Week #10

As mentioned, week #9 netted no forward progress due to the show in Charleston. The 'break' hit just right as the work being done now can be
very discouraging. Grind, cut, trim, all afternoon, and everything looks just like it did when you started. Sunday's work started with diggin' into that damn carb on the '72 again...@#%!$...it started acting up as I was parking the car on the return home from S.C. It's the factory carb for a '72 440 HP, a Holley, and it has an incredible design flaw internally. I was curious as to how many HP Mopars came with Holleys. Of coarse your 6 Pack/Barrels had 'em and some of your race HEMIs and....well....'72 HP 440s. I know why! I'm giving it one more chance...

The afternoon was spent grinding down spot welds and trimming to fit the rear filler panel. It ended up being a very long and tedious process.
After a good 4 hours pid'ling, I left it fitting pretty good, held tightly together with various vise grips.

I'm not happy with the corner repair pieces I have to work with. They can be worked but I'm toying with looking for better ones. While looking, I'll still work on these...maybe I'll surprise myself and do a good job on them.

In the mean time, I'm going to turn my attention to the trunk floor. It will require the same test fit, remove, trim, hammer, test fit, remove, trim, hammer....ect. I'd like to have ALL of this stuff fitted and ready and then sand blast the whole area before welding in everything.

Spot weld cutter update....I called Eastwood to order a pile of the bits for the 'old' style cutter. I mentioned to the sales person about the bit I
bought and how it didn't work for me. She said they sell a lot of those and she didn't recall too many complaints. I guess it's me...anyway, they took it back. I'm exchanging it for some of that "etching primer" in the quart cans...just to see. If it doesn't seem to be the right thing to use, I'll
let you know, then I'll go with the recommendation of the list.