Project from Denmark

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It's been a wile since my last update, spend much of my time at work, but also with my Girl friend, she's not always happy when I am gone all weekend

But have made some progress, more or less. Got more of the car disassemble in order to get the new rear 1/4 panel on the car.

Started to clean the edge all around the roof and the rear panel, so I could drill all the spot welds, in order to replace the roof and rear 1/4 panels.



Next I looked at the roof from the black car, and the front of the roof panel was rusted away, that will make the roof replacing a lot more difficult.



Luckily my own roof front, was in perfect condition, so I could reuse that.



After drilling all the spot welds in the roof, I made a cut in the front part of the roof, so I could weld that part to the black roof. It will take some precision welding, luckily I have gotten some copper plate, to put next to weld area, and hopefully draw away most of the heat from the welding, so that the roof won't come out of shape.



When I pulled the roof of, I saw that the rear cross panel, was rusted badly several places, so that will also be taken off, and the one from the black car put in instead, as it has no rust at all. Measured the car several places, and welded a support bar in to it, just to be sure.





After roof was taken of, I started to close all the drilling holes, damm.. that toke a lot of time, also made a piece of rust, in this corner.



Next step was to drill all the spot welds in the rear 1/4 panel, and there was a lot of them, a very time consuming effort, but then it will be done correctly :wink:



After some work, the panel came off, in one piece, so it can be restored, with some parts from the black car.



Off cores everything couldn't go as planned, when I removed the rear 1/4 panel, the inner panel diapered, it rusted and held together with newspaper and filler...



This would take a lot of time to rebuild, even worse I did not have the old parts to build after... So I had to go looking for some kind of used part, to build after. This toke me a lot of time, but I think I have found enough parts to rebuild it.

So just for my own enjoy, I made a small test fitting of my new rear 1/4 panel, can't wait until I can weld it on to the car



That was my update, a small update will in a few day's. I have been looking for parts the last month, I have found some guddies.