Warpage
Okay so I'm absolutely no body man whatsoever so take this for what it's worth. I have a customer who has a 65 GTO and had extensive rear quarter panel damage on one and corrosion on another one.. on the passenger side he said he wanted to just completely take off the whole rear fender and put a new one on and he had ordered it. I said look I'm no body man but I'm more than willing to help you. So he got a torch and melt it out the Lead at the roof line and we drilled out the pop rivets. We cut a lot of the fender out right up to the rivets on the door end and on the trunk and and anywhere needed around the wheel lips and everywhere. we took off the entire fender from door to tail light from roof to wheel well... We lined it up using measurements from the passenger side from front to back and so forth. It turned out excellent. So he decided to save some money and buy some patches for the driver side and the same thing that has happened here happened to him. Too much warpage still way too much body work to be done to it. We ended up just buying a whole driver side quarter panel from roof to door two tail light two wheel well... In the end much much easier. With virtually only one spot that needed body work at the roofline. He was able to take a week or two and really work those two roofline seems into something that I would say was absolutely perfect. We ended up doing the trunk the tail light panel and everything. Even putting major patches on the floor boards and all four floor Wells... LOL the only good part of the car was the roof...
^^^^you see on this panel we cut it off kind of one piece at a time so we can get easier access to the rivets to drill them out...
And here back in epoxy primer with again just the very littlest bit of body work done to cover the roof seam backup...
^^^^here it is dropped off at the body shop for its last little bit of prep work and paint...
^^^ 13 days later we were picking it up...
I've seen I sure of classics at car shows and what they ought to look like in this card definitely turned out B plus or a minus at the very least... Considering it was a $6,800 paint job and not 10 or 20 I think it turned out absolutely awesome..
Definitely no Bondo wagon for sure...
Okay so I'm absolutely no body man whatsoever so take this for what it's worth. I have a customer who has a 65 GTO and had extensive rear quarter panel damage on one and corrosion on another one.. on the passenger side he said he wanted to just completely take off the whole rear fender and put a new one on and he had ordered it. I said look I'm no body man but I'm more than willing to help you. So he got a torch and melt it out the Lead at the roof line and we drilled out the pop rivets. We cut a lot of the fender out right up to the rivets on the door end and on the trunk and and anywhere needed around the wheel lips and everywhere. we took off the entire fender from door to tail light from roof to wheel well... We lined it up using measurements from the passenger side from front to back and so forth. It turned out excellent. So he decided to save some money and buy some patches for the driver side and the same thing that has happened here happened to him. Too much warpage still way too much body work to be done to it. We ended up just buying a whole driver side quarter panel from roof to door two tail light two wheel well... In the end much much easier. With virtually only one spot that needed body work at the roofline. He was able to take a week or two and really work those two roofline seems into something that I would say was absolutely perfect. We ended up doing the trunk the tail light panel and everything. Even putting major patches on the floor boards and all four floor Wells... LOL the only good part of the car was the roof...
^^^^you see on this panel we cut it off kind of one piece at a time so we can get easier access to the rivets to drill them out...
And here back in epoxy primer with again just the very littlest bit of body work done to cover the roof seam backup...
^^^^here it is dropped off at the body shop for its last little bit of prep work and paint...
^^^ 13 days later we were picking it up...
I've seen I sure of classics at car shows and what they ought to look like in this card definitely turned out B plus or a minus at the very least... Considering it was a $6,800 paint job and not 10 or 20 I think it turned out absolutely awesome..
Definitely no Bondo wagon for sure...
