Started body filling in lower panel and finishing up rear quarter panels
Here I put a few coats of body putty over the driver side lower panel under the door. Then finally finished up the rear quarter panels by sanding with finer grit sandpaper and priming
Hood corner rework and fill
About 15 years ago we roughly filled a weird rust spot on the front corner of the hood. It wasn’t perfect because it was meant to be temporary and I wanted to be sure the [...]
Additional fill on front fender + updated to others
There was an unusual raised spot on the front fender which I pounded back in and filled. I also continued to work the rear quarter panel and other dings will more fill and sanding fun.
More ding fills on door and front fender dent
3 more dings were found on the driver side door and filled. There was a decent dent on the front of the fender that needed a fill. Then the metal was a little warped in [...]
Work in progress on the hardtop fills and fender curves
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 [...]
Filling in small dings in hardtop, top fender, hood and back quarter panel
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.
Filling in more small dings + large front fender patch
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 [...]
Blending in the rear quarter panel welds and hardtop dents with body filler
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 [...]
Roughly sanded the hardtop dents and filled with body putty
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 [...]
Sprayed front pieces with build/filler primer
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 [...]