Car is now prepared for media blasting. In fact, it'll be sand blasted in local metal workshop and then epoxy primer will be painted instantly after blast. All closed structures and boxes between body panels are now open and they are easy to blast and to paint epoxy primer. Once again, thanks to Juhani from Custom Creations (or homepage www.ceecee.fi) for body work. We also removed rear quarters and Juhani added some strengthening 'roll cages' to keep unibody structure straight.
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Rear fenders need also rust repairs. Parts were ordered from YearOne.com and are made by AMD. But they reported that AMD doesn't produce inner fender parts any more and right side is out of stock. Gladly we found right inner fender from Ebay! Torque Boxes are standard on T/A's, AAR Cuda's, Hemi's, Convertible's and six pack models on model year 1970. Unfortunately this car had lost driver's side torque box and front one was partly damaged. So we had to fix them and missing one was found from 1971 Convertible. Reproduction Torque boxes have had problems, they don't fit well, I've heard. There might be difference between different manufacturers, but several brands are reported to not fit correctly. Peter has done a good job (as always), now trunk floor and extensions are repaired. You can see on two first pictures that rear fenders needs also rust repairs. We'll back soon! The project has got a jump start, thanks to P.J. We decided that Peter will complete rust repairs in the States, before sending car to Finland. Problematic areas, as always, will need to be replaced: trunk floor and trunk floor extension. Here are couple of shots: |
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