These fills were quite a pain to do. Here is the update. It was still a little challenging working out some waves even with the long sanding block but I am slowly getting it to a smooth surface. I started to spray guide coat primer over this area, then sanding to better see the low spots visually. Here I started [...]
More small dings are found and filled. One in the rear quarter panel, 2 on the top of the front fender and 1 on the hood.
As you know with restoring 40-60 year old cars, the auto body work never seems to end. I found more dings on the hardtop to grind out. Then the new replacement passenger front fender came with a small defect with a small bulge poking up. I hammered it back down to prepare the fill. Thirdly, I began patching up the [...]
Several years ago, I applied a few coats of body filler over the welds on both of the rear quarter panels. I had thought it was roughed in but I was way wrong. The body putty needed to be filled in wider and several coats more, with back and forth sanding with the long flexible block. You need a long [...]
I tried my best to hammer the large dents back with no luck. So I proceeded to fill them in with body putty. There was quite a lot of back and forth between applying more coats and sanding . Like always, I ended up needing to sand a much wider area to feather it out smooth. Someone with more experience [...]
Those rusted front fender extension and valance panel still weren’t perfect so I sprayed them with the special build up filler primer, then sanded and repeated a couple times. Here is what they look like now .
