Sorry for the long rant .
I had a 72 Demon 340/4spd just out of High school. I dented the r rear quarter right where 4 lines come to a point next to the tailights. I was trying to knock it out when a friend of my dad's came by. He told me to wait ten minutes and left. When he came back he had an apple bushel basket with an electric grinder. body hammers and dollys, metal files, a devillbis spray gun and more ! He showed me how to work the dent out and then said I could have the tools ! He just sold his bodyshop and was retiring to florida. Well there was a lot of rusty cars do to bad metal back then so I was fabricating door bottoms and quarter bottoms , pop riveting them on then bondo primer and paint. They came out god aweful but my customers were friends and just wanted an inspection sticker. I got better and better. I restored a 1956 Ford F-100 pickup and painted it myself. I was a lumber salesman at the time and a customer who owned a bodyshop kept asking me who painted it. I couldn't believe I did it myself in a garage and did not even buff it after. He offered me a job and I did autobody for 20 years . Nasty trade health wise but I enjoyed the work. Now I've been a Building Engineer for about 20 years now . Restored and painted both my Darts.
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