@DPelletier: if you'll ever come to Italy I owe you one!

thanks for the detailed explanation!

PS: the first owner of my Maco Corvette is named Richard Pelletier... never managed to find him!

thanks everybody

it wasn't done in a proper body shop, but the man who did it used to run a body shop!! so... probably 10% body shop 90% hurry shop

my friend, i do restorations, and if one of my guys did work like this he'd be fired on the spot! when cars come in like this, i cant help but shake my head in disbelief that this was, by someone's definition, good, passable work...too many people out there think they're a body man because you can make anything look good with bondo....GRRRR! those of us who do proper body work are fewer and farther between all the time, im young, 27, and i learned from an old school body man, but the guys coming out of schools now all seem to be in that mode of "just do enough to make it stick and mud it up...youre right the welds didnt even penetrate like they should...man im sorry you had to pay for that.

that fine craftmenship leaves me speechless

Was the shop called "Stevie and Rays Auto Body"? Only explanation I could come up with-

what you got there is nothing compared to what I'm dealing with right now

What IS that?

Stefan, your pics remind me of my first car when I was 15.. Mine was nowhere near that frankenstein in your pics...

My car was a 41 chevy coupe with a bigblock chevy in it.. It had some rust in the trunk ( just in the two corners).. My dad was helpin me and he is just not a mechanic, he tries though.. I remember him helping me cut up some old tin cans and fiberglassing them into the trunk.. Heck at least it kept the gas fumes out of the car..

On a side note, my dad was in the marines at the end of WWII.. He was a mechanic on a Carrier working on the engines of F4U Corsairs!!!!!! STill scares me today that people flew airplanes that my dad worked on..........

Va a buttare quel deficiente nel lago!

first of all....what hail storm did he get tha piece of tin from?
as far as the weld....looks like chit to me

and it'll suck to hve to have it redone, but better to get it done, and done the right way now, then six months down the road when your new paint is bubbling up.