horrid shape. You can see from the above picture that the drivers side was swiss cheese, and what you can’t see is
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14 Mar

Drivers rocker

Note to anyone else out there doing repairs: do not try to graft in a new section of the rocker. The replacement panels do not have the exact same curve,
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15 Feb

Shoulder rust repair

This week I tackled the first of one of the hardest rust repairs on the car, the front lower shoulder area. Unfortunately both sides are toast and rusted through everywhere,
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23 Jan

Core Support Repair

Next on my project list was to fix my rotted out core support. Like a lot of these, the mounting holes were totally rusted through. My also had the luxury
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17 Jan

The first body work

After getting the windshield off, one of the first things I noticed was how bad the lower windshield channel was. It was completely rusted through to the interior in some
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11 Jan

Built a rotisserie, and body’s off!

It’s been a bit since my last post due to work and other commitments, but I managed to make quite a bit of progress these last few days. I made
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