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The right side top and front of the quarter panel, that
would be the passenger side. You can see those patches have been finished
and the metal work has been done. |
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Here is the driver's side quarter panel, the top of
the wheel lip and in front of the driver's side rear wheel; and you
can see the rust in that area is outlined in chalk and it appears
to be about the same as the passenger side. |
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Again the cutout area of rust that was previously noted
a few pictures ago; and it's the driver's side lower rear quarter
panel that had some previous damage and we've cut that rusty metal
away; and you can see the inner panel to the wheel house and the trunk
extension has a lot of surface rust; and that must be cleaned before
that new patch can be installed, to ensure that it won't rust later
and cause us more problems. |
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This is of the craftsmen at Muscle Car Restorations putting a rust
patch on the driver's side, front fender. You can see the lower part
of the fender had some rust in it, and we're actually -- had cut out
the bad metal; and we fabricated a patch; and he's actually spot welding
that patch into position. Note that he tack welds it many, many times
around the outside edge of the patch to prevent warpage. He will tack
it and tack it about three-eighths of an inch apart and continue tack
welding until the entire patch has been completely welded. We butt-weld
each and every patch we make. We don't do any lap welding at all.
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The driver's side door. This picture was taken to show the most
serious rust on the car; and this particular door, the bottom inner
panel was too bad to save so we snapped some pictures of this particular
problem to show you how bad it was. |
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That same door with the rusted area removed, and it has been made
ready for a replacement bottom from a donor door. |
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This shows the replacement lower inner door structure that we got
from a Ford Ranchero, which that section of the door is interchangeable
with the Falcon; and you can see the lower portion of the removed
part of the blue door bottom is in the picture as well; and we subsequently
welded in the new bottom of the door, did the bodywork, and it's virtually
undetectable. |
