Reconstruction has begun.

[doghows]

Mine (cart) is free if you want to use it. Should bolt right up. I think I am coming over on the 16th, I could bring it but you will probably be done by then.
I think this is the 1/2 way mile stone?? Maybe farther..

[doghows]

Here is a quick update for those of you who though I gave up.
Body work, body work, and body work. Did I mention body work.
Actually On Rogers last trip over he was helping me line up the panel and after 2 hours of frustration we measured some things out and found the front of the car to be pushed over about an inch or so. So last night I dropped her off at my friends shop and he is going to pull her straight for me. Then it will be MORE body work... But they gave me some good tips and should have it all done body wise by the end of this month I hope....
I will post a couple of pics when I pick her up from the frame shop.

[falcon6062]

Holy smokes! Well it's all for the better from this point! Right on.

[doghows]

She's back from the frame shop and the panels fit perfect. YEAH!!!! Now to finish sanding it and off to paint. Maybe. Body work SUCKS... Maybe I will catch up with Roger someday...

[BPVan]

Keep up the good work, keep plugging away and you'll get there. At least that's what I keep telling myself

[BillP 98201]

Maybe you should sneak it into Rogers garage after he moves the Flarechero to the carport

[doghows]

I was going to try that (Rogers Garage) or kidnap him for a month or so??

[Luva65wagon]

You'll have to be fast. The Flaremobile will be moving out on Friday and the wagon is coming home that evening.

Glad to hear the panels fit now. The didn't break any welds to do it?

With every day this "thing" going on in my right elbow is making doing anything tough - especially body work. I'm doing minimal amounts for now.

[doghows]

The guys at the body shop did a wonderful job. No weld broke, not even the filler I had in some of those areas came loose. He pulled it and let it sit for a day, checked it and then finished the pull. He said it was over right at about 1 inch. The relaxed the it and let is sit over the weekend and checked it on Monday and it all stayed good. The best part of all is he did not charge me any $$$$. I love it when people want to barter powder for what I need.
Whats up with the elbow??

[Luva65wagon]

Man, you can't beat almost free. Barter when you can. Glad to hear it can now move forward again.

I don't know what's up w/my elbow. But whoever is shoving the knife into it, I wish they'd stop. I suspect arthritis that I aggravated pounding all the floors into submission, since that's when it went ballistic. For a few years, since I started doing a particular job at work, which requires ungodly amounts of repetitive mouse and text editing, it has slowly caused issue in the right arm. I changed a lot of my setup at work to help, but may have been too little, too late. This is specific to the elbow though, so I should go get it checked out. Have been waiting until this project at work was done - as well as the flare-n-stein. Both are done, for all intents and purposes, so maybe I'll go see what's up when I get back from this next trade show.

[doghows]

Sanding sanding, and more sanding. This is my new best friend. Since the trip to the body shop(when I was told my friend who said they new body work really did not) I have removed all the bad work and have been re-doing it the correct way. The roof is done, and I have moved on to the sides. I will post some pics tomorow as I did not have the camera at home.
This is a very long and tedious process one I can't wait to get past. maybe this spring I will have the assembly party I have been wanting to do so bad.
Body Work is 2 four letter words???

[BadBird]

Only two four letter words?? I still have to beg for forgiveness from GOD for all the slips I made doing body work. Never thought I would get finished. It is indeed a horrible task. Then came painting and then the real tedious job of color buff and sanding. But, take your time, it will pay off. Badbird AKA Larry

[doghows]

Thanks Larry, your car is beautiful nice work. I have one plus for me. All I need to do is get it very close on the body work, and then it goes to my friends shop that paints cars fro a living. He has done some very high quality custom stuff. He need powder coating done for his 33 so we are trading. Now if I can just get it close enough for him.

[Luva65wagon]

How is it that the old bodywork was bad? Was it what you were using? I'm not sure what I'll be able to do now for bodywork with the flarechero outside, but I'll figure something out. Looking for a ghetto garage now.

[doghows]

I guess "bad" is not the right word. I suppose not correct would be better. When my helper explained it to me the way they did it was to find the troubled areas and fix them. Apparently I should have just skim coat the whole roof, and block it down with the biggest and baddest sanding board I could buy. The board is actually a marine flaring board. It is 40" long and 6" wide. Paper is very expensive, but it is working out well. I have the roof done again and I must say it looks and feels a lot better. I am working on the side panels now. They also told me to use the Rage Extreme filler. Also expensive but I guess you get what you pay for. I need to get a few pics up and boar you guys with my snail pace work. Anyway my new goal is to get it to the paint shop by January??