Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire 64 Ford Galaxie project.

I thought I'd post up a status on the first classic buggy to roll through my new business.

Here's the old Ford out in front of the shop before tear down.



coming apart



this quarter was bashed in and rusted through.




prepped and fit a new one.







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got an aftermarket spot light hole that needs to be filled.

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I love those old Galaxies.. Looking good Dave.

Veddy cool but you store moving boxes in the trunk? You need help...perhaps a hunt?

passenger lower quarter had issues too.



The outer wheel house had some swiss cheese also.



So, I cut that junk out too.



wheel house repaired.



prepped for repair panel.



Cut from this:



welded.

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I really like these type of threads ND!

Go Dave go

Some issues under the car.

these trunk floor supports, very common to rust, but nobody makes replacement braces.



So, I cut that chit out and made new ones for both sides of the rear support.





A little nicer than what was in there.

Now for the real challenge... I dreaded even starting this mid trunk floor support.



Junk... where do you even start?

keep the pics coming!

Well... luckily the "flats" where still pretty solid, as in the contact flanges that where factory pinch welded to the trunk floor skin.

So, I decided to try to salvage them and remove the rotted structure from the weld flanges.



Couple of voids there.

With a beer, would be my guess.

There's the center piece.



and the tapered LH piece.



Now I have to come up around this trunk floor radius.



I got the can opener out and pealed back the trunk floor skin. removed a chunk that had rust holes and pealed a solid piece open for more room to work from the top side.



I cut the thin brace metal back to solid edges, prepped for welding and fabbed a tricky piece of channel which I notch cut for the radius and then I fit it from inside the trunk. It worked out pretty well.





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Tomorrow I will fab the ends for this mid trunk floor brace and install them from inside the trunk. Then I can patch the 4 or 5 Rusted areas in the trunk floor skin and move on to the next problem area.

or three.

I'll smooth those welds and make things all pretty under there, right now I'm just happy to have the structure intact.

I think I'll blast the belly of this ford and hit it with a black epoxy, to keep it nice for another 50+ years.

Having one now, but it was coffee and mt dew that got me through the day.

Amazing skills ND. Glad to see you doing what you love. Thanks for the visit yesterday BTW. Joe still has the perma-grin from his first venison harvest.

Great thread.

It serves the purpose of allowing us old lazy asses to live vicariously through someone who actually has enough gumption and talent to actually do something.

We can sit in the chair,...pull up the thread, look at the pics and say, "Yeah!,..I woulda done it just like that too!", while nodding our heads enthusiastically.

^^^^^ I'm still working on the old part (not much longer) but I have the lazy ass part down pat.

I love the fact that I can go for a short drive and see this magic happen first-hand. The threads make it all the better. It gives us something to inspire about.

well, it's my "day job" now so...

Hopefully this will move along a little faster than the old road runner thread. lol.

I have a 69 Mach 1 coming to the shop this week too.

Gonna be cool having a pair of iconic fords in my shop at the same time. (cool for me, cause I don't mind the Fords) lol.

I've done a lot of other stuff on the car, I just don't have pictures of every step, lol.

Some basic skin grafting:



This is another common 64 galaxie problem area. A body brace at the rocker level between the back edge of the door and the rear tire, traps dirt against the inside of the body skin and it rusts through.







both sides needed this same patch, and one fender.

The welds were completed and sanded smooth of course, no picherz...