Friday, February 19, 2016

Well about 2 weeks ago I slipped on my kitchen floor and wrenched my back so I have been dealing with the aftermath of that so no work on the car last weekend. Today I had a couple of friends from South Carolina stop in for a visit so I took the opportunity to get them to help me roll the car outside to look it over in the sunshine.  Good that I did because there a number of places I thought looked good that need help on the body work. I am all pilled up but hopefully I will get over this back issue and get back to work both at my job (cause I can't afford to loose it) and on this car.


Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Finally this weekend I thought I was going to get some paint on but only managed to get the K2 primer on and start to sand the trunk lid

Monday, February 1, 2016

In case anyone was wondering how I went about creating the flared holes in the close out panel, after I created the panels and used a shrinker/stretcher to contour them to the hood I drilled a series of 1/4" pilot holes along the center of the panels. I then widened them out with a step drill bit. For anyone who has never used one these are an excellent nonviolent tool for making large holes in sheet metal. Unlike large twist drill bits they give you a nice round hole. The hole was enlarged enough to fit the center bolt from the punch/flare die. The two halves are then tightened down until the hole is punched and then the subsequent flare is formed.