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, but I started with the drivers side first. Here is a reminder of how bad it looked:
The first thing I did was to cut everything out. In hindsight that’s not the smartest thing to do… but luckily it worked in my case. Once I got everything chopped out, it was just a matter of putting in the new shoulder panel and fabricating some 16 gauge steel into the bottom fender support. I’m leaving out the holes for now so I can drill those to match once the new fenders are in, but otherwise I think we’re pretty solid for now!
