You truly are ambitious, my friend, as well as talented. I know a couple of folks capable of what you are doing but I'm not one of them. Keep us posted- that will be a beautiful car when you're done.


Tim

Once I got it floating there i just moved the car to it, attached some ratchet straps to the frame rails and the other end to the front of the steel jig and pulled it the final 1/2" into place. The chain fall made for the perfect up and down fine tune adjustment until the whole thing was in the exact spot that the old parts came from and then it was just a matter of plug welding. Not including the fab of the jig, the whole process took about 5 or 6 days.

More to come later, time to get out to the shop and continue!.

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Wow, rareT/A that car is beautiful!, must have been hard to sell for you. Did you sell to make room for another one?.

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Yes. We only have room for 3 play cars so it got sold to make room for the 09 R/T. To be honest using the cash from the RR we only needed $2500 of our own to pay cash for the R/T.

Here it is with the new rear frame rail section welded in. Once I had all the plug welds done I disconnected from the chain fall and checked all my measurements and reference points, as I had been doing all the way through the process, OFTEN!. Everything lined up perfect!.

From the bottom.

More!

Hi, Just curious why you didn't media blast the new section before welding it in?

After the new sectin was welded in I removed the rest of the old quarters that I had left in for further reference points and started to focus on all of the rot from the leaky lower rear window corners. More parts not being repoped yet so more doner hunting I went and with great success. Another Craigslist ad led me to a `68 coronet parts car that someone else local had brought up from GA, took what he needed off of it and sold the rest to me for almost nothing. It had the solid understructure parts that come down to the top of the wheelhouses as well as a nice package tray and trunk hinge brackets and window corner parts, as well as a bunch of other parts that I will put to good use as I make my way forward on this car. I have already sold off a bunch of parts I didn't need from that deal and ended up with over a thousand bucks back in my pocket. That is like getting paid to buy parts, if that makes any sense at all. With the money I made back on that deal I purchased a pair of full quarters and a pair of trunk floor extensions from AMD. The quarters were scratch and dents from a local dealer that really took only minor hammer and dolly work to straighten and they were less than 50 cents on the dollar. At this point I am well under budget!

Here it is after I removed the rest of the rusty parts from the back half, did some spot sand blasting and priming, now ready for more assembly.

Another shot.

At this point I am going to screw and clamp everything together including the new quarters so that I can bolt the trunk lid on and triple check that all is good up to this point before I take it back apart and get the whole understructure media blasted and primed.

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With some of the money I made back on the extra parts I sold I was able to afford more AMD metal instead of fixing some of the old stuff. I'm toatally excited at this point!!

Another shot, it is starting to look like a car again, even if it is just temporary.