How did water get there?

[Dana67Dart]

So after driving 45 minutes on the Interstate in a rain storm....

You get home pull everything out of the car to dry it out.

No water in the spare tire well
No water on the top of the trunk drop down
But there is water in the Quarter behind the rear wheel


Snap some photos from underneath and see this.
Note the horizontal line in the drop down....

Cardboard strip shows the amount of gap

In the 80s the Dart got T boned in the left rear quarter.

The same quarter that got hit by a semi trailer tire in 1969.

In 69 the procedure was drill holes and slide hammer then mud to perfection!

In the 80s it was remove the quarter skin and replace it with a doner car quarter skin.

Typical body shop of the day ( and I suspect today too) cut out the offending parts and overlap a donor skin.


Too bad they didn't bother to seal it up

At least the donor car was a factory undercoat car too!

 

[Hellrats]

Sounds like that left rear quarter panel might have a target on it.

 

[Oldmanmopar]

When its dry out take a hose and fill that quarter up and see where it leaks

 

[Dana67Dart]

I like the idea.

I believe where I felt it and where the cardboard comes through is the same.

They left part of the trunk drop down attached to the donor fender and it's just up against the original trunk drop down.

I suspect water off the tire was being thrown up into the seam.

 

[JDMopar]

They half *** spliced the trunk floor extensions/drop offs. If you ever down the car for a proper restoration, you can replace the quarter and trunk floor extension with new AMD stuff to fix it properly. Our 69 Dart GT conv has had the drivers quarter whacked sometime in its life, and I have everything to fix it but the TIME, lol.

 

[Dana67Dart]

They half *** spliced the trunk floor extensions/drop offs.

Yes they did!

If you ever down the car for a proper restoration, you can replace the quarter and trunk floor extension with new AMD stuff to fix it properly.

That would be the plan but AMD doesn't make a 67 rear quarter (tail light bucket is diferent so it will have to remain a skin. I would remove the OEM 80s skin and then remove the rest of the sheet metal that was left from the old skin and the red in it right with a new trunk extension etc.

 

[JDMopar]

Yeah, I got lucky on the quarter. I bought a full hardtop quarter. I have a plan to make it fit at the conv top molding, but it is otherwise the same. Wife wants a GTS tribute, otherwise...I would have used a skin and spliced it under the 69 GT trim at the top edge of the quarter.

 

[Dana67Dart]

Wife wants a GTS tribute

that's what my dart convert #2 is going to become. The beauty for 67 is the only visual difference between it and a GT is the fender side GTS letters and 383 FOUR BARREL I have most of the 383 specific parts at this point. BTW I have a hard plastic template for letters and emblem placement if you want to barrow it

 

[nutz]

Yeah, I got lucky on the quarter. I bought a full hardtop quarter. I have a plan to make it fit at the conv top molding, but it is otherwise the same. Wife wants a GTS tribute, otherwise...I would have used a skin and spliced it under the 69 GT trim at the top edge of the quarter.

thats what i got ht quarts for my 69 vert
the bad part for me is the area between the trunk lid and the top someone did some work ,heard i need sedan peice
how about just blowing some air in that area ,but think you know the awnser

 

[JDMopar]

The seam between the quarter and the deck filler between the trunklid and the back window is leaded in on convertibles instead of just having seam sealer like a hardtop car. I've never looked at a hardtop and sedan side by side to see what/if there was a difference in the deck filler panel. That piece is good on my car. The drivers quarter got side swiped at some point in its life and also had a limb fall and whack the top of the quarter and on top of the conv trim. That's gonna be a head scratcher to fix!

 

[Dana67Dart]

I have a section of that area if you want to see what's there

 

[1WildRT]

The lap seam is on the extension, not the quarter panel.... It could be repaired without touching the outer quarter panel.... Very minimal paint repair...

Trunk Floor Extension / Drop Off - LH - 67-69 Dart

 

[nutz]

Mine looks like some bondo or something
My body shop guy wasn't worried
But that is the area and the side window area that needs to be saved