74 Dart Sport Restoration

The major body work is now done and the body is painted in epoxy primer. I'm just going through it and fixing all the little small stuff.

I had to fix the passenger door under the mirror where it had rusted out. I fabed a small patch panel 3x5 and replaced the bad area. I had gotten replacement doors and a deck lid for free from a duster before it went to the crusher. A guy let me take them off.

I was just going to replace the passengers door but I didn't want to fool with door alignment. The original fit perfect so I just fixed the bad area.

I'll finish blocking down the body with 400, then apply a grey primer surfacer and block that down with 400, then apply a grey primer sealer and wet block that down to 600.

In the mean time I've been working on the inside of the deck lid. It's the replacement deck lid I got off a duster for free. The original had rust holes poping through it. The replacement has a dent in it right in the middle near the lock latch hold down as you can see. Right in an area that would be extremely hard to remove the dent. It doesn't affect the alignment nor the top side of the deck lid. Only I will know it's there, I'll fix it some other time.

Stripped it down to bare metal, applied an epoxy primer, applied the grey surfacer and sealer and sprayed the top coat the other day.

The top coat is actually much darker then the pic shows.