California Flash

This car is incredibly nice.....no rot. I bought some Harbor Freight assorted HD wire wheel attachments for my electric grinder and went to town. My preference would have been to blast it....but I wanted to forgo the media mess and make sure the exterior paint currently on the car did not get damaged by an errant blast. remember to mask up, it was a solid six hours of filth, but once you are dirty....finish the job

on the spare well, I put a small, narrow spare trailer tire / rim (4") in the bottom of the well to 1) elevate my guide mark and 2) keep both cuts consistent , then added a 1" wide board a tad shorter than the diameter of the well to use as a guide and made a circle.....then did the same on the new well. Then I laid the new piece on my flat metal table top for minor trimming to get it to lay as flat as possible and did the same with the stub mate attached to the car. Used a piece of leftover cabinet face for my flat surface and the floor jack to hold it in place for the stub to mark any "high" spots.



marked it to keep it indexed the same when taking it on and off. ....then off to my fab guy. with my help and the floor jack to hold the new well in place, he tacked it about every 4 " until he was all around.