Week #76

Took some time Sunday to finish welding in the trunk, something that should have been finished months ago. I had put off the task of welding the edge of the replacement trunk panels that are up at the top where the rear seat area meets the trunk area... mainly because it's so awkward to work there. It didn't help that the two halves of the trunk floor didn't really line up all that well there. I couldn't put it off any longer... I couldn't move on to the next step without finishing the last.

With hammer, dull chisel, gloves, glasses, welder, helmet, wire cutters and screwdriver, I climbed into the back seat area of the shell and started bangin', shapin', and weldin'. It took a couple of hours to get the contours of the two floor halves to look like they lined up and weld it all down. A little filler at the seam and no one will be the wiser. I'd like to chalk the miss-match up to the stampings as the perimeter of the replacement floor panels hit damn close to where the original floors were attached.

A couple of moths ago I found a NOS drivers side inner fender panel for the '70 in Hemmings. I had not planned on replacing this panel. This area looked as though it could be blasted and doctored up. After I saw the ad for the NOS piece, I took a good look at the battery tray spot and rethought my thinking. Sure as hell I'd blast that spot and be left with more holes than I could repair and would be kickin' my self in the butt knowing I coulda had a new panel... I jumped on it.

I also scored two very nice fenders from my parts guy... (shameless plug- J&J Cars and Parts 1-904-964-5039). I had gotten two good Satellite fenders from him a couple of years ago, but these were a bit nicer and didn't require trim holes to be filled so I swapped pairs with him... + money of course... NO parts guy is gonna GIVE you anything, no matter how logical your argument is!