Week #22 thru #28

I have missed posting for several weeks and for several reasons... work, house, wife, pets... you name it, it's involved. I have however done a little on the RR in the last 6 weeks...

Both "rebuilt" corners are in place at the rear window and they look pretty good. The right side corner was welded in using butt welds while the left was installed using what I'll call "supporting strips" under the edges. It was a much easier and much more "accurate" way of lining things up.

2 4" long rusted out areas at the upper right corner of the rear window channel have been patched. These fixes took nothing more than small "angle" shaped pieces trimmed, fitted and welded into these spots after the cancer was removed leaving clean rectangular holes to patch.

Wouldn't you know it, after all the cutting, repairing and prepping of my donor filler panel(between rear glass and trunk) the repop replacement panels resurface for sale again. This months issue of Mopar Muscle had a blurb about Stephen's carrying them. My donor panel had a golf ball sized dent and the trunk lip was buggered up a tad. I opted for a new panel. If you remember, my donor piece was still attached to the back edge of the package tray metal and the 2 braces that tie the 2 together... all to be installed as a single unit. Yesterday was spent separating the panel from the braces/pkg tray metal. With the braces and rear package tray metal lip still attached to each other I went ahead and welded them in place on the car. A test fit of the new repop panel showed a perfect fit. I just need to line up all the braces that support/weld to the panel, mark and drill the holes for spot welding, and then weld in the panel itself. As for the "left-over" donor panel... a '69 Super Bee (that is... its owner) has started working at a little upholstery shop on my route to work. From the road I can see that the car is in dire need of this panel. I'll probably stop and offer it to the car...er... the owner.

All permits and such are in for our new house. Construction should start VERY soon. I'm sure it will put a major crimp in what little "project time" I have now but I will try to keep the group up to date as I make any progress.