'67 Valiant 2 door sedan for Drag n Drive
There was no way in hell to save the drivers front quarter... and new sheet metal is not available for the Valiant, (only Dart). So, a member on here traded me a rear door from a more door Valiant that had the body lines I needed. I cut the replacement metal out of that rear door, and replaced my mangled metal with it. Sounds easy now, but it wasn't. Here's a few pics...
Not perfect, but my bodyshop guy is going to get the final lines right when we go to paint....
Then, I filled in the gas cap hole..
And continued with the body work on the quarter panel. I got a lot of hammer and dolly practice, and must have used 200 studs for my stud gun puller. Eventually, I had both sides reasonably straight.
Tired of bodywork... I moved on to doing the balk-half kit from S&W. Here's what it looked like off the pallet...
Mocked up the 9" housing and 4 link... lots of measurements, squaring, leveling, re-measuring...
There was no way in hell to save the drivers front quarter... and new sheet metal is not available for the Valiant, (only Dart). So, a member on here traded me a rear door from a more door Valiant that had the body lines I needed. I cut the replacement metal out of that rear door, and replaced my mangled metal with it. Sounds easy now, but it wasn't. Here's a few pics...
Not perfect, but my bodyshop guy is going to get the final lines right when we go to paint....
Then, I filled in the gas cap hole..
And continued with the body work on the quarter panel. I got a lot of hammer and dolly practice, and must have used 200 studs for my stud gun puller. Eventually, I had both sides reasonably straight.
Tired of bodywork... I moved on to doing the balk-half kit from S&W. Here's what it looked like off the pallet...
Mocked up the 9" housing and 4 link... lots of measurements, squaring, leveling, re-measuring...
