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Starting with a small patch this morning just ahead of the RH rear wheel.



Using a few different tools to pull this cavity.



Spot welds are loose.



A combination of cutting wheel and air recip,



And we're loose.



Cut and shape a patch piece.



Clean it all up.

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Tack

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Weld and grind.

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Repaired the last of the 4 torched out rocker sections.



And one last little rust hole area, belie the back corner of drivers door, near the lead seam.







That is the last of the metal work on this ford. Time for body work.

You do nice work Dave!

Thanks for posting...keeps me going on my old Heep CJ5.

when I read Dave's car rebuild threads, I just hear ole George in my head


Dave's bad to the bone



ACME auto werks is up and runnin


happy for you Dave, but have you thought about welding an outdoor furnace into that cavernous truck?


yaknow just so you don't miss the old gig too bad (grin)

Aren't the band-aids supposed to be blue to match your tape?

I like Dave's work, but you knew that!

I do appreciate a good zinger.



Guess I'll have to get a roll of blue tape just for leaky fingers and such.

I am kinda surprised they weren't Disney Bandaids

Little mermaid.

I just could not say Mickey Mouse

I was able to swing by and take a little look at ND's magic today. Glad to see talent like that make good on his skills. Good to see that ND isn't being held back anymore. Keep going forward bud!

Thanks WB, and thanks for swinging in while you were in the neighborhood.

Awesome thread Dave. Takes me down memory lane as my first car was a classic brown 69 ford galaxie. God that thing sucked some gas! But I sure had a lot of fun in it! My granny had a white 68 that would FLY! I think I saw my life flash before my eyes a few times. My uncle and I called it the white ghost. Keep up the good work restoring a classic ride!

Well, it's on to body work. I'm leveling panels today, I hope to be in primer on Saturday.

I received a few new blocks this week, a couple of them are these AFS blocks, this one is a 21" block, I have a 16" just like it and a couple of new dura blocks, one round and one semi round. These big blocks area really nice for leveling a 7' long quarter panel.





They have a spring steel face for PSA paper and they have 3 removable spring rods so you can adjust the amount of flexibility you need.


It's not fun, but it's going well.

I'll leave the car on the lift until I get both quarters blocked. It's nice to be able to adjust the height of the work.

It's got to be a little more fun than before you had all the cool tools..no?

Even with cool tools, sanding a fairing sucks.

The odds of faster success are more in my favor with the new tools. But my arms.... They be hanging tired. Lol.

I feel like I'm back in boot camp doing a couple hundred pushups a day.

I'm going to end up strong as a side effect of this new job. Lmao.

Looking good!

I just don't have the patience for sanding and fairing, especially when I get a little impatient, go a little too far or with too rough of grit, and am back where I started, or a bit further back.

That and I don't think any power tool is going to give as good a finish as a good long board as the power tools don't give you the feedback a board does.

I wish I could say it came easy for me.

Excellent progress and some real tough, grit it out work. I got rid of my last project, heart just wasn't into it and my partner was sucking the life out of me.

Little brother a bit south of you just picked up a 50 Hudson Pacemaker...kind of has that lead sled look.

Still lots of 70ish pickups out here if you want me to round you up a semi load!